What not to miss this weekend in Matosinhos

Discover the suggestions for making the most of your weekend in Matosinhos

Shall we ask nature? - Lecture

• inaugural lecture: "Natural and built wetlands and their potential as SbN" | Marisa Almeida | 14/04, 17h | CMIA Matosinhos

The CMIA of Matosinhos, the CMIA of Vila do Conde and CIIMAR created a new exhibition entitled “Let's ask Nature?” which will be on display at the CMIA in Matosinhos, starting on the 14th of April and which aims to make known some of the Solutions based on Nature.

The inaugural lecture of the exhibition will be given by the researcher Marisa Almeida from CIIMAR, who will talk about natural and built wetlands and their potential as Nature-based solutions for the reduction/elimination of pollutants from aquatic environments, this will start at 5:15 pm at the CMIA in Matosinhos, on the 14th of April.

Target audience: general public

When: April 14, 5:15 pm

Where: CMIA of Matosinhos

Chocolate Festival – Fair

Until April 16, an air-conditioned tent located on Rua Alfredo Cunha, in front of the PSP in Matosinhos, close to the City Hall, hosts 25 exhibitors who will make known the most diverse delicacies that will have chocolate as a common link.

Crepes, waffles, bombocas, tablets, fruit skewers with chocolate, bonbons, chocolate waterfalls, hot chocolate, there are options for all tastes.

Organized by the Municipality of Matosinhos in partnership with ANDARTE – National Association for the Development of Handicrafts, the event also has parallel animation with workshops and showcookings.

The workshops are aimed at children between 3 and 8 years old and will be held on April 16 (Sunday), at 11:30 am. Entries are mandatory, limited to the number of places available, and should be sent to andarte2008@gmail.com.

You can also participate in the free showcookings that will take place from April 11th to 13th, at 9:30 pm.

The Chocolate Festival can be visited from Monday to Thursday from 12:00 to 23:00, on Fridays from 12:00 to 24:00, on Saturdays from 11:00 to 24:00 and on Sundays from 11:00 to 23:00.

Entry is free.

When: March 31st to April 16th

Where: Rua Alfredo Cunha, in front of the PSP in Matosinhos

AURÉLIA DE SOUZA International Congress. WOMEN ARTISTS in 1900

As part of the celebrations for the centenary of the death of Aurélia de Souza, the Institute of Art History (IHA) of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH), the National Museum of Soares dos Reis (MNSR) and Matosinhos City Council will organize, on the 13th and 14th of April 2023, the AURÉLIA DE SOUZA International Congress. WOMEN ARTISTS in 1900.

The international congress is a unique opportunity to present not only the work of Aurélia de Souza and her role as a woman artist, in the light of the interpretation of several national and international researchers, but also to meet other women artists forgotten by the History and History of Art.

Aurélia de Souza (1866-1922) is one of the most outstanding personalities of Portuguese art in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. His work takes on some of the major themes of European painting at the time, with emphasis on the continued practice of self-portrait and self-representation that extends to the construction of pictorial narratives involving the family home and its people. Another original aspect of Aurélia's work is the practice of photography as a component, with a remarkable degree of autonomy, of the work of painting.

Aurélia was a brilliant student at the Porto Academy of Fine Arts and completed her training in Paris, where she attended the Académie Julian (accompanied by her sister, Sofia de Souza, who is also a painter). Well connected with the Porto artistic and cultural milieu, she also participated in exhibitions in Lisbon, with the determined attitude of asserting herself as a professional painter in a predominantly male environment in which female artists should not aspire to anything more than the benevolent status of amateurs.

The municipality, an integral part of the celebrations, already presented in 2022 the exhibition “Aurélia de Souza. What I see” at the Quinta de Santiago Museum and currently has several works from her collection on display at the Soares dos Reis National Museum, in the exhibition dedicated to the artist, “Aurélia de Souza, Vida e Segredo” open until May 21.

Program and registration available here: www.aureliadesousa.weebly.com

When: April 13th to 15th

Where:

April 13: Matosinhos City Council – Main Hall of the Town Hall

April 14th and 15th: National Museum of Soares dos Reis (MNSR) – Auditorium

ECO CENTRO MÓVEL - Waste Separation

To provide citizens with a solution on what to do with small waste that can be recyclable and that should not be deposited in ecopoints, so that they are not placed in containers on the public road for undifferentiated waste, the Municipality of Matosinhos, in partnership with LIPOR , has two mobile eco-centers in the county.

