Lisbon Events Calendar

Teatro Thalia is a small but historically significant Portuguese theater that dates back three centuries. It has been sold, bought, and restored many a time, including by Spaniards, who happen to not be fans of the Portuguese.

Therefore, throughout its existence, it has united many a side, sense, and desire, housing, for example, lions, tigers, panthers, a navy museum, and, more recently, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

This weekend, in this spirit, the theater hosts a multimedia art exhibit, Reverso (“Reverse”). Here’s how the organizers describe that:
“Reverso.
The opposite of what you see, a whispery invitation: hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side. Between light and dark, to reverse is to discover the hidden matter that separates and unites sides, senses, desires.
It is to exercise the muscle of stubbornness, to exchange the said for the unsaid, with the feeling free and unpunished. Reverse is the place where opposites smell, touch, and finally exchange, in search of new truths, new versions. After all, who defines which side is right?
To invent the reverse is to dig the back of what one reads, to create the image of the word, the word of the image. Imagine worlds like dancing in silence. Reverse is weaving, with the rebel line that spins and unravels, the reverse of poetry.”

Illustrations by Alice Prestes.
Poetry by Luciana Soares.
Curated by Patrica Ferreira.

HOURS: 9h-20h, through Jan 6 (closed Sunday).
INAUGURATION: Saturday, Jan 4, 15h-19h.

FREE ENTRY.

One thing that makes Lisbon breathtakingly sexy, aside from her personality, of course, is her sultry curves.
And photographer Olivier Perrin seems to agree.

Olivier has been living in Lisbon since 2004, and here’s how he describes his work:
“Photography has always been part of my daily life.
I have always been particularly interested in humans in their everyday environment, but also in the geometric space in which they evolve.
Lisbon lends itself perfectly to this approach.”

His latest solo project is entitled “Lisbon – Through the Curves of the City.” Lisbon Gallery Loja is hosting it through mid-January.

Go show some love.

GALLERY HOURS:
Mon – Fri, 09h30 – 18h30.
Show up until Jan 16.

FREE ENTRY.

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We hear ya, Ralph. And this is especially true when it comes to art. That is, if you don’t know how to play, you might as well get a real job.

For the next two months, Belém’s main artists’ playground MAAT presents a group multimedia exhibit based on the concept of — you guessed it — playing, aptly entitled Playmode.

Big players like Brad Downey, Gabriel Orozco, and Ana Vieira are joined by over a dozen lesser-known but equally significant local and international players who, in the words of the organizers, “adopt the theme exploring new ways of seeing, to participate and transform the world, using the game critically.”

HOURS*: 11h-19h, every day except Tuesday.

*Show up until February 3d or February 19th.
Our guess is as good as yours (i.e., welcome to Lisbon!).

ENTRY: 2,50€ for students, 5€ for adults, 9€ for the whole museum + the exhibit.

“Urucum” is the Portuguese word for annatto.
Wtf is annatto, you ask?
Annatto is a type of tree, and also an orange-red dye obtained from the seed coat of the tropical fruit said tree yields. It’s used for food coloring.
You’re welcome.

Urucum.com describe this art exhibit simply:
“Digital Art, Indigenous Art, Textile Art, Modern Art, Printed Art, Unconscious Art, Photographic Art, Contemporary Art, Folk Art…
ART!
This exhibition is an invitation to experience a plural art.”

Show up until January 4th, 2020.

FREE ENTRY.

Belly dancing, aka Raks Sharki, aka oriental dance (sorry, self-proclaimed Americans) is both hot and not easy.

And Ana Moreira, self-proclaimed oriental dancer, knows this.

Ana wants to teach you to belly dance.

Here’s how Ana describes her weekly Monday night dance class on belly dancing:
“It is currently practiced by women from all over the world, and of all ages, a dance in which various parts of the body are worked in isolation and that promotes physical well-being, harmony, and self-esteem. It is a dance characterized mainly by the hip and belly movements, alternately wavy and accentuated, to which may be added some props, such as veils, canes, sword, among others.
The songs used have a characteristic sound that transports us to the Arab world.
It is a happy and relaxed dance.
Of women and for women.”

