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Musicians Lorde, A$AP Rocky and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will headline the 7th edition of NOS Primavera Sound Festival. The 7th edition of the music festival will take place from 7 to 9 June in the City Park (Parque da Cidade), and artists such as The War on Drugs, Arca, Father John Misty, Mogwai, Jamie XX, Fever Ray, Tyler, The Creator, Vince Staples and Thundercat will be on stage.

Portugal Lovers celebrates its 6th anniversary with two editions of Urban Market, jointly with Hard Club and with the support of Porto city Hall. The market will run from 9 to 11 February and from 23 to 25 February. Entrance is free and the event takes place between 11 am and 7 pm.

Vivarium Festival opens in March to engage us on the following question: How will the digital age be like for humankind? According to curator Marianne Baillot, the current moment of cultural expansion in Porto and the city's commitment to the Smart City model, provide the framework for this event that spans through artistic activities to embrace larger contexts, including cybernetics, exhibits, music, and debates.

The Fantasporto has been celebrating the film industry for the past 38 years. This year, the "Fantas" honours the world of cinema, under the motto "Grande Cinema do Mundo" [World Film Industry]. This years'edition will kick-off on 20 February and it will debate ethics, honour Lauro António and bring to the Rivoli a selection of almost 120 films from more than 60 countries.

The "Anuário" [yearbook] takes as its starting point the intention to document and to examine artistic activity in Porto for a year. The exhibit constitutes one of the pillars for municipal platform PLÁKA, focused on contemporary art production in Porto. This display is supervised by the newly appointed Director of Serralves Museum, João Ribas and by Guilherme Blanc, Assistant of Mayor of Porto for Culture.

The Systems and Computer Engineering Institute of Porto (INESC TEC) leads the European Project which aims to develop a mobile application that helps users save power by changing some of their daily habits.

Marco Martins often observed how actors would indeed spend the in-between moments of shows, be it at lunchtime or during breaks, and how they would memorize the lines for a TV show, a soap opera, or a TV commercial, so this show was put together to materialise, so to speak, the curiosity and the inquisitiveness on how actors spend their time backstage.

The Cité des Métiers in Porto is a project promoted by Porto City Hall within the scope of employability and entrepreneurship and it is setting presence at the Cité des Métiers International network, which will take place in Paris on 8 and 9 February. The project "Cité des Métiers" is jointly managed by different stakeholder organisations that work as a resource centre with the aim of providing professional guidance and advice on one's professional future. The Cité des Métiers is run accordin...

Porto city Hall challenges innovation and entrepreneurship communities to start the enrolment process of ScaleUp Porto., aimed at supporting Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. The overall amount devoted to the selected proposals is seventy thousand euros.

The exhibit "Álvaro Lapa: No tempo todo" [Álvaro Lapa: All of Time], which gathers the most thorough retrospective work of the artist (Évora, 1939 - Porto, 2006) ever presented, opens on 8 February at the Serralves Museum. Self-taught artist and writer, Lapa first studied Law and a couple of years later he pursues studies in Philosophy, travelling to Paris where he engages with surrealism artists.