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Just moved to Lisbon? Pick your language: your first month step by step, and events you can go to on your own.
A monthly poetry gathering in a bookshop near Príncipe Real, held under the waxing moon: poets, readers and artists from other fields mixing with the spoken word. This edition marks the cycle's first anniversary with a sound installation by the musician Noiserv in the garden, carrying recorded voices of poets from the past year.
The Gulbenkian Choir, conducted by Martina Batič, sings two Bach motets together with pieces by Portuguese composers, including a world premiere by Andreia Pinto Correia written for the foundation's 70th anniversary. A beautiful, calm evening out — easy to go to on your own.
A performative concert where seven women improvisers create sound and movement live, with no fixed choreography — listening, deciding and shaping the evening together with the audience. It also celebrates 20 years of Mariana Lemos's work as an artist and teacher.
A one-hour guided visit through the royal apartments of the Ajuda Palace to discover how Queen Maria Pia dressed: from her dressing room to the small red room where she kept her dressmaker's bills, and from everyday photos to gala portraits.
A guided walk through downtown Lisbon following the caricaturist and ceramicist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro: his tiles on building façades and the places he drew with humour — Chiado, Rossio, Restauradores, Terreiro do Paço and the City Hall. History told with a smile, outdoors.
A whole free Sunday at a municipal palace in Charneca: a guided visit of the rooms and gardens, workshops for adults and children — including a Cape Verdean cachupa cooking class where you cook a meal together and then eat it — and a concert at 17:30 with Paula Oliveira and Ricardo Dias. Come for an hour or for the day.
A concert about water as memory and connection: Telemann's Wassermusik played by the Divino Sospiro ensemble under Massimo Mazzeo, in dialogue with 20th and 21st century piano works by Raúl da Costa. In a beautiful municipal theatre in Chiado.
The Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis mixes classical, gypsy jazz and folk in a style all his own — a lively night in an old arms factory turned bookshop-bar and concert space.
On the last Saturday of each month the Portuguese Parliament opens São Bento Palace to the public for free: walk through some of its rooms and join guided visits (booking on the parliament's website).
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