Get to know the suggestions to make the best of your weekend in Matosinhos
Qualifica – Education, Training, Youth and Employment Fair
From March 1 to 4, at Exponor, more than a hundred exhibitors will present the professions of the future.
Free activity for the school public/ General public: 4€.
More information at https://qualifica.exponor.pt/
When: March 1 to 4, 2023 | schedule: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Where: Exponor, Leça da Palmeira
Caminhada Verde - Walk
The Municipality of Matosinhos invites you to participate in an outdoor walk in the green spaces of our municipality and in close contact with trees, these ancient beings. The initiative "The tree in the urban space", contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals, namely SDG 3, 13 and 15.
Target audience: general public. Registration through the link: https://forms.gle/7u7zUBstqBU2qcXd9
When: March 4, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Where: Parque das Varas
29º Kings Grand Prix
Another edition of the race "Grande Prémio dos Reis" is back. After the postponement due to weather conditions, the initiative is scheduled for next Saturday, by 10:00 am, and will run through the streets surrounding the City Hall of Matosinhos.
This road athletics event is aimed at young athletes with intellectual disabilities and school sports, from various parts of the country.
When: March 4, 10h00
Where: Matosinhos
Cabo do Mundo Cup 2023 - Kartódromo do Cabo do Mundo
3rd round of the "Cape World Cup 2023".
Information and registration at https://cabodomundokarting.pt
Organized by Cabo do Mundo Karting Track with the support of Matosinhos Sport.
When: March 4
Where: Kartódromo do Cabo do Mundo
Mega Zumba Class “Juntos pela Igualdade”
In order to promote physical activity, the Pavilion of the Centro de Recreio Popular da Freguesia de Lavra receives next Saturday a Zumba mega-class.
An initiative supported by the Matosinhos City Hall and Matosinhos Sport.
When: March 4, 16h00
Where: Pavilhão C.R.P. F. Lavra
Criança traz adulto – Family Sundays - A drawing with WATANUKI
Come and meet one of the artists who visited Matosinhos and was dazzled.
Come draw using Indian ink on tracing paper.
Come to MuMMa, all you have to do is bring your family to impress them.
Activity aimed at families with children aged 6 to 12 years, with advance registration until 48 hours before (until Friday March 3 at 15h).
+ INFO and registration: casadobosque@cm-matosinhos.pt or 229 392 410
When: 5 março, 15h00
Where: Museu da Memória de Matosinhos
Casa das Máquinas – Free guided tours
Visit the engine room of a municipal pool and find out what it looks and how it works. Learn how millions of liters of water are heated and treated daily, among other data and curiosities.
The first cycle of guided visits (lasting 45 min. approximately) will be at the municipal pool of Senhora da Hora, on March 4, 11, 18 and 25.
Registration is free, but mandatory. Limited availability.
More information at the reception of the pools.
When: March 4, 11, 18, and 25, 9 a.m./10 p.m.
Where: Piscina Municipal da Senhora da Hora
Exhibition of watercolors entitled "O Pedro gosta do Afonso"
As part of the launch of the children's book "O Pedro gosta do Afonso" by Mariana Jones, on February 18, an exhibition of Luís Melo's watercolors, used to illustrate the book, is on display until March 11, at the Florbela Espanca Municipal Library Gallery.
The book's illustrations will be on display at the Florbela Espanca Municipal Library Gallery until March 11, Monday through Friday, from 9am to 7pm, and on Saturdays, from 9:30am to 12:30pm and from 1:30pm to 5:30pm. Admission is free. On Sunday, the gallery is closed.
When: until March 11, 2023
Where: Municipal Library Gallery Florbela Espanca
Architecture for all - Free Guided Tours of the House of Architecture
The Casa da Arquitectura promotes, starting next Sunday, guided tours to the Casa da Arquitectura. The initiative is free and will take place every Sunday at 11am.
When: Sundays, at 11am
Where: Casa da Arquitectura
Exhibition “Dias de Guerra”
February 24, 2023 marks one year since the beginning of the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia. A barbarism that was hoped to be short-lived, but unfortunately persists, and in a context of escalation that does not glimpse a promising future.
Intending to give the look and the voice of all those who still fight emerging in the hope of a near future smoother, Matosinhos marks this day with the opening of the exhibition "The Days of War": a photographic record experienced in the first person by photojournalist Rui Caria, to whose images are added texts by Manuela Niza Ribeiro. A hard exhibition, of enormous realism and emotion, although with subtle nuances of hope and faith.
The opening of the exhibition will be attended by Rui Caria and Manuela Niza Ribeiro, as well as by the Ukrainian lyric singer Serhii Alkin - a refugee in Portugal, welcomed by Matosinhos, who will perform two themes of traditional Ukrainian music.
When: February 24 - March 26, 2023
Where: Matosinhos Municipal Market
Temporary exhibition "Romagem à saudade"
Inserted in the initiative "Mar de Luz" which marked over three days the 75 years of the 1947 Shipwreck, the exhibition "Romagem de Saudade" will be open until March 19, 2023 at MuMMa - Matosinhos Memory Museum.
