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Puppets are back on stage and will have a documentation centre
From Friday on FIMP - Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto (Puppets Porto International Festival) comes back for its 32nd Edition. 21 shows will be presented, with 38 presentations.
Porto’s Marathon is on the road again with a new route and features
Back on the road after a virtual format in 2020, due to the pandemic situation, Porto’s Marathon will have a new route for the 42 Km event.
Porto’s International Queer Film Festival introduces a new competitive section
Porto’s International Queer Film Festival is currently ongoing until next Saturday, October 16th.
Portugal Fashion new edition kicks off with an approach to Africa in the agenda
The 49th Portugal Fashion Edition started yeaterday in Porto. Until October the 16th, the national fashion promotional event comes back to presential fashion shows and brings along several news, being the most relevant the partnership with Afreximbank, an investment bank committed to the promotion of Africa’s cultural and creative economy.
Marketing’s Giant creates skills centre in Porto and is looking to hire 200 people
One of the biggest world experts in analytics and brand consulting will invest five million dollars (more than 4.3 million euros) in Porto. Kantar’s goal is to create a regional skills centre that, until the end of 2022, will employ about two hundred people.
The magic lingers on in Jardim Botânico do Porto until the end of the month
The immersive experience “Magical Garden”, seen in Jardim Botânico do Porto, was extended until October 31.
Miró’s collection arrived successfully to Porto and it’s in exhibition at the renewed Casa de Serralves
Fundação de Serralves opened Joan Miró’s exhibition : Signs and Symbols, on Friday`s evening, at the renewed Casa de Serralves, whose renovation works, conducted by Álvaro Siza Vieira, were funded by Porto council.
Porto represented in the biggest Real Estate event in Europe
Porto will be present, for the second time, in the real estate investment fair Expo Real, in Munich, Germany, from 11 – 13 October.
Tickets already available for the biggest music industry event worldwide
More than 260 artists worldwide, 520 record labels and distributers, four hundred government and educational institutions, 800 agents, more than 610 managers and 300 producers, and nearly 1250 companies from more than 50 countries, are going to be in Porto for WOMEX – Worldwide Music Expo 2021. The biggest music industry event will take place on 27 -31 October and the tickets for the concerts are already available.
Porto voted one of the best cities in Europe in 2021 by the Condé Nast Traveler
Porto appears in second place on the ranking of the best cities in Europe 2021, a voting carried out by the readers of the respected magazine Condé Nast Traveler. It’s the only Portuguese city in the top 10.