Culture
Blending the Digital with the Organic in Art and Soul: A Q&A with the muti collective
A brainstorming session during the pandemic led to the creation of an artist collective and residency program in Portugal’s countryside, with a serious footprint in Lisbon.
All Killer, No Filler: MEO Kalorama 2023
Kalorama filled three days and three nights in Parque da Bela Vista with some of the best, biggest tunes heard in Lisbon all year
Art is Hard: bbb hairdryer and the State of the Scene
On a Thursday night in Club B.Leza, singer and guitarist Elisa Guerra and bassist Francisco Couto stand with their backs turned to the crowd, facing
Vibrant Matter: An interview with Sophia Vigne-Welsh and Pia Mršek
Lara Curran interviews the Irish painter Vigne-Welsh and the Slovenian sculptor Mršek about their upcoming exhibit at Galeria Augustine in Santa Apolónia and learns how two different approaches gelled in Lisbon.
Hell Is Other People: Já International Theatre’s “No Exit”
Adapted and directed by Suresh Nampuri, Sartre’s classic takes influence from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel Elective Affinities.
Ripping Perception to Shreds with Filmmaker Alexandre Alagôa
Alexandre Alagôa’s film When I Close My Eyes I See Everything sets out to strip away the contexts and references that muddle and complicate our experience of vision.
Seeing Lisbon with Museum Guides Leading Walking Tours
Until October, four themed walking tours will help people discover how Lisbon was built and experienced over different periods of the city’s history. David Felismino of the Museu de Lisboa shares his thoughts with Atlas.
Inside the Portuguese Parliament
The Parliament Building hasn’t always been used for lawmaking,.
Reflector #50: Lluis Llach – “Abril 74”
Lluis Llach has long been a reference among protest singer-songwriters in Catalonia, ever since the last years of General Franco’s regime, in the early ’70s,
Reflector #49: Dizzy Gillespie – “Lisbon”
Dizzy Gillespie, the legendary jazz trumpetist with the puffy cheeks, scored his piece “Lisbon” in the album Winter In Lisbon as part of the original
Reflector #47: Heron Oblivion – “Faro”
Did this psychedelic rock group make it down to the Algarve? Unclear!
Slipping into the Surreal with Cork-based Musician Elaine Malone
Malone’s songs unfold and reveal themselves as cryptic confessionals of matters both personal and universal in equal measure. Expertly crafted songwriting finds life in Malone’s silken voice, a voice steeped in maturity and emotional depth, settling comfortably atop soft and subterranean instrumentation.