Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
UK Branch
Portuguese Diary
2010 Events
Rodrigo Leão at the Barbican, Atlantic Waves 2008. Photo: Alex Delfanne
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9-14 Feb |
Hackney Wick |
X Street - a site-specific live art performance based on research and interviews conducted in the area, exploring how everyday life is reshaped by outside factors and how the idea of community and sharing evolves from them. The audience, driven in a minibus and wearing wireless headphones, will be immersed in a “real-fictive” world and witness a real-time car accident and its repercussions within the local community. The sound is in perfect synchronization with the live action and follows different characters into their homes, cars, shops, pockets and even inside their minds. |
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7 Feb |
Barbican Hall |
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sir Eliot Gardiner and pianist Maria João Pires perform Beethoven's Egamont, Piano Concerto No 2 and Symphony No 6 ('Pastoral'). |
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25-26 Jan |
Royal Festival Hall |
Grammy Award winning singer Mariza returns to the UK to captivate audiences with her personal take on fado, the breathtakingly lyrical and melancholic music of Portugal, which she infuses with the musical flavours of Brazil, Spain and Mozambique to enchant audiences around the world. |
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27 Jan-9 May |
The Foundling Museum |
Paula Rego, Tracey Emin and Mat Collishaw show new and related works at the Foundling Museum in London. All of the works link to the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first home for abandoned children, and its themes of childhood and separation. The exhibition includes paintings, works on paper, bronzes and installations throughout its eighteenth-century interiors as well as external spaces. |
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3 Feb-21 Mar |
Ikon Gallery |
On the Movement of the Fried Egg and Other Astronomical Bodies, the first UK exhibition of work by João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, two Lisbon-based artists responsible for the highly acclaimed Portuguese representation at the 2009 Venice Biennial – Experiments and Observations of Different Kinds of Air. At Ikon, they will be presenting a newly commissioned body of 16mm films developed alongside a publication, which offers the starting point for the new work. |
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6 Feb |
Bridgewater Hall |
Grammy Award winning singer Mariza returns to the UK to captivate audiences with her personal take on fado, the breathtakingly lyrical and melancholic music of Portugal, which she infuses with the musical flavours of Brazil, Spain and Mozambique to enchant audiences around the world. |
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7 Feb |
Brighton Dome |
Mariza on tour. |
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8 Feb |
Warwick Arts Centre |
Mariza on tour. |
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9 Feb |
The Sage Gateshead |
Mariza on tour. |
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9 Feb-31 Mar |
John Hansard Gallery |
Portuguese artist Helena Almeida presents a selection of works made over the last 40 years in a major solo exhibition. Most of Almeida's work takes the form of black and white photographs, but this exhibition, shown earlier at Kettle's Yard, will also include early objects, a sound piece and video work. |
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Feb-Dec |
St. John's |
Internationally celebrated pianist Artur Pizarro performs a cycle of the complete solo piano works of Chopin over 9 recitals, between February and December, to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. Concerts will take place on the following dates: 7th and 23rd February, 16th March, 20th April, 11th May, 21st September, 26th October, 23rd November, and 7th December. |
About this List
This list is published by the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It provides only an indication of forthcoming Portugal-related cultural events and is not necessarily exhaustive. The Foundation cannot be held responsible for any changes to the events scheduled.
We welcome any additional information about events for future listings. If you wish to submit details of an event, please contact:
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