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Artist and illustrator Daniel Padure was born in Romania. His is the new street art mural, located at Rua da Alegria, next to the Reservatório dos Congregados. We can’t exactly visit the mural at present time, but this is an interesting overview that sure promises that when in-person visits are possible, it will be just as rewarding. For the time being, let’s take time to appreciate art in the world by means of photography.

Get a perspective on the work by Pritzker prize Álvaro Siza Vieira with the online course organised by Porto Municipal Libraries. The course is themed “A arquitetura de Álvaro Siza: textos, projetos e obras” [aka “Architecture by Álvaro Siza: texts, projects and works”). Sessions take place during February, every Thursday, between 6 pm and 8 pm. Application is mandatory and deadline is 2nd February.

After a first taste of Serralves online programme, the SOLE – Serralves On Line Experience is back to lighten moods in mid-winter grim days. The second lockdown in the country very much asks for everyone to stay indoors all times possible; thus, Serralves is offering the #SERRALVESONLINEEXPERIENCE, the optimal winter “pick me up” suggestions, like it did during the first confinement, in March and April 2020.

Nouriel Roubini, American economist and former consultant in the Clinton and Obama Administrations, was the guest speaker during the QSP Summit 2021 warm-up, held on 28th January, via videoconference, whose audience gathered at Super Bock Arena – Pavilhão Rosa Mota.

With this lovely weather for ducks, why not find that nice spot in your couch, or anywhere else indoors and learn a bit more about sparrows? This week’s episode of “De binóculos no sofá” (aka, “with your binoculars in the sofa”), a programme by the Environment Team at Porto City Hall that explains the origin of some popular proverbs about this little bird, the sparrow, which can easily be spotted in the eaves of houses and in the edges of roofs, or even in the city’s gardens.

Worsening of weather conditions, starting this Friday, 29th January, halts car traffic at Av. Dom Carlos I, in the seafront. Traffic is prohibited starting at 10 pm. Restriction to circulations is to be lifted as soon as weather conditions permit. The situation is re-assed on 30th January.

Anchorage Digital Bank, the first company to provide crypto custody and safe trading, is hiring in Porto. The company, founded in 2017 by Portuguese Diogo Mónica and American Nathan McCauley, is now regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

The student residence Milestone Porto Asprela achieved the LEED gold certification or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The building, which was formally inaugurated on 19th November 2019, is the first in the Iberian Peninsula to earn this international certification, in the Hospitality typology.

Blip is currently hiring (again!). There are 70 open vacancies that can lead you to finding a job at this Portuguese Porto-based technological company that is “a top of the edge software engineering company”. Even amid the pandemic, Blip did not stop and is looking for candidates to fulfil 70 work posts.

TMP’s online programming of the coming weeks includes the premiere of "F…" by the company theatre Estrutura; a new session of “Quintas de Leitura”, the streaming of the Understage cycle and a virtual meeting between the Teatro Experimental do Porto and the Chilean company Teatro La Maria.