Culture

Award yourself the PRESENT or offer it to beloved ones. Porto Municipal Theatre launches "the PRESENT", meaning you have already solved the Xmas presents puzzle; offer two tickets to enjoy benefits in the Municipal Theatre programming, namely at Rivoli and Campo Alegre Theatre.

Daniel Cunha performs at the Palácio da Bolsa and presents the "Solitude" CD with pieces by romantic composer Alfredo Napoleão (1852-1917), which had never been recorded. The concert is scheduled for 9.30 pm at Palácio da Bolsa. Access is free but limited to room capacity. Ticket reservations should be made via phone number 925 978 070.

The "A-Bomb Exhibition, Hiroshima and Nagasaki", which was inaugurated on 2 October, and on display at the main foyer of Porto City Hall, concludes today. 73 years after the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bombings, during World War II, the Japanese people want to spread a message of peace and urge nations to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

The Porto/Post/Doc Festival brings the world in film, once again, featuring fiction that represents reality from Russian nationalism and Peruvian ethnography to Transsexuality in Brazil and prostitution in Japan. The festival kicked-off on 24 November and concludes on 2 December.

"Holodomor" or Famine: Ukraine 1932-1933 - the Genocide of the Ukrainian People" is the title of the exhibition on display at the Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão, located at Carlos Alberto Square, till 15 December. Entrance free.

Porto hosts the Porta-Jazz Festival from 1 to 9 December, all over town, offering 30 concerts that will bring new narratives in Jazz through premieres and unique artistic partnerships. There will be school meetings, workshops and jam sessions to promote exchanges and networking between Jazz musicians.

"S. Bento Porto Station and the work by Jorge Colaço" is the exhibit on show in the main lobby of this centennial railway station in Porto, which can be visited till 3 December.

The galleries Nuno Centeno and Quadrado Azul from Porto are part of the Portuguese delegation to the 38th International Fair of Contemporary Art in the Spanish capital, the ARCOmadrid.

This coming weekend is the last chance to visit the Parallel Programme of the "Curveball Memory" and "Musonautas, Visões & Avarias" exhibitions, on show at Porto Municipal Gallery, offering several free activities.

Registrations for the last 2018 Pláka Collectives programme - To School out of School- closes next Thursday, on 15th November.