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The "Porto Architecture Guide 1942-2017" is launched today at 7 pm. The event takes place in the main lobby of Porto City Hall. This book will guide you through more than 200 reference projects in the urban landscape of the city of Porto, which exhaustively portrays the modern movement till the present time.

Casa da Música and Global Platform for Syrian Students jointly organise a concert of solidarity for Syrian students on 4 February, starting at 6 pm. Pianists Mário Laginha and Pedro Burmester will take the stage at Sala Suggia, in Casa da Música, to raise funds to the Global Platform for Syrian Students, aimed particularly at providing emergency assistance to these students, who have been prevented of pursuing their university education on account of war.

As long ago as 1891, brave men from Porto stood against the centralised government that concentrated most of the political and economic decisions in the capital city of Lisbon. Their efforts were in vain...or not! As up to this day, the ideals they were fighting stand true: the fight for equality and the right to determine one's own destiny.

TEDxPorto is back on 13 April and the talk will be on "Is it Natural?" The coming TEDxPorto edition brings novelties over a two-day event. The first day of the conference consists of workshops and the second comprises the TED Talks. This event takes place at Casa da Música.

The first days of February will be Blues days in Porto. Swing Station Dance School features the 5th edition of the Atlantic Blues Festival, at Casa da Música from 1 to 4 February.

The City Life Index has quizzed 15,000 people from 32 cities all across the globe to discover the most thrilling cities in the world. The targeted consultation was conducted between December 2017 and January 2018. The results of this comprehensive global survey are as follows: Porto (Portugal) is second only to Chicago in the United States.

Port City Hall hosts the first "World Heritage Sites in the Atlantic Area" event on 30 January at Casa do Infante, at 2.30 pm., in the framework of the "AtlaS-WH - Heritage in the Atlantic Area: Sustainability of the Urban World Heritage" project, funded by the INTERREG - Atlantic Area programme.

The seaport of Leixões predicts setting new record figures on cruise activity already this year, with 113 stopovers and over 120 thousand confirmed passengers with year-on-year increases of 13% and 26%.

"Circolando" by André Braga and Cláudia Figueiredo debuts the dance show "Raio X" on 1st February, at Campo Alegre Municipal Theatre, starting at 9.30 pm. Artistic Directors André Braga and Cláudia Figueiredo launch the challenge: inquiring on the ethereal and weightlessness of things, where "lights echoe", "interstitial whites", and the "resonance of what's visible".

The 1st Literacy Summit takes place at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto, between 1 and 3 November 2018 and its fundamental goal is to focus on literacy taking a much broader view by addressing technique, science and technology. Applications can be submitted till 19 March.