• 7 April 2017

    FADO FESTIVAL IN THE CANARY ISLANDS

    The song of Lisbon in the Canary Islands, where there are many vestiges of the Portuguese passage, with reflexes in vocabulary and other affinities. From the connection to distant sonorities, linked with Fado. Cuca Rosetta passed there, fado singer Marco Rodrigues yesterday, and Raquel Tavares will perform on May 18.

    The song of Lisbon in the Canary Islands, where there are many vestiges of the Portuguese passage, with reflexes in vocabulary and other affinities.

    From the connection to distant sonorities, linked with Fado.

    Cuca Rosetta passed there, fado singer Marco Rodrigues yesterday, and Raquel Tavares will perform on May 18.

  • 7 April 2017

    SOLIDARITY GUITAR

    Today is a day of solidarity, dedicated to Health. The “Guitarra Solidária” concert will be held, with the participation of Camané, Sofia Escobar, Ana Sofia Varela, Mafalda Veiga and Nathalie, and the launch of the Para Lá do Fado project, A unique Portuguese guitar sound to songs by bands like the Rolling Stones, Bryan Adams […]

    Today is a day of solidarity, dedicated to Health. The “Guitarra Solidária” concert will be held, with the participation of Camané, Sofia Escobar, Ana Sofia Varela, Mafalda Veiga and Nathalie, and the launch of the Para Lá do Fado project, A unique Portuguese guitar sound to songs by bands like the Rolling Stones, Bryan Adams or Pink Floyd.

  • 7 April 2017

    “POP COCK” WENT TO CHINA

    The most recent sculpture by Joana Vasconcelos, a plastic artist, was inaugurated on March 26 in Beijing in the 798 Art District. With the name of Pop Galo, the Portuguese artist says that this work, with 10 meters, was “Inspired by one of the most relevant symbols of Portuguese culture, the Barcelos cock; Pop Galo […]

    The most recent sculpture by Joana Vasconcelos, a plastic artist, was inaugurated on March 26 in Beijing in the 798 Art District.

    With the name of Pop Galo, the Portuguese artist says that this work, with 10 meters, was “Inspired by one of the most relevant symbols of Portuguese culture, the Barcelos cock; Pop Galo reconciles the tradition of national tiles with LED technology “.

    The inauguration ceremony was part of the official visit of the Portuguese Government to the Republic of China, with one of the objectives of promoting Portugal as a tourist destination.

  • 7 April 2017

    THE PAINTER PAULA REGO, SECRETS AND STORIES

    Inaugurates today the series dedicated to the depression, of 2007, in a biographical exhibition of the artist, in Cascais Mermaids flying, hanging from the ceiling. An enormous cloth octopus on a corner of the sofa. Drawings glued together on the walls, among old family photographs. On the desk, a book about animals, open on the […]

    Inaugurates today the series dedicated to the depression, of 2007, in a biographical exhibition of the artist, in Cascais

    Mermaids flying, hanging from the ceiling. An enormous cloth octopus on a corner of the sofa. Drawings glued together on the walls, among old family photographs. On the desk, a book about animals, open on the pages dedicated to bats, with detailed illustrations of their wings. Dolls.

    Some of the objects to find in the exhibition Paula Rego: Stories & Secrets, which the House of Stories in Cascais.

  • 7 April 2017

    TO THE SOUTH OF CAIRO, DISCOVERY OF A NEW PYRAMID

    Ruins of a pyramid built 3,700 years ago were discovered in Egypt. So far, among the structures found in the royal necropolis (cemetery of ancient civilizations) in Dahshur, south of Cairo, are a corridor and a block with ten lines of hieroglyphs. The discovered parts of the pyramid are in good condition, and more excavations […]

    Ruins of a pyramid built 3,700 years ago were discovered in Egypt. So far, among the structures found in the royal necropolis (cemetery of ancient civilizations) in Dahshur, south of Cairo, are a corridor and a block with ten lines of hieroglyphs.

    The discovered parts of the pyramid are in good condition, and more excavations will be carried out to reveal more parts (of the structure).

    Dahshur is where Pharaoh Seneferu of the 4th Dynasty built the first pyramid of smooth walls of ancient Egypt, the 104-meter-high Red Pyramid, about 4,600 years ago.