But boys are welcome too — if they got the belly, that is.

Bring your belly and transport to the Arab world with Ana.

Ana adds:
“Material needed-
Comfortable clothing, a scarf to tie at the waist, and a good mood. Classes are done without shoes, but socks or sneakers are recommended for protection only.”

8€ per session.
25€ for a month.

Johnny Depp (god bless his soul), The Matrix, and LSD have made two things painfully clear.
First, that more and more people know and talk about Alice in Wonderland (actually entitled Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland).
And second — that less and less people have or will read the actual book. This Atlaser happens to be guilty as charged too.

Bookshop Tigre de Papel (“Paper Tiger”), however, believes that, despite all evidence to the contrary, people will read again.
Or maybe they’re just jumping on the proverbial bandwagon…
Whatever the case may be, they invite you and yours to — forgive us — go through the rabbit hole and discover the original story of Alice this Sunday at 18h30.

FREE ENTRY.

Winner of several Atlas “Best of Lisboa” awards, Titanic Sur Mer is stepping up its jazz game with weekly jam sessions on Mondays. For free. Considering the talents Titanic pulls for its variety of musical acts, this will surely become a Monday-night classic.

Here’s a little inspiration:

The biggest and still the best outdoor market in Lisbon, every Tuesday morning and Saturday pretty much all day. “Ladra” means “thief” – while you can get some nice artisanal jewelry, 17th-century tiles, copper pots, and vintage LPs, this is also THE market to replace your missing phone charger or stolen backpack, pick up some off-the-truck books, and haggle over Soviet gas masks. Best place for gramophones in Europe bar none.

Morning time is when things are particularly sketchy, if you like that sort of thing. By 9, it’s mostly very nice shoppers, very civilized and such. Bonus: excellent street musicians forming impromptu gypsy orchestras with some real class and skill.

Take 712, 734 and 28 Electrico tram, or go by taxi, who all know where it is.

Teatro Thalia is a small but historically significant Portuguese theater that dates back three centuries. It has been sold, bought, and restored many a time, including by Spaniards, who happen to not be fans of the Portuguese.

Therefore, throughout its existence, it has united many a side, sense, and desire, housing, for example, lions, tigers, panthers, a navy museum, and, more recently, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

This weekend, in this spirit, the theater hosts a multimedia art exhibit, Reverso (“Reverse”). Here’s how the organizers describe that:
“Reverso.
The opposite of what you see, a whispery invitation: hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side. Between light and dark, to reverse is to discover the hidden matter that separates and unites sides, senses, desires.
It is to exercise the muscle of stubbornness, to exchange the said for the unsaid, with the feeling free and unpunished. Reverse is the place where opposites smell, touch, and finally exchange, in search of new truths, new versions. After all, who defines which side is right?
To invent the reverse is to dig the back of what one reads, to create the image of the word, the word of the image. Imagine worlds like dancing in silence. Reverse is weaving, with the rebel line that spins and unravels, the reverse of poetry.”

Illustrations by Alice Prestes.
Poetry by Luciana Soares.
Curated by Patrica Ferreira.

HOURS: 9h-20h, through Jan 6 (closed Sunday).
INAUGURATION: Saturday, Jan 4, 15h-19h.

FREE ENTRY.

One thing that makes Lisbon breathtakingly sexy, aside from her personality, of course, is her sultry curves.
And photographer Olivier Perrin seems to agree.

Olivier has been living in Lisbon since 2004, and here’s how he describes his work:
“Photography has always been part of my daily life.
I have always been particularly interested in humans in their everyday environment, but also in the geometric space in which they evolve.
Lisbon lends itself perfectly to this approach.”

His latest solo project is entitled “Lisbon – Through the Curves of the City.” Lisbon Gallery Loja is hosting it through mid-January.

Go show some love.

GALLERY HOURS:
Mon – Fri, 09h30 – 18h30.
Show up until Jan 16.

FREE ENTRY.

