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"This is the story of how innovation drives the future of our cities" says Rui Moreira, Mayor of Porto. The book, entitled "Porto Start & Scale Guide", reflects the strong commitment of the city of Porto to consolidate itself as a living lab for inovation and talent.

Cinema continues to play a paramount role in the cultural program "Cultura em Expansão" (Culture in Expansion). This Sunday, in the Aldoar auditorium, the session will include the works of three emblematic directors of silent films: Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin and Georges Méliès.

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.

The Municipal Public Library of Porto hosts, from December 2016 till July 2017, a chess workshop for the general public.

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.

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.

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.

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!".

The Teatro Experimental do Porto presents, in an absolute debut, "What A Rogue Am I!", on Friday, 18 and 19, at Teatro Rivoli.

João Sousa Cardoso presents in world premiere at the Teatro Rivoli from Thursday, 17 to Saturday 19, "Os Pescadores" (The Fishermen).