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This year, Porto Book fair was not all business as usual: amid a pandemic, the Municipality of Porto had to sort of reinvent the event (pun intended) and the city still got its most relevant literary festival. The Fair kicked off on 28th August and it concludes this weekend, on 13th September. See what you can still savour before it ends.

Porto City Hall, via Ágora - Cultura e Desporto, has organised vibrant getaways in town, this summer, and this 13th September is no exception. The programme includes sports activities, such as fencing, pat cycles, and also street entertainment with visits by clowns, Earth Beings and strange cooks.

The masterpieces of Akira Kurosawa, one of the most acknowledged Japanese filmmakers in the West, are on display at Campo Alegre Municipal Theatre, from 17th September till 30th October. Seven films, in digital restored copies, five of which were never presented in a movie theatre in Portugal, will be screened at Porto Municipal Theatre - Campo Alegre.

Tomorrow, 12th September is opening day at Porto Municipal Gallery with the inauguration of the exhibitions "Prémio Paulo Cunha e Silva -- 2.nd edition" and "Waves and Whirlpools". The exhibits are access free and will be on display until 15th November. Operating hours are from Tuesdays to Sunday, between 10am and 6pm.

"A location for every story", produced by Porto City Hall and directed by André Tentugal, won the Terres Travel Festival 2020, during the vent held in Tarragona, Spain. The film won the Promotional productions of Film Commissions and Film Offices category.

The Ars Electronica Porto Garden by FNDMT is happening in Porto as of today and it brings to the city of makers roundtables and debates on how to "map the new world". The festival runs from 9th September to 13th September and the agenda is streamed online.

The "Noites no Pátio" [something like "Evenings in the yard"], at the Museum of the UP are on for a second edition, this month of September. Casa Comum of the University of Porto, which organises this initiative, has prepared an entire month of September (as in July), with an agenda to meet all tastes and to content all age groups, starting this 9th September.

The Municipality of Porto just launched the project "Study in Porto". The main goal is to centralize in one online platform bountiful information where new students in town can learn things about the city and better adjust and adapt to a new reality both as a student and someone from Porto.

Expect no less than a vibrant getaway in Porto, on 6th September that includes sports activities, such as fencing, pat cycles, and also street entertainment with visits by clowns and puppet shows, inline skates and minigolf, organised by Ágora, Porto City Hall municipal Company, in line with the health measures issued by the DGS.