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The Book Market edition of 2018 will run from 1 to 18 March, featuring around 165 thousand titles, magazines, text books, comics, fiction books, cookery and travel books, and also antique books. The Book Market is organised by Calendário de Letras Publishing House. It is opened daily, between 10 am and 8 pm. Entrance is free.

The House Museum Guerra Junqueiro opens the exhibition "Encontros" featuring visual art works by controversial German Nobel Prize winner for Literature Günter Grass (1927-2015), on 2 March.

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) has announced the setting up of an application in Spanish used in the treatment of respiratory disease, an investment of 50 thousand euros. The application labelled INSPIRERS was developed at the FMUP, jointly with researchers from the Research Centre in Technologies and Health Services (CINTESIS).

The National theatre São João (TNSJ) will feature a cycle of theatre and music sessions devoted to one of the greatest writers in Portuguese Literature, Camilo Castelo Branco. His writing, which is centred in the local and the picturesque, is generally affiliated with the Romantic tradition. This cycle marks 193 years of Camilo Castelo Branco birth. It starts on 28 February and runs till 3 March.

The city of Porto is committed to claim its share of green spaces and thus improve both human and environmental health. Expanding green roofs and Native Forests, covered with trees or indigenous shrubs, in public and private spaces, foster the network of urban gardens, and the construction of water courses, are some of the ongoing actions.

"Loving Vincent", by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, is on show at Municipal Theatre Campo Alegre with a daily display till 28 February, starting at 6.30 pm. The film is one of the first fully painted animated feature film, based on 130 works of this great Dutch painter and revolves around Vincent Van Gogh's life, his relationship with his brother Theo and the circumstances of his death. Van Gogh was shot in the stomach at close range; If it was a suicide attempt or not, it still remains a...

Architect Issa Diabaté, based in Côte d'Ivoire, opens the International Conference Cycle "Contemporary Architecture Contexts: 5 Continents", on 28 February. This is an initiative of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and its duration will extend to the coming months.

The 3rd edition of the "If you have a garden, we have a tree for you" programme, sponsored by Porto City Hall will run till 21 March. The main purpose of this initiative is to support citizens, companies and institutions in the city regarding the planting of trees and bushes in their gardens and patios.

"Porto City Hall is a unifying force within the city, which holds culture and knowledge as the main factors towards a civic experience that is open and world driven". The municipality was awarded the Merit Medal by the Polytechnic of Porto. Mayor Rui Moreira received the medal on behalf of the City Hall, in the context of the celebration of the 33rd anniversary of the Higher Education Institution, which took place at the Superior Institute of Engineering of Porto.

Porto d'Artes Cultural Association promotes today the monthly session of the Cycle "Sextas de Micro-Curtas", [Fridays with Shorts] with journalist and author Luís Bizarro Borges. The cycle features the screening of short films that last less than five minutes, "short in time but verbose in content", according to the Association. The event is access free and it is scheduled to start at 10 pm, at Rua Padre António Vieira, 76.