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The Forum of the Future is held this year from 4 to 10 November, featuring over 50 guests from 17 countries. Among invited speakers are Lebanese artist Ali Cherri and Russian activist Nadya Tolonnikova, Pussy Riot leader. All events are participation free.

"Porto is a magnet for investment", said Ricardo Valente, Porto City Hall Councillor for Economy, Tourism and Trade, during the Meet Up event, on 25 September, organised by Iberian Property at Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão, in Porto.

Former Councillor for Culture at Porto City Hall, under the Executive of Mayor Rui Moreira, Paulo Cunha e Silva, will be honoured by the University of Porto (U. Porto), throughout 2019. Paulo Cunha e Silva has forever changed the way people in Porto feel and think culture.

Rivoli plays host to the 4th edition of Queer Porto Festival, from 10 to 14 October. The main guest is the American writer Dennis Cooper, who is in Porto to present the film "Permanent Green Light" that he has co-directed with Zac Farley.

Family Film Project International Festival - archive, Memory, Ethnography is back in Porto, from 15 to 20 October. The Festival is held annually in Porto and since inception, in the year 2012, it has had notorious visibility and increased internationalisation.

Irish airliner Ryanair announces new air links from Porto as of the summer of 2019. In total, there will be six new flights to Seville, Alicante, Brive, Cagliari, Marrakesh and Venice (Treviso).

"Consumers and environmental justice" is the umbrella topic for the conference that will be held at the Congress Centre in Porto Customs, on 12 October. This event will also assess topics such as the unequal impact on different groups of consumers of environmental hazards, namely air pollution, extreme weather conditions and contaminants in food.

Old Jerusalem is a musical project by Francisco Silva. With a New Country, Folk tune, his music is presented with the virtuoso guitar widdling. This event is presented in the context of the "Quintas da Leitura", at Teatro Campo Alegre, on 25 October, at 10 pm.

Portuguese translator Elisabeth Monteiro Rodrigues was awarded the Great Translation Prize of the City of Arles for the French edition of the book "Da Família", by Portuguese writer Valério Romão. The prize giving ceremony is scheduled for 9 November at the du Méja Association, in the context of the 35th Literary Translation Meeting in Arles.

"Sem Imago Mundi, Antes Um Desvio Aleatório" is the theme of the new project curated by Eduarda Neves, which will be presented on 12 October at the Ciência Viva Centre, in Porto, at 6 pm.