Culture

Honoured German Organist and Maestro Franz Hauk will interpret Bach, Mozart, Helmschrott and Vierne at the commemorative concert of the 32nd anniversary of Porto Cathedral Organ which takes place 19 October at 9.30 pm.

"Resistência conjugal" (Marital resistance) is the title of this choreographic installation, with public presentation in the Edifício Transparente, over the weekend. This event will be held 14 and 15 October at 4 pm. This project was developed under the artist-in-residency programme "In Residence" from Porto City Hall.

Manipula#som is a visual concert, inspired in a circus-arts approach, for all ages, featured at Café-Teatro of Campo Alegre, 14 October, at 3 pm and 5 pm, under the FIMP - International Puppet Festival of Porto.

More than 40 invited guests, from around the world, take part in the Forum of the Future, between 5 and 11 November, in Porto, to launch a reflection process on the stability of our planet. This year's edition, themed "Electrical Earth" brings to town some of the most outstanding names in sciences, philosophy or arts, who will participate in conferences, with free entrance in various spaces in the city of Porto.

Loie Fuller, the inventor of "Serpentine dance" is the theme of "Literary Café", hosted by Rivoli Café, 12 October, starting at 6.30 pm. Entrance free. The autobiography "Fifteen Years of a Dancers' life: With Some Account of Her Distinguished Friends" by Loie Fuller depicts the amazing life story of this American dancer who later moved to Paris where she achieved international appreciation.

Rivoli opens doors, once more, to raise awareness against racism and indifference by screening a film festival - MICAR - devoted to combating racism and xenophobia, from 13 to 15 October.

The critical thinking assembly, Metabolic Rifts is the first funded project by the municipal programme "Criatório" and it will begin 14 October, in Serralves. The purpose of this project is to foster critical thinking and to sustain transversal practices and discourses in visual and performing arts. The starting point will be at Serralves Auditorium, at 2.30 pm.

The Biodiversity Gallery - The Live Science Centre hosts as of 17 October "a bit" of the largest "photographic ark" in the world, made of unique images of endangered species. The city of Porto welcomes the International project Photo Ark by photographer Joel Sartore, whose aims is to "connect the right people to commit with biodiversity of our planet and to protect it".

From 10 October to 31 December, the Customs Building in Porto will host the exhibition "The World of Steve McCurry", the multi prized North American photographer, globally-recognized for having photographed Sharbat Gula, "Afghan Girl", which made the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985.

In the context of a protocol signed between Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (TNSC) and Coliseu Porto, opera will again be on stage at Coliseu Porto. "Turandot", by Giacomo Puccini, is the first opera to reset the operatic tradition on 21 October in this iconic concert hall in the city of Porto.