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Porto Customs Congress centre plays host to the 2nd Annual Edition of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum, on 13th September. This event is supported by Porto City Hall, organised by NGI (Next Generation Internet), and promoted by The European Commission. The main topics on the agenda are the trust factor on the Internet, social artificial intelligence, Internet software, decentralised data governance, block chain and network infrastructure.

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.

Apart from bargain sales, a book fair is also a place of cultural significance, where people interact with written, sung or spoken words. Novelty this year at Porto Book Fair is the project "Cabine de Escalas", which offers publishing space to small scale publishers.

Porto hosts the 2nd edition of BEAST - International Film Festival on 26 September and this year the festival is devoted to Ukraine. The four-day event features special sessions and competition sessions, as well as masterclasses and workshops that will be held in different places all over the city of Porto, namely Cinema Passos Manuel, Municipal Library Almeida Garrett, Casa das Artes, and OKNA Espaço Cultural, the headquarters of this year's Festival.

The Synchronicity's Open Call is looking for a European Project aimed at supporting the development of smart solutions/and or services to address urban development challenges. Porto City Hall provides founding worth three million euros to support the best proposals, which should be implemented in 2019. Applications are ongoing till 30th September.

Porto Book Fair 2018 features a Cinema Cycle that is forged on the right to protest, the idea of insurgence in society towards a rule of state. The cinematographic representation on show at the Fair deals with the topic of revolt, rebellion and the valid objection of society and authority.

TAP strategy regarding the city of Porto appears to be shifting, after the airliner had removed routes in 2015. The company is majority State owned and following the previous decision of services reduction from Porto Airport, the new administration has decided to reverse this strategy and has announced new routes, starting next year.

The starting point of the spoken word sessions at Porto Book Fair is the correlation between the written and the sung word. Spoken word is a performance art that is word based. That said, Spoken Word sessions are an excellent contribution to the Book Fair's activities programme. The programmed Spoken Word sessions are scheduled for 9, 15, 21 and 22 September.