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The Municipality of Porto has established a network of voluntary restaurants in 2016. This policy is aimed at providing assistance to homeless or people in need of a hot meal. Former Joaquim Urbano Hospital is now able to work as the operation centre of this network of restaurants that helps homeless in Porto, by providing a kitchen that will prepare all the meals for this voluntary restaurants network.

Porto City Hall adopted unanimously on 18 September grant support to artistic creation at international level, through the Shuttle Programme. This form of support started April last year and it will be a permanent call till next December.

Porto state schools students of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education directed two films in the context of the Municipal Educational Programme Porto de Crianças [Porto of Children, free translation], which have been selected for two international festivals. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the work carried out by state schools in Porto.

The Theatre Campo Alegre new cinema season is devoted to the French Cinema and the Grand Masters of film (1930-1960). If you got longer than a weekend in Porto, prepare to get comfy at Theatre Campo Alegre, as for forty days, from 1 September till 10 October.

The Poveiros Square presents the shortest performance of the I Porto International Circus Festival. The Toron Blues Company features "Rouge", a 15 minute act, short but intense, created and performed by Clémentine Lamouret and Elsa Caillat. The streets will also be enlivened by the Portuguese Company Marimbondo, the only one to perform a "Show in motion". For around 30 minutes, the "Banda Rumtatá" will deliver joy and high spirits to passers-by, featuring circus music, dixieland, juggling,...

Jewellery exudes significance and elegance, be it the pieces that average people can afford to the extravagant collections that only the elite few can aspire to. Collectiva, an independent platform of author jewellery, has summoned designers from all over the world to a unique show of contemporary jewellery in Porto.

The twelfth edition of Porto Half Marathon is one of the races to look forward this year in Porto. The starting pistol will be on 16th September, at 10 am. This sports event should bring together 12 to 13 thousand participants, from 40 different nationalities.

Coliseu Porto Ageas New Season features a uniquely diverse programme spanning International Circus Festival, a Fall Concert by Mário Laginha on the piano and Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the opera La Traviata, the traditional Christmas Circus, contemporary performances, ballets and concerts.

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange) is a 1936 film directed by Jean Renoir portraying an idyllic picture of a socialist France. It is about a publish house that becomes a cooperative.

Every Thursday evening, the Romantic Museum opens doors "After Hours", offering visitors tours to various museum facilities, over a six-month period, displaying period art & furnishings, along with gardens offering scenic river views.