Featured Events in Lisbon in June 2024 (July Updated)

Fado is a Portuguese music with a history of more than 150 years. It is often used to express sadness and loss. You can hear it in taverns, cafes and other places in Lisbon. Tourists who come to Lisbon can feel the influence of local music and art. Don't miss it.

FIA Lisboa 2024 is an exceptional platform dedicated to promoting the economic, cultural, and tourist aspects of both national and foreign territories. It serves as a catalyst for regional development, celebrating and preserving the rich heritage of local cultures. This comprehensive initiative showcases a wide range of elements from the tangible and intangible cultural heritage, including handicrafts, gastronomy, natural resources, cultural activities, and tourist attractions. FIA Lisboa 2024 aims to showcase the best of what the national and foreign territories have to offer, with a particular focus on micro, small, and medium national companies, entities, and official bodies. These entities are dedicated to projects aimed at promoting and disseminating the unique characteristics of the territories, as well as the sale of regional products. This prestigious event is an excellent opportunity for these entities to gain exposure and recognition. Mark your calendars for FIA Lisboa 2024, taking place from June 29 to July 7, at the renowned FIL - Feira Internacional de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal. This major event promises to be a truly immersive experience, highlighting the identity and development of national and foreign territories. Join us in celebrating and supporting regional development and various local cultures, while enjoying the remarkable material and intangible cultural heritage that these territories have to offer.

The exhibition "Memories and Stories: African Art in Focus" presents a unique collection of African artworks, including sculptures, masks, fabrics and paintings. Each piece carries with it the history and culture of the African continent, revealing forgotten memories and celebrating ancestral traditions. All the works are available for sale, offering visitors the opportunity to take home a piece of Africa's rich artistic heritage.

How do you talk about love as a woman? Why is it that when women theorize or act creatively on the concept of love, which is so latent and transversal to human life, they are more difficult to take seriously? Historically, in a world dominated by male power, based on the ownership of the public and intellectual spheres, narratives about multiple aspects of life, including love and the nature of relationships, have always been controlled. Theorists such as Plato and Aristotle shaped the Western understanding of love, imposing their own experiences and beliefs, without women's perspectives being considered. Ana Pérez-Quiroga, an artist active in the movements that have fought for gender equality since the 19th century, through theoretical and practical research, once again reaffirms the exploration of the concept of sentimental love from a feminist perspective. In this sense, she defends the urgency of women taking on the role of creators and talking about love from their own experience and autonomy. This reorganization of roles is crucial to expanding the understanding of love in contemporary times and deconstructing the heteronormative discourses that perpetuate gender violence against women and the LGBTQIA+ community. Estonteante, the title of the neon that names the exhibition, is an ode to love, proposing a vision that points to forms of affection that promote equity and freedom. This bemusement is the result of the intoxication of emotions when we fall in love with another, with all the hope and fantasy that this can represent. It is a lovely way, a performance sculpture for making soap bubbles, makes explicit the playful root, the transformative power of love and the magical interaction in discovering the other. This idea of encounter and duplicity, present in the subtle dialogues between the various works in the exhibition, suggests complementarity and a desire to merge. You are her and she is you, You are here to risk your heart or Espelho meu are also reflections of the open surrender to risk and the unknown. Mover para fora #1, #2 and #3, a fabric that can be either sky or sea, surrounds and permeates the gallery space, summoning and leading the viewer into this sensitive, private and generous universe. On the other hand, the presence of language and the written word, characteristic of all Pérez-Quiroga's artistic work, seems to be a way of reaching out to the other, opening space for effabulation and the creation of new narratives; after all, Love is a knot made of two intertwined freedoms [O amor é um nó feito de duas liberdades entrelaçadas]. By revisiting an exhibition of hers, twenty years later, Pérez-Quiroga celebrates love and its salvific and redemptive power, aspiring to a new place: the manifestation of the feminine and the forces that shape and influence our experiences of love. ANA PÉREZ-QUIROGA Estonteante 06.06 – 27.07.2024 _ Text : Carolina Quintela Photography : Bruno Lopes Video : João Silva Installation and art handling : Pedro Canoilas

Rock in Rio is the largest music and entertainment festival in the world. The first edition was held in 1985 in Brazil, and today the event is one of the most important in the history of world music. Its enclosure (Cidade do Rock) is a true music theme park with lots of entertainment and various activities, which are much more than the main stage shows - street performances, art shows, exhibitions, dance shows, performances by digital influencers, cosplay, a Ferris wheel and more.