Society

The "Astray" projects unfolds in two moments in time; the beginning is on 12 December with the opening of the "Prologue" at Kunsthalle Lissabon, at 6.30 pm. And the second will be at Porto Municipal Gallery, introducing the body of works at Porto Municipal Gallery, from 16 March to 19 May 2019, curated by Sofia Lemos.

Students from Fonte da Moura Elementary School in Porto won Best Film Award at the ENIMATION Festival, which was held in Slovenia. "A Dança das Máscaras" ["The Dance of the Masks", free translation], an animated film directed by 3rd grade students of the said school in the academic year 2017/18, was awarded, the first prize in the category "MINI - films directed by children up to 10 years old" at the International Children and Youth Film Festival ENIMATION.

The 9th edition of Allariz International Garden Festival awarded three Portuguese landscape architects, Alumnae of FCUP- Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, who designed the most voted garden by the public on the banks of the Arnoia River, in the town of Allariz, province of Ourense, the Autonomous Community of Galicia, Spain.

UPTEC - the Science and Technology Park of the University of Porto participates in the event "A Transdisciplinary Approach to Social Innovation", in New York, on 12 December. The goal is to bring together social entrepreneurs from different countries to develop new ideas and skills and to create a digital platform.

CGTN (China Global Television Network) was in Porto to interview Mayor Rui Moreira. The topics on the table were China-Portugal relations, Chinese investment in Porto, how can Porto attract more Chinese people, Port Wine market in China, and how to improve mutual understanding.

The main lobby at São Bento Station hosts another edition of charity Christmas. The "Arca de Natal" [Xmas Ark] will run on 12 and 13 December to make you consider buying gifts that give back.

Porto City hall hosts a conference on Human Rights today at 9.30 pm, at the Town Hall main Foyer. This event is entrance free and it is held in the framework of the 70th anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on 10 December 1948.

"Joan Miró and the Death of Painting" is the new exhibit on display at Serralves, from 12 December till 3 March 2019. The exhibit is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri and it focusses on the artistic work by the Catalan painter in 1973, when Joan Miró, aged 80, was preparing an important historic retrospective at the Grand Palais, in Paris.

The Serralves Foundation and the illustrator Fedra Santos present the book "O Parque - Biodiversidade em Serralves" [The Park - Biodiversity in Serralves, free translation], on 8 December, at 5 pm.

The Puppet Theatre of Porto presents the tale "Cinderella", in the context of the programme "Foco Famílias", on 15 and 16 December, at 11 am, at Campo Alegre Café-Teatro. Beware: this is not Perrault or Grimm's Cinderella, but rather an anachronistic version that includes characters of different fairy tales.