What to do in Lisbon - October 2010

Our selection of concerts and exhibitions for October is here...

Until 24 Oct
There she goes, beautiful and Safe - Scooters from João Seixas Collection
MUDE – Fashion and Design Museum
With this exhibition we will become more aware of the plurality and specific features of each scooter, gaining a better understanding this phenomenon that swept Europe and the United States. But it is undeniable that among scooters, the Vespa became so popular that it has almost become synonymous with it.

From 13 to 24 Oct
Cirque du Soleil – Saltimbanco
An abundance of joyful and colorful acrobatics in a metropolis.


14 Oct - 9:00pm
Fryderyk Chopin’s Complete Piano Works
Paying homage to Fryderyk Chopin’s life and work, whose birth bicentenary is in 2010, Artur Pizarro will feature throughout 2010/2011 Season nine recitals in the Small Auditorium –Eduardo Prado Coelho Room, performing the composer’s complete piano works.

From 14 Oct
Let’s Talk about Houses: between North and South Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Berardo Museum
The exhibition Let's talk about houses: Between North and South will be presented at the Museu Colecção Berardo. Occupying the entire floor of the Grand Hall (3000 m2), it will examine dwelling conditions and the new solutions found in the specific contexts of various regions around the world. With a broad span of commissioners, the exhibition is based around two emblematic experiments (the SAAL project and Alison and Peter Smithson’s House of the Future) in order to examine the meaning of the specificity of place, the modernist legacy, and new solutions to the question of dwelling.


16 Oct – 9:00pm
Schostakovich Ensemble… To Chopin
The concert ... to Chopin – in the year of composer’s bicentenary of birth – offers several intersections with composers strongly related to Chopin, like Schumann and Schostakovich.

From 28 to 31 Oct
Sleeping Beauty – Companhia Maior
Founder gesture of a new company composed by artists aged 60 years and older, coming from diverse fields of the artistic creation, Sleeping Beauty is a story about the passage of time, rebirth and second chances.

30 Oct – 9:00pm
Portuguese Chamber Orchestra
D Major is a dominant tonality in Beethoven and Brahms’ work. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra will be performed together with soloist Adrian Florescu, and in the second part, Brahms’ Symphony no. 2

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