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KastroKriola, written by the Cabo Verdean playwright Caplan Neves, is the remake of the work “Castro”, short for “Tragédia muy sentida e Elegante de Dona Inês de Castro”, by António Ferreira, written in 1587. Caplan Neves presents the text in creole from Cabo Verde, and tries to unveil how a classical text will symbolically resonate in today’s Cabo Verde.

The Campus extends for exactly 900m2. The former Escola Básica José Gomes Ferreira, the classrooms and even outdoor spaces transformed into creative studios and spaces that will be utilized by the city’s artistic community. The Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva is the new residency centre for performing arts and the doors are open.

The Jardim da Água, located in the Jardins Nova Sintra is back on 12 June, following an entire year of closed doors. Now, it’s time to return to this enchanted place.

The Clérigos Tower and Museum host the exhibition “Só, neste Porto só!” [“Alone, in this Porto alone”, free translation], a photographic record of the city, with the goal of showcasing the Invicta during the first major lockdown in the country, last year in March.

The repairs and improvements at the Rua do Dr. Vasco Valente, in the parish of Ramalde are now completed. The intervention aimed to rehabilitate and to modernize street space and the surroundings of the residential area, namely pavements and pedestrian access, as well as road signposting.

The Portuguese Symphonic Band perform at Casa da Música, on 27 June to celebrate the American harmonies.

The Porta-Jazz inspiring festival is back in Porto from 23 to 25 July. These will be three-full days aimed at delivering a wellbeing of music festivals to both musicians and audiences. The new meeting point is the Gardens of the Palácio de Cristal, as it was originally planned to take place at the Rivoli Theatre, last February.

The scene is set: from 8 to 12 June there will be a team of amazing storytellers that will make it through the University of Porto; there will be inspiring stories, life moments to hold on to, collective imagined scenarios, poetry, even, or music and stand-up comedy by former students and teachers that have a strong liaison with the place they used to call “home” and thus create the unique and first U. Porto Fest.

One way of celebrating São João can very much be the voting on your preferred São João Shop Window under the S. João 2021 Shop Window Competition. Applications for Best São João Window, in the following categories “Best Window Friend of the Environment” and “Best Shop window elected by the Public” concluded on 2 June. Now it is time to have your say as regards the Best São João Windows in town, as there will be a voting by the jury and a voting by the general public, which run from 9 to 21 June.

The cinema cycle "Há Filmes na Baixa" is back in Porto from 9 to 22 June and features some of the most iconic films, in collaboration with Porto/Post/Doc. Highlight to the two cult movies that will take to the silver screen at Passos Manuel this June: Ran and Apocalipse Now.