This exhibition aims to honor the fishermen who perished at sea, as well as their families. The exhibition focuses on the experiential, documentary and material memories allusive to the Shipwreck of 1947.
Besides the collection of the Matosinhos City Hall, several entities, such as the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, NAPESMATE - Núcleo de Amigos dos Pescadores de Matosinhos, APAM - Associação dos Pescadores Aposentados de Matosinhos, or the Matosinhos Fishermen's Ranch, have actively collaborated in this project, through the donation of numerous objects and documents, most of which are being exhibited for the first time.
On land, the tragedy of the despair of the women, with no news of their husbands and sons, the prayers said and the cries of distress made the night even darker. This tragedy impressed the painter Augusto Gomes, who, in several of his works, portrayed the pain and despair of these women, helpless before the fury of the sea.
Another iconic work of the artist from Matosinhos related to the 1947 Shipwreck is the imposing and disturbing canvas "Untitled", better known as "The Family". Augusto Gomes paid homage to the victims and their families, apparently at the request of the Matosinhos City Council. The painting was for several years in the old Lota of Matosinhos, with an alms box beside it. The large oil, in gray tones, depicts a fisherman's family in despair. The triangular composition in the foreground over the emptiness that surrounds the figures reinforces the dramatic charge of the whole painting. Father, mother, and children are represented incarnating and sacralizing a universal pain.
A year after this sad episode, João Martins da Costa, a painter born in Coimbra, presents the canvas "O Mar Sagrado - Tragédia marítima de 2 de Dezembro" (The Sacred Sea - December 2nd Maritime Tragedy) as his final course work at the Fine Arts University of Oporto. The theme is imbued with dramatic symbolism, following the religious representations of the "Lamentations over the Dead Christ" (also called Pietá), but with the figures of the fishermen's families taking the place of the sacred characters.
In addition to works of art, the exhibition also includes models of the 4 sunken trawlers, as well as a panoply of objects that reveal the daily life and religiosity of the fishermen of the time, maritime banknotes and newspapers of the period.
When: until March 19, 2023
Where: MuMMa - Museu da Memória de Matosinhos
Exhibition "Sapatilhas - Marcas Portuguesas do Estado Novo ao Virar do Milénio"
At a time when sneakers are gaining a global dimension as one of the icons of contemporary culture, Casa do Design inaugurates this exhibition curated by Pedro Carvalho de Almeida, to showcase a part of the legacy of the national sports footwear industry. Starting from a unique collection of over 500 models of sneakers representing a universe of 100 brands designed and manufactured in Portugal, this exhibition explores the cultural, social, political and economic significance that the brands represent. It proposes a brief historical contextualization, an in-depth reading of the Sanjo and Cortebel brands, but above all the revelation of a surprising collection of other brands characterized by small series, models for different sports practices and their packaging.
When: until August 27, 2023
Where: Casa do Design
Exhibition “Matosinhos, Lugar e Memória"
The temporary exhibition of the Museum of Memory "Matosinhos Place and Memory" was inaugurated in August 2022, as part of the celebrations of the 1st anniversary of the Matosinhos Memory Museum.
Using a selection of photographs by Gabriele Basilico, belonging to the Municipality's collection, the exhibition contrasts these same records today: the urban and industrial landscapes captured by Basilico in the project "A City Like This" (1996), are now portrayed in the present time.
More than 25 years separate these photographic captures, and in this counterpoint it is possible to see and feel the city: its evolution, the response it has given to new civilizational challenges and the growing needs of its population.
Admission 1,00€ (includes visit to the permanent exhibition + temporary exhibition)
When: until March 2023
Where: MuMMa - Museu da Memória de Matosinhos
Exhibition “Linhas de Vento. Percursos Artísticos na Natureza” - Obras da coleção da Fundação de Serralves
The group exhibition is composed of a set of works by international artists associated with the land art or earthworks movement, such as Richard Long, Hamish Fulton and Ana Mendieta, who, from the late 1960s, took nature as a starting point for the creation of works conceived outside their studios. The show establishes a dialogue between the works of these artists with the works of some of the biggest names in Portuguese contemporary art, such as Alberto Carneiro, Fernando Lanhas, Lourdes Castro, and Luísa Cunha.
In "Lines of Wind. Percursos artísticos na natureza" a cross between painting and drawing, sculpture, photographic and audiovisual record of actions and performance in the natural environment, thus establishing their artistic works in close relationship with territory, anthropology, geology as well as ecology.
When: until April 23rd, 2023
Where: Municipal Gallery of Matosinhos
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Give wings to your imagination and come fly through the magical world of books and charming stories!
During Storytime, the stories, almost always simple narratives and short stories, are told to excite and awaken the imagination of the younger ones.
When: Saturday at 11am or 3pm
Where: Municipal Library Florbela Espanca
ECO-MARKET - Organic products fair
On Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., in Jardim Basílio Teles, there is an organic produce fair, where you can find alternatives for a healthier and tastier diet.
More information www.cm-matosinhos.pt/servicos-municipais/ambiente/eco-mercado When: Saturdays from 8am to 1pm
Where: Basílio Teles Garden
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