Lisbon Rua: gardens and squares of the capital receive shows … – Blitz

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Shows music, film and visual arts will enliven from today until September 20, the main gardens and squares of Lisbon, through the 6th edition of the “Lisbon Rua” with free entry.

Organized by Enterprise Device Management and Cultural Animation (EGEAC), in partnership with Turismo de Portugal, the “Lisbon on Rua / With ‘Out Lisbon” intends, during the summer , “enhance the city and its public spaces as essential to an encounter with the culture condition,” said the organization.

For the president of the board of directors of EGEAC, Miguel Honored, “there is a large transverse the cultural offer this “directed” both for citizens of Lisbon as for those who are visiting the city for programming, “he said.

Among spectacles jazz, urban music, pop and fado, outdoor cinema , display of classic films and visual arts facilities such as video art and photography, “the Lisbon Street” promises to invade the city’s public spaces.

The Parque das Conchas, Largo de São Carlos, the Garden of Arc Blind, Largo da Severa, Praça José Fontana or the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Chiado will be the main stage of this cultural program outdoors.

The 6th edition of the “Lisbon Rua “opens on Thursday at 19.00 at Parque das Conchas, with a concert by the Jazz Orchestra Leiria integrated in the cycle” The Art of the Big Band ‘, which will feature all Thursdays national jazz orchestra at different points city, counting this year with “the participation of one of the most important European orchestras, the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.”

According to the program, on Fridays will run the ‘Summer Nights’ with concerts Sculpture Garden at the MNAC – Museu do Chiado, and Saturdays ‘Classics in the Street’ in many areas of the city with “classical and contemporary repertoire, jazz, blues, samba and tango, interpreted by Alis Ubbo Ensembles of Trumpets and the Metropolitan Metals “, announced the organization

To recover the historical memory of the people of Lisbon cinemas, the ‘Ribbons in the Street’ will design outdoors.” movies with a woman’s name: Amalia, Viridiana, Lola Pina or Barbarella, among others, “Saturday and Sunday

From the 27th of August, the ‘zone’ -. annual international art festival video Lisbon – back to settle in squares , gardens and terraces of the city, presenting “new works in Portugal and an ‘Open Call’ for Portuguese artists with selection of Jean-François Chougnet” said the organization.

This year, fado integrates programming the “Lisbon Rua” with two concerts of the cycle ‘Em Am Fado’, on August 29 and September 5, in the Largo de São Carlos National Theatre, acting Cristina Nobrega and Ricardo Ribeiro, who will share the stage with Lebanese musician Rabih Abou-Khalil.

The Parisian festival ‘Kiosquorama’ the project ‘Our Voice’ and ‘Lisbon 3D Green’ with the debut of Edgar Pera film are also inserted at first year, the cultural programming “on Lisbon Street”, available from the ‘site’ www.lisboanarua.com.

EGEAC expects to achieve or surpass the popular participation last year, estimated at “more than 21 thousand visitors “, stating that the” Lisbon Rua “” is an increasingly installed in the city brand, “said the head.

According to Miguel Honored, cultural programming follows an investment that” round the 200 000 euros “

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