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Christmas season at Porto featuring nearly two million illuminating LEDs
Christmas lights will be inaugurated in the city of Porto on December 1st, at 5.30 p.m. This year there will be more street lighting (57% more ornaments compared to last year) and even more streets with Xmas lighting. Christmas decoration will be illuminated with LED technology this year, enabling savings of about 80% in energy consumption compared to conventional lighting.
Chess workshop at the Municipal Public Library of Porto
The Municipal Public Library of Porto hosts, from December 2016 till July 2017, a chess workshop for the general public.
"Os Pescadores" by João Sousa Cardoso at Rivoli Teatre
The Rivoli Theatre features "Os Pescadores" by João Sousa Cardoso. "Technique is fantastic, but only if it is seen glancing at the primordial" says the director.
The Enigma of Clérigos under review in the series of debates "An Object and Its Discourses"
Since the first edition, in 2014, the annual program of the series of debates "One Object and Its Discourses per Week", Porto City Hall launches a challenge to the city, to reveal itself through weekly conversations around its heritage.
"Economy, Art, Europe" on debate at Mosteiro São Bento da Vitória
Next Friday, the 18th, at 3.30 p.m., the São Bento da Vitória Monastery is host to the round table "Economy, Art, Europe". The initiative, placed within the UTE Conflict Zones program framework and co-organized by the São João National Theater (TNSJ) and the Union des Théâtres is attended by the Czech economist and author of the bestseller "The Economy of Good and Evil", Tomás Sedlácek, considered one of the greatest talents of this generation in the field of economics.
Teatro Experimental do Porto premieres "What a rogue am I!" at Rivoli
The Teatro Experimental do Porto presents, in absolute debut, on the 18th (at 9.30 p.m.) and the 19th (at 7 p.m.), at the Grande Auditorium Manoel de Oliveira at Teatro Rivoli, "What a rogue am I!".
TEP presents What A Rogue Am I!
The Teatro Experimental do Porto presents, in an absolute debut, "What A Rogue Am I!", on Friday, 18 and 19, at Teatro Rivoli.
"Os Pescadores" on stage at the Rivoli Theatre
João Sousa Cardoso presents in world premiere at the Teatro Rivoli from Thursday, 17 to Saturday 19, "Os Pescadores" (The Fishermen).
Tender for renovation of the Market of Bolhão
After the end of the underground works taking place next to the Market of Bolhão, the renovation of the building is set to begin in 2017.
Openings in Miguel Bombarda
The sixth and last cycle of 2016 of the Simultaneous Openings in Miguel Bombarda was held yesterday.