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Porto Municipal Theatre (TMP) features an online cycle to debate the future of performing arts during and after the pandemic. The cycle "Nada ficou no lugar, e agora?" features the second talk happens on 25th June, and the theme is "Management: challenges in a pandemic world"The talk starts at 6.30pm and it is streamed live on TMP's Facebook.

The mural painting by Vhils in Porto pays tribute to health professionals. It shows faces covered by face masks. The eyes are how we all communicate, after all, these days and these eyes show us courage and determination. The mural is located in the entrance to the visits wing of the São João Hospital in Porto.

The Casa Comum of the University of Porto reopens today, 22nd June, after being closed for over three months, under the lockdown to stop the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Starting at 6pm, the casa Comum inaugurates two exhibitions and offers a piano concert, at 6.30pm. Entrance is free, but previous appointment is mandatory, subject to room capacity under the pandemic preventive measures issued by the DGS.

A new urbanism is on the way in Porto, and Saturday was the first day that pedestrians got to enjoy urban car free zones. From 8am on 20th June to 8pm on 21st June, public space was just that, in sixteen streets in Downtown Porto and in the Historic Centre of the city. Public thoroughfares invited to added quality of life, and this demand for city districts to be made pedestrian is ever more relevant under the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

The nice sunny weather is back in town and so are the open air training activities. Brace yourselves, gear up and head to Palácio de Cristal, to Parque Oriental, to Pasteleira Park or to the City Park.

Porto Book Fair is back to the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal, from 28th August to 13th September. The Fair registered 68 applications of interest, which means that over 80 publishing entities, namely publishers, booksellers, distributors and used bookstores will participate in the fair, totalling 120 stands.

Street celebrations are cancelled, so this year the way to party is staying at home, with all the fun and merriment that such moments can also bring; to brighten moods all night long, Rádio Festival ensures a special broadcasting that will go from the early morning of the 23rd June till the first light of day of the 24th June.

Starting tomorrow, 20th June, there will be sixteen streets in Porto Downtown area and Porto Historic centre that will be transformed into temporary pedestrian areas, between 8am on Saturdays and 8pm on Sundays. Alongside the municipal plan to regain public space, there is a pilot project of 88 areas for the sharing of soft mobility means of transport.

In the first 15 days of June alone, over 1200 people were tested in Porto. This information was indicated to Porto.pt by ARS Norte, which demonstrates that the fact that there are no new positive Covid-19 cases in Porto is not the result of the shortage of test performing but that health authorities, hospitals, institutions the Municipality and mostly citizens were able to stop the outbreak of the pandemic, for the time being, by means of active control measures.

This weekend don't miss the double sessions of films "That Obscure Object of Desire" and "The Exterminating Angel", on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Buñuel worked in France, Mexico and Spain. When he died, at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times mentioned the words "iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary".