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Porto received two Honourable Mentions at the Access Culture Prize 2018, whose fundamental goal is to promote access - physical, social and intellectual - to culture venues and to the cultural offer.

The Consortium UNorte.pt, comprised by the Universities of Minho and Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, has launched a digital platform to bring closer companies and the academia. This project, titled Balcão UNorte.pt, aggregates and combines information on the universities' skills, services and technologies with the Research, Development and Innovation challenges facing both national and international companies.

CGTN National Television Channel in China, in collaboration with Portuguese News Channel Porto Canal, hosted a special edition on Economic, Trade Relations and Cultural Exchanges between Portugal, namely Porto and China, which included the Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira (on official tour to China), Victor Gao, Vice-President of the Centre for China and Globalization and Wu Jun, Kushun talk Show Host who lives in Porto.

"Fugu" is a performance featured in the context of Trengo - Circus Festival of Porto, at Rivoli, 0n 30 June, at 7 pm. Two clowns live in the world of aristocracy and the power that legitimises it. They savour power as though it were a delicatessen. This is the old dispute between power and Men, a timeless fight that "Fugu" traces through the language of the contemporary clown, a debate that has always existed and will remain in time.

The streets of Porto were filled with joy and excitement to celebrate the Patron Saint, and every plaza and every street corner served dances, broiled sardines, "caldo verde" (Typical Portuguese soup) topped with cascades and happy people.

Sweet saturday and inviting weather called for the beginning of celebrations. Check out Mayor Rui Moreira São João tour!

Porto Municipal Gallery features the curatorial project on different ways of living the night, as of 30 June. Artists Carla Filipe and curator Ulrich Loock were invited to develop an exhibit on the social projects in clubs and pubs as an escape from daily life.

As is tradition, tonight at 9.30 pm, Avenida dos Aliados plays host to the popular marches by Porto parishes. As of 9.30 pm, folk groups dance and march throughout the city's main Avenue.

The film "You're Welcome", by German Director Rebecca Panian, was awarded Best International Fiction, at Porto 7 - International Short Film Festival. This film is based on a true story. A young woman, Olivia, wants to enjoy a peaceful moment, drinking her coffee but she sees herself in the middle of a situation where people start to stir up hatred against refugees - what do you do?

The greatest architectural showcase will take place on 30 June and 1 July in Porto, Gaia and Matosinhos, in 2018. The theme for the 4th edition of Open House Porto 2018 is "Industrial Architecture" and this year Open House Porto "intends to make people look at architecture as a whole, not building by building but rather how a city is organised and created", curator and architect Inês Moreira highlighted.