“Urucum” is the Portuguese word for annatto.
Wtf is annatto, you ask?
Annatto is a type of tree, and also an orange-red dye obtained from the seed coat of the tropical fruit said tree yields. It’s used for food coloring.
You’re welcome.

Urucum.com describe this art exhibit simply:
“Digital Art, Indigenous Art, Textile Art, Modern Art, Printed Art, Unconscious Art, Photographic Art, Contemporary Art, Folk Art…
ART!
This exhibition is an invitation to experience a plural art.”

Show up until January 4th, 2020.

FREE ENTRY.

“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”
Banksy.

Cathy Douzil is an artist and teacher who was born in Paris and now lives in Lisbon.
Cathy likes to draw, and she’s not bad.
For that reason, she doesn’t mind teaching you.

Here’s what she says about her workshops:
“Throughout the year, session after session, we will try to solve the mystery of moving a three-dimensional figure to our sheet of paper, capturing the essentials of the human figure (dynamics, movement, and shadow). Sessions will be at two speeds: calm every Tuesday and fast every Wednesday.”

The workshops are open to anyone 15 years or older, with no experience necessary.

PRICING:
-7€ per session all month at two speeds;
-8€ per session all month at one speed;
-10€ per single session (paid in cash at the Museum reception before 18h).
*Alternatively, monthly payments can be made via bank transfer, at least 48 hours in advance; please ask for bank details upon registration.

MATERIALS:
The material is included (board, sheets, and pencil) but limited to the first 18 students enrolled.
You will be able to participate beyond this limit with your own material.

Every Tuesday and Wednesday (except holidays), 18h-19h30, until June 24th, 2020.

Registrations via email [email protected].

Did we mention there will be naked people?

Are you a struggling videographer, artist, and/or filmmaker who wants nothing more than to have their images looped in a dingy little ungentrified after-hours hotspot in the heart of this great city?
If so, you’re in luck.

We’ll let the organizers take it from here:
“Year-round Open Call.
LOOPCAVE is a video art showcase dedicated to the loop organized in the Desterro‘s cave, in Lisbon. Fortnightly, with the purpose of opening the most diverse windows for the culture of the new artistic media, selected videos will be displayed via a monthly open call. The open calls are open every month until the end of the year, and two pieces are selected each month.

All videos must be submitted via email with the following info:
– name of the artist;
– small bio of the artist;
– link to the video;
– short description of the video (title, time, format and credits).”

Email [email protected].

Curated by the artist João Pedro Fonseca.

More here.

Teatro Thalia is a small but historically significant Portuguese theater that dates back three centuries. It has been sold, bought, and restored many a time, including by Spaniards, who happen to not be fans of the Portuguese.

Therefore, throughout its existence, it has united many a side, sense, and desire, housing, for example, lions, tigers, panthers, a navy museum, and, more recently, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

This weekend, in this spirit, the theater hosts a multimedia art exhibit, Reverso (“Reverse”). Here’s how the organizers describe that:
“Reverso.
The opposite of what you see, a whispery invitation: hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side. Between light and dark, to reverse is to discover the hidden matter that separates and unites sides, senses, desires.
It is to exercise the muscle of stubbornness, to exchange the said for the unsaid, with the feeling free and unpunished. Reverse is the place where opposites smell, touch, and finally exchange, in search of new truths, new versions. After all, who defines which side is right?
To invent the reverse is to dig the back of what one reads, to create the image of the word, the word of the image. Imagine worlds like dancing in silence. Reverse is weaving, with the rebel line that spins and unravels, the reverse of poetry.”

Illustrations by Alice Prestes.
Poetry by Luciana Soares.
Curated by Patrica Ferreira.

HOURS: 9h-20h, through Jan 6 (closed Sunday).
INAUGURATION: Saturday, Jan 4, 15h-19h.

FREE ENTRY.

One thing that makes Lisbon breathtakingly sexy, aside from her personality, of course, is her sultry curves.
And photographer Olivier Perrin seems to agree.