When: April 12th to 18th

Where: Matosinhos and Senhora da Hora

Matosinhos (The intersection between Rua Heróis de França and Rua Carlos Carvalho) and Senhora da Hora (in front of the EB1 JI da Barranha school, on Av. Vasco da Gama)

Expomecânica - Fair

“ExpoMECÂNICA has become the new aftermarket destination and the event where the sector does business. From April 14 to 16, 2023, the automotive aftermarket will present at Exponor – Feira Internacional do Porto, innovations and solutions in the areas of parts and systems, accessories, repair and maintenance, IT and service station management. It is, therefore, the ideal platform to promote products and services for an important sector that generates business, present market trends, boost sales, strengthen brand image, analyze competition, retain and win new customers, strengthen relationships with a highly qualified purchasing public”.

Entrance prohibited for children under 14 years old.

More information: here

When: April 14th to 16th, 2023

Where: Exponor - Porto International Fair

Portuguese Cup 2nd Pan - Sailing Event

The Optimist Class Portugal Cup - 2nd PAN of this sailing event, optimist class - will take place from April 12th to 15th in the Marina and Basin of Leixões.

When: April 12th to 15th

Where: Marina and Leixões Basin

Liga In Golf Hotel & Spa - Sailing Trial

Throughout the 16th of April, the Sailing Trial, open class - stage 2, will take place.

Organization of Clube de Vela Atlântico, with support from Matosinhos Sport and Matosinhos City Council.

When: April 16, 2023

Where: Marina and Leixões Basin

North Surf Circuit - Surfing competition

On the 13th and 14th of April, at Praia Internacional Porto/Matosinhos (or Praia de Leça da Palmeira), the Junior Surf Competition will take place.

Organization Portuguese Surfing Federation and Onda do Norte Association. Support from Matosinhos City Council and Matosinhos Sport.

When: April 13th and 14th

Where: Praia Internacional Porto/Matosinhos (or Praia de Leça da Palmeira)

Junior Tour 202 - Surf Test

On the 15th and 16th of April, at Praia Internacional Porto/Matosinhos (or Praia de Leça da Palmeira), the 1st Race of the National Junior Pro Circuit will take place.

Organized by ANS-Associação Nacional de Surfistas and the Portuguese Surfing Federation, with the support of Porto and Matosinhos City Councils and Matosinhos Sport.

When: April 15th and 16th

Where: Praia Internacional Porto/Matosinhos (or Praia de Leça da Palmeira)

Junior Swimming Festival - Swimming Trial

Organized by Matosinhos Sport, swimming competitions, not timed, for different levels of children, will take place in the municipal swimming pools, on the 15th and 16th of April.

When and where:

April 15th

9:30 am – Municipal Swimming Pool of Leça do Balio

15h00 – Custóias Municipal Swimming Pool

15h00 – Municipal Swimming Pool of Perafita

16h00 – Municipal Swimming Pool of Matosinhos

April 16th

9h00 – Municipal Swimming Pool of Guiões

10:15 – Municipal Swimming Pool of São Mamede de Infesta

14:00 – Senhora da Hora Municipal Swimming Pool

Family Orchestra - Music

Orquestra de Famílias started a new project out of doors, in the União de Freguesias de São Mamede Infesta and Senhora da Hora, and is recruiting young and old with a desire to sing, play, build rhythm with their bodies, write lyrics and improvise.

At Orquestra de Famílias, the invitation is made to all those who feel music in their own way and want to share that happiness in artistic creation sessions, in a relaxed atmosphere.

From the 25th, the São Mamede Civic Center (Rua do Centro 2, 4465-166) will be the stage for these meetings. Access is free and families of all ages are expected. Entries can be made via the email ofm@ojm.pt

Sessions at the São Mamede Civic Center will take place on April 22, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm; May 14th, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm; and May 27th from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.

Guided by Sara Vilar, Ana Conceição and Beatriz Rôla, the Orquestra de Famílias is a project of the educational program of the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos, created in 2018, with the support of the Municipality of Matosinhos.

When: March 25th to April 22nd

Where: São Mamede Civic Center (Rua do Centro 2, 4465-166)

The struggle of Matosinhos fishermen during fascism - Documentary Exhibition

This is a documental exhibition, with an organization shared by the Municipality of Matosinhos and the Directorate of the Regional Organization of Porto of the Portuguese Communist Party, