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"Shop in Porto" is the new online platform to promote traditional trade in town. This initiative is part of the Porto City Hall strategy to boost and increase the sector attractiveness. The public presentation was held on 25 October at the Rectory of Porto University.

The city of Porto and Bridge Luís I host the newest Bollywood feature film production, on 31 October and on 2 November. The film is sponsored by Porto City Hall via Porto Film Commission, whose main goal is to encourage creativity by providing suitable conditions for audiovisual activities.

Of German origin but rooted in historic Porto, Claus Porto, the "venerable beauty and fragrance house" decided to go international, and what better destination for the "Belle Époque Europe" than the Big Apple?

If you come across the label "safe!n porto" in shop Windows of different stores all around town, know that those settings were awarded the good practices label regarding Porto's nightlife aka Movida. This project is targeted at promoting a safer nightlife, by implementing a variety of strategies dealing with noise, urban cleanliness and sociability.

Numerous bus routes will be supplemented on the night of 31 October and the eve of 1 November to connect to the city centre. The STCP - Porto Public Transport Society, will provide added transport services due to the Halloween celebration.

The publishing house Pierrot le Fou promotes the Galeria Portátil PLF (Pierrot le Fou) project, which accommodates photography and video projects. The exhibit by artist Manuela dos Campos "2 e ½ na curva do vento" [Two and a Half in the Wind's Curve], features an object that takes the shape of a miniature imaginary building, teasing the spectator's notion of privacy and rendering the sense of scale ambiguous. On show at the Foyer of the Grand Auditorium in Rivoli, from 15 November to 16...

Registrations are now open for the last 2018 Pláka Collectives programme - To School out of School offers a short workshop on contemporary studies with focus on collectives, solo performances, informal and institutional organisations that develop their projects in the field of curatorship and thought on culture and present time. Registrations are limited to 20 participants and cost 50 euros per participant. The registration period closes on 15 November.

The collective exhibit "Adorno Político" ["Political Adornment", free translation], curated by Tales Frey, inaugurates at Maus Hábitos, in Porto, on 15 November. The exhibit displays a set of artwork by Brazilian artists that counterweights the way one looks at and makes sense of Brazil. The main goal of this event is to look at Brazil and understand it as one and only country, challenging to think of it "outside the box", through the work of artists such as André Parente, Andressa...

Twenty years on, Porto celebrates Saramago's Literature Nobel at Almeida Garrett Municipal Library, located at the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal. The event is entrance free till room capacity. It is scheduled to start at 9 pm.

Porto City Hall and the Embassy of The United States of America are organising an innovative talent support programme. As such, the band Matuto will be in town to deliver a workshop on arts promotion. The band will perform after the workshop.