Olivier has been living in Lisbon since 2004, and here’s how he describes his work:
“Photography has always been part of my daily life.
I have always been particularly interested in humans in their everyday environment, but also in the geometric space in which they evolve.
Lisbon lends itself perfectly to this approach.”

His latest solo project is entitled “Lisbon – Through the Curves of the City.” Lisbon Gallery Loja is hosting it through mid-January.

Go show some love.

GALLERY HOURS:
Mon – Fri, 09h30 – 18h30.
Show up until Jan 16.

FREE ENTRY.

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We hear ya, Ralph. And this is especially true when it comes to art. That is, if you don’t know how to play, you might as well get a real job.

For the next two months, Belém’s main artists’ playground MAAT presents a group multimedia exhibit based on the concept of — you guessed it — playing, aptly entitled Playmode.

Big players like Brad Downey, Gabriel Orozco, and Ana Vieira are joined by over a dozen lesser-known but equally significant local and international players who, in the words of the organizers, “adopt the theme exploring new ways of seeing, to participate and transform the world, using the game critically.”

HOURS*: 11h-19h, every day except Tuesday.

*Show up until February 3d or February 19th.
Our guess is as good as yours (i.e., welcome to Lisbon!).

ENTRY: 2,50€ for students, 5€ for adults, 9€ for the whole museum + the exhibit.

“Urucum” is the Portuguese word for annatto.
Wtf is annatto, you ask?
Annatto is a type of tree, and also an orange-red dye obtained from the seed coat of the tropical fruit said tree yields. It’s used for food coloring.
You’re welcome.

Urucum.com describe this art exhibit simply:
“Digital Art, Indigenous Art, Textile Art, Modern Art, Printed Art, Unconscious Art, Photographic Art, Contemporary Art, Folk Art…
ART!
This exhibition is an invitation to experience a plural art.”

Show up until January 4th, 2020.

FREE ENTRY.

“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”
Banksy.

Cathy Douzil is an artist and teacher who was born in Paris and now lives in Lisbon.
Cathy likes to draw, and she’s not bad.
For that reason, she doesn’t mind teaching you.

Here’s what she says about her workshops:
“Throughout the year, session after session, we will try to solve the mystery of moving a three-dimensional figure to our sheet of paper, capturing the essentials of the human figure (dynamics, movement, and shadow). Sessions will be at two speeds: calm every Tuesday and fast every Wednesday.”

The workshops are open to anyone 15 years or older, with no experience necessary.

PRICING:
-7€ per session all month at two speeds;
-8€ per session all month at one speed;
-10€ per single session (paid in cash at the Museum reception before 18h).
*Alternatively, monthly payments can be made via bank transfer, at least 48 hours in advance; please ask for bank details upon registration.

MATERIALS:
The material is included (board, sheets, and pencil) but limited to the first 18 students enrolled.
You will be able to participate beyond this limit with your own material.

Every Tuesday and Wednesday (except holidays), 18h-19h30, until June 24th, 2020.

Registrations via email [email protected].

Did we mention there will be naked people?

Teatro Thalia is a small but historically significant Portuguese theater that dates back three centuries. It has been sold, bought, and restored many a time, including by Spaniards, who happen to not be fans of the Portuguese.

Therefore, throughout its existence, it has united many a side, sense, and desire, housing, for example, lions, tigers, panthers, a navy museum, and, more recently, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

This weekend, in this spirit, the theater hosts a multimedia art exhibit, Reverso (“Reverse”). Here’s how the organizers describe that:
“Reverso.
The opposite of what you see, a whispery invitation: hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side. Between light and dark, to reverse is to discover the hidden matter that separates and unites sides, senses, desires.
It is to exercise the muscle of stubbornness, to exchange the said for the unsaid, with the feeling free and unpunished. Reverse is the place where opposites smell, touch, and finally exchange, in search of new truths, new versions. After all, who defines which side is right?
To invent the reverse is to dig the back of what one reads, to create the image of the word, the word of the image. Imagine worlds like dancing in silence. Reverse is weaving, with the rebel line that spins and unravels, the reverse of poetry.”

Illustrations by Alice Prestes.
Poetry by Luciana Soares.
Curated by Patrica Ferreira.

