News Porto.

Over 16 thousand athletes will take part in the EDP Porto Marathon, for the first time debuting the Bronze Label Road Race. The starting pistol is set to 9 am, on 4 November, by Sealife Porto. The finish line is at Queimódromo (Porto City Park).

Porto hosts the Messiah by Handel on 11 December at Casa da Música (CdM). The concert is also performed by the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and the ensemble Cappella Amsterdam, as well as the community participation of 200 choir members, who will be seated beside the audience for an interactive concert.

"Shop in Porto" is the new online platform to promote traditional trade in town. This initiative is part of the Porto City Hall strategy to boost and increase the sector attractiveness. The public presentation was held on 25 October at the Rectory of Porto University.

The city of Porto and Bridge Luís I host the newest Bollywood feature film production, on 31 October and on 2 November. The film is sponsored by Porto City Hall via Porto Film Commission, whose main goal is to encourage creativity by providing suitable conditions for audiovisual activities.

Of German origin but rooted in historic Porto, Claus Porto, the "venerable beauty and fragrance house" decided to go international, and what better destination for the "Belle Époque Europe" than the Big Apple?

If you come across the label "safe!n porto" in shop Windows of different stores all around town, know that those settings were awarded the good practices label regarding Porto's nightlife aka Movida. This project is targeted at promoting a safer nightlife, by implementing a variety of strategies dealing with noise, urban cleanliness and sociability.

Numerous bus routes will be supplemented on the night of 31 October and the eve of 1 November to connect to the city centre. The STCP - Porto Public Transport Society, will provide added transport services due to the Halloween celebration.

The publishing house Pierrot le Fou promotes the Galeria Portátil PLF (Pierrot le Fou) project, which accommodates photography and video projects. The exhibit by artist Manuela dos Campos "2 e ½ na curva do vento" [Two and a Half in the Wind's Curve], features an object that takes the shape of a miniature imaginary building, teasing the spectator's notion of privacy and rendering the sense of scale ambiguous. On show at the Foyer of the Grand Auditorium in Rivoli, from 15 November to 16...

Registrations are now open for the last 2018 Pláka Collectives programme - To School out of School offers a short workshop on contemporary studies with focus on collectives, solo performances, informal and institutional organisations that develop their projects in the field of curatorship and thought on culture and present time. Registrations are limited to 20 participants and cost 50 euros per participant. The registration period closes on 15 November.

The collective exhibit "Adorno Político" ["Political Adornment", free translation], curated by Tales Frey, inaugurates at Maus Hábitos, in Porto, on 15 November. The exhibit displays a set of artwork by Brazilian artists that counterweights the way one looks at and makes sense of Brazil. The main goal of this event is to look at Brazil and understand it as one and only country, challenging to think of it "outside the box", through the work of artists such as André Parente, Andressa...