Culture

The "Quatro Elementos" exhibition catalogue, by Porto City Hall and designed by Pedro Nora, was selected to take part in the international annual competition "Best Book Design from all over the World". The Quatro Elementos exhibition was organised by Porto City Hall and it was curated by Ana Luísa Amaral (Water), Eduarda Neves (Earth), Pedro Faro (Fire) and Nuno Faria (Air).

From 1 to 31 August, Casa da Música offers the cycle "Portugal A Gosto", featuring national and traditional music, with evening concerts, giving materiality to urban and rural sounds.

The Casa da Música hosts The Paris Boys Choir, on 24th July, at 9 pm. This concert is entrance free, but previous ticket collection is required.

This morning, Terreiro da Sé was the place of choice of this amazing crowd. Eight hundred people armed with notebooks, pencils, water colours, pencils, poster paint and mere inspiration surrendered to the "amazing vistas" of the city of Porto and "the extraordinary traits of such a unique city".

The most promising piano players of the world are gathered at Casa da Música and at the Manuel António da Mota Foundation in the context of the Santa Cecilia Piano Contest. This competition is organised by "Curso de Música Silva Monteiro" and the winners of this 20th edition will be announced on 22 July, at 6 pm, at Casa da Música.

The 9th International Urban Sketchers Symposium starts this week in Porto, from 18 to 21 July, 2018 at the Customs Building in Porto. Urban sketchers of all experiences and backgrounds will gather to share their knowledge and to network.

The latest edition of "Urban Art in billboards", is all over town in urban billboards, till 17th July. The AMIarte, cultural centre of the AMI Foundation, based in Porto organises this exhibition, themed "Ten years later..." as the project marks its 10th anniversary,

The 27th edition of the cycle "Jazz in the Park" kicked off on 7th July. Rui Eduardo Paes is in charge of the programme and the cycle for the entire month of July features three concerts, including two international projects and one national performance.

The Paralelo Programme in the context of Carla Filipe and Ulrich Loock's exhibition, "O ontem morreu hoje, o hoje morre amanhã", kicks off Friday, 6th July with the screening of four films by Steina and Woody Vasulka, presented by Margarida Mendes, at 10 pm. Entrance is free.

Ingmar Bergman was born 100 years ago, on 14th July in Uppsala, in Sweden. Porto and Lisbon are preparing a tribute to one of the greatest filmmakers of the Twentieth century, from 11 October till 15 November 2018.