HOURS: 9h-20h, through Jan 6 (closed Sunday).
INAUGURATION: Saturday, Jan 4, 15h-19h.

FREE ENTRY.

One thing that makes Lisbon breathtakingly sexy, aside from her personality, of course, is her sultry curves.
And photographer Olivier Perrin seems to agree.

Olivier has been living in Lisbon since 2004, and here’s how he describes his work:
“Photography has always been part of my daily life.
I have always been particularly interested in humans in their everyday environment, but also in the geometric space in which they evolve.
Lisbon lends itself perfectly to this approach.”

His latest solo project is entitled “Lisbon – Through the Curves of the City.” Lisbon Gallery Loja is hosting it through mid-January.

Go show some love.

GALLERY HOURS:
Mon – Fri, 09h30 – 18h30.
Show up until Jan 16.

FREE ENTRY.

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We hear ya, Ralph. And this is especially true when it comes to art. That is, if you don’t know how to play, you might as well get a real job.

For the next two months, Belém’s main artists’ playground MAAT presents a group multimedia exhibit based on the concept of — you guessed it — playing, aptly entitled Playmode.

Big players like Brad Downey, Gabriel Orozco, and Ana Vieira are joined by over a dozen lesser-known but equally significant local and international players who, in the words of the organizers, “adopt the theme exploring new ways of seeing, to participate and transform the world, using the game critically.”

HOURS*: 11h-19h, every day except Tuesday.

*Show up until February 3d or February 19th.
Our guess is as good as yours (i.e., welcome to Lisbon!).

ENTRY: 2,50€ for students, 5€ for adults, 9€ for the whole museum + the exhibit.

“Urucum” is the Portuguese word for annatto.
Wtf is annatto, you ask?
Annatto is a type of tree, and also an orange-red dye obtained from the seed coat of the tropical fruit said tree yields. It’s used for food coloring.
You’re welcome.

Urucum.com describe this art exhibit simply:
“Digital Art, Indigenous Art, Textile Art, Modern Art, Printed Art, Unconscious Art, Photographic Art, Contemporary Art, Folk Art…
ART!
This exhibition is an invitation to experience a plural art.”

Show up until January 4th, 2020.

FREE ENTRY.

Teatro Thalia is a small but historically significant Portuguese theater that dates back three centuries. It has been sold, bought, and restored many a time, including by Spaniards, who happen to not be fans of the Portuguese.

Therefore, throughout its existence, it has united many a side, sense, and desire, housing, for example, lions, tigers, panthers, a navy museum, and, more recently, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

This weekend, in this spirit, the theater hosts a multimedia art exhibit, Reverso (“Reverse”). Here’s how the organizers describe that:
“Reverso.
The opposite of what you see, a whispery invitation: hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side. Between light and dark, to reverse is to discover the hidden matter that separates and unites sides, senses, desires.
It is to exercise the muscle of stubbornness, to exchange the said for the unsaid, with the feeling free and unpunished. Reverse is the place where opposites smell, touch, and finally exchange, in search of new truths, new versions. After all, who defines which side is right?
To invent the reverse is to dig the back of what one reads, to create the image of the word, the word of the image. Imagine worlds like dancing in silence. Reverse is weaving, with the rebel line that spins and unravels, the reverse of poetry.”

Illustrations by Alice Prestes.
Poetry by Luciana Soares.
Curated by Patrica Ferreira.

HOURS: 9h-20h, through Jan 6 (closed Sunday).
INAUGURATION: Saturday, Jan 4, 15h-19h.

FREE ENTRY.

One thing that makes Lisbon breathtakingly sexy, aside from her personality, of course, is her sultry curves.
And photographer Olivier Perrin seems to agree.

Olivier has been living in Lisbon since 2004, and here’s how he describes his work:
“Photography has always been part of my daily life.
I have always been particularly interested in humans in their everyday environment, but also in the geometric space in which they evolve.
Lisbon lends itself perfectly to this approach.”

His latest solo project is entitled “Lisbon – Through the Curves of the City.” Lisbon Gallery Loja is hosting it through mid-January.

Go show some love.

GALLERY HOURS:
Mon – Fri, 09h30 – 18h30.
Show up until Jan 16.

FREE ENTRY.

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We hear ya, Ralph. And this is especially true when it comes to art. That is, if you don’t know how to play, you might as well get a real job.

For the next two months, Belém’s main artists’ playground MAAT presents a group multimedia exhibit based on the concept of — you guessed it — playing, aptly entitled Playmode.

Big players like Brad Downey, Gabriel Orozco, and Ana Vieira are joined by over a dozen lesser-known but equally significant local and international players who, in the words of the organizers, “adopt the theme exploring new ways of seeing, to participate and transform the world, using the game critically.”

HOURS*: 11h-19h, every day except Tuesday.

*Show up until February 3d or February 19th.
Our guess is as good as yours (i.e., welcome to Lisbon!).

ENTRY: 2,50€ for students, 5€ for adults, 9€ for the whole museum + the exhibit.

“Urucum” is the Portuguese word for annatto.
Wtf is annatto, you ask?
Annatto is a type of tree, and also an orange-red dye obtained from the seed coat of the tropical fruit said tree yields. It’s used for food coloring.
You’re welcome.

Urucum.com describe this art exhibit simply:
“Digital Art, Indigenous Art, Textile Art, Modern Art, Printed Art, Unconscious Art, Photographic Art, Contemporary Art, Folk Art…
ART!
This exhibition is an invitation to experience a plural art.”

Show up until January 4th, 2020.

FREE ENTRY.

The biggest and still the best outdoor market in Lisbon, every Tuesday morning and Saturday pretty much all day. “Ladra” means “thief” – while you can get some nice artisanal jewelry, 17th-century tiles, copper pots, and vintage LPs, this is also THE market to replace your missing phone charger or stolen backpack, pick up some off-the-truck books, and haggle over Soviet gas masks. Best place for gramophones in Europe bar none.

Morning time is when things are particularly sketchy, if you like that sort of thing. By 9, it’s mostly very nice shoppers, very civilized and such. Bonus: excellent street musicians forming impromptu gypsy orchestras with some real class and skill.

Take 712, 734 and 28 Electrico tram, or go by taxi, who all know where it is.

Teatro Thalia is a small but historically significant Portuguese theater that dates back three centuries. It has been sold, bought, and restored many a time, including by Spaniards, who happen to not be fans of the Portuguese.

Therefore, throughout its existence, it has united many a side, sense, and desire, housing, for example, lions, tigers, panthers, a navy museum, and, more recently, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

This weekend, in this spirit, the theater hosts a multimedia art exhibit, Reverso (“Reverse”). Here’s how the organizers describe that:
“Reverso.
The opposite of what you see, a whispery invitation: hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side. Between light and dark, to reverse is to discover the hidden matter that separates and unites sides, senses, desires.
It is to exercise the muscle of stubbornness, to exchange the said for the unsaid, with the feeling free and unpunished. Reverse is the place where opposites smell, touch, and finally exchange, in search of new truths, new versions. After all, who defines which side is right?
To invent the reverse is to dig the back of what one reads, to create the image of the word, the word of the image. Imagine worlds like dancing in silence. Reverse is weaving, with the rebel line that spins and unravels, the reverse of poetry.”

Illustrations by Alice Prestes.
Poetry by Luciana Soares.
Curated by Patrica Ferreira.

HOURS: 9h-20h, through Jan 6 (closed Sunday).
INAUGURATION: Saturday, Jan 4, 15h-19h.

FREE ENTRY.

Feira dos Alfarrabistas (used book dealer fair) is a great place to break up the monotony of chain stores in Chiado and pick up something truly unique. Most books here are in Portuguese, but there are always gems in English and French and occasionally other languages. Several sellers also usually carry antique prints, old postcards, and maps. A very pleasant place to browse, and the prices are usually fairer than other markets.

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We hear ya, Ralph. And this is especially true when it comes to art. That is, if you don’t know how to play, you might as well get a real job.

