Society

The new jazz club in Porto strikes the right note! The former Cinema Nun'Álvares, located at Rua de Guerra Junqueiro, reopened on 6 April as a jazz club. Expect no less than live jazz music performances as the newly renamed The Hot Five Jazz&Blues Club - Uptown features a resident band.

The most competitive programmers of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) battled for five hours for the title of Programming World Champions, which the Moscow State University won for the second consecutive year, but the Portuguese team from the University of Porto stands out scoring 41st place in the contest.

Duo Litanei, made of cello player Hugo Paiva and pianist Mrika Sefa go on stage at Rivoli, Small Auditorium, on 13 April, at 5pm. This event is jointly organized by the Silva Monteiro Music Programme.

The TEDxPorto 2019 takes place on 6 April at Porto Customs, and it is scheduled to start at 9am, but check in is open as of 7.30am. The event focuses on a vital theme that is both comprehensive and transversal in societies nowadays, at all levels: Trust.

The journey through the Water Pavilion, in the City Park, starts on the ground floor, up the stairs and entering a room where a gigantic orb demonstrates how water is distributed on planet Earth. The rest you have to find out!

The world's leading property agents, founded in the UK in 1855, Savills recently spotlighted Porto in their blog as one of the top market for hotel growth.

The City Hall invites everyone to go and take a look to what is going on in the "Municípios LIPOR" space within Bioblitz, at the Park of Serralves, namely an exhibition of Nature Based Solutions to develop farming activities in urban areas.

Porto is part of a group of 12 European cities that signs today in Genoa the European Pact to reducing to at least 40% carbon emissions by 2030, in line with the EU climate objectives. The city of Porto is committed to go further regarding the carbon footprint and is aiming at 50% carbon emission reductions.

The first flight operated by easyJet and connecting Porto and Malaga took off yesterday from the Invicta at 1.20pm and reached the Spanish city of Málaga at 3.40pm. On 16 June the airliner will launch the Porto-Bordeaux route.

This is the 5th edition of the In Spiritum Festival, which takes place in Porto, from 16 to 19 May and "invites audiences to discover the city" through music, under the motto of water and the Age of Portuguese Discoveries.