For the next two months, Belém’s main artists’ playground MAAT presents a group multimedia exhibit based on the concept of — you guessed it — playing, aptly entitled Playmode.

Big players like Brad Downey, Gabriel Orozco, and Ana Vieira are joined by over a dozen lesser-known but equally significant local and international players who, in the words of the organizers, “adopt the theme exploring new ways of seeing, to participate and transform the world, using the game critically.”

HOURS*: 11h-19h, every day except Tuesday.

*Show up until February 3d or February 19th.
Our guess is as good as yours (i.e., welcome to Lisbon!).

ENTRY: 2,50€ for students, 5€ for adults, 9€ for the whole museum + the exhibit.

“Urucum” is the Portuguese word for annatto.
Wtf is annatto, you ask?
Annatto is a type of tree, and also an orange-red dye obtained from the seed coat of the tropical fruit said tree yields. It’s used for food coloring.
You’re welcome.

Urucum.com describe this art exhibit simply:
“Digital Art, Indigenous Art, Textile Art, Modern Art, Printed Art, Unconscious Art, Photographic Art, Contemporary Art, Folk Art…
ART!
This exhibition is an invitation to experience a plural art.”

Show up until January 4th, 2020.

FREE ENTRY.

Saturday nights in Cais do Sodré can get quite chaotic. Trust us…
But that doesn’t mean that, amidst the chaos, you can’t find solace in some good music. Here’s what O Bom O Mau e O Vilão, the organizers of “Caos no Sodré,” say:
“Attention all Gunslingers: Altamont is pleased to present Rock as a fuse for a epic dancing night to the sound of The Beatles, The Stones, Hendrix, The Smiths, REM, Blur, Nirvana, Joy Division, The Clash, The Ramones, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, among many others! This Saturday night will get more flavor with the new Jameson Ginger and Lime! Come and try it.”

We’re not sure about the “Jameson Ginger and Lime” bit, but the line-up definitely sounds to be in good order.

FREE ENTRY.

The Gulbenkian Planetarium in Belém invites you to view your insignificance in the face of the universe for half the regular price the first Sunday of every month, and for free if you are between the ages of 4 and 12 or older than 64.
Go enjoy some cosmic science and be humbled. NOTE: The Cosmos ticket office is closed for lunch from 12 to 13h30.
More deets here.
NOTE II: Take headphones with you if you plan to listen to the show in anything other than Portuguese. The planetarium supplies them, but they’re mighty uncomfortable.

And here’s an intergalactic throwback.

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“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

We hear ya, Ralph. And this is especially true when it comes to art. That is, if you don’t know how to play, you might as well get a real job.

For the next two months, Belém’s main artists’ playground MAAT presents a group multimedia exhibit based on the concept of — you guessed it — playing, aptly entitled Playmode.

Big players like Brad Downey, Gabriel Orozco, and Ana Vieira are joined by over a dozen lesser-known but equally significant local and international players who, in the words of the organizers, “adopt the theme exploring new ways of seeing, to participate and transform the world, using the game critically.”

HOURS*: 11h-19h, every day except Tuesday.

*Show up until February 3d or February 19th.
Our guess is as good as yours (i.e., welcome to Lisbon!).

ENTRY: 2,50€ for students, 5€ for adults, 9€ for the whole museum + the exhibit.

If you live in Lisbon, chances are you know at least one person that loves samba.
And if you’ve been down by the river on any given Sunday night lately, then you may have witnessed the madness that is Viva o Samba at Titanic Sur Mer.
If not — we highly recommend it.

The organizers describe it as “Europe’s most engaging cultural event,” and we’re tempted to agree.
They add:
“Everyone is invited.
Here our gratitude is expressed for so many shared joys, and all the positive vibrations that we’re emanating into the universe. We are all the resistance that samba needs to never be forgotten; or, rather, always remembered.
Come on!”

Stop by any Sunday through March and witness the magic for yourself.
It’s definitely a night to remember.

ENTRY: 10€.

Here’s a glimpse of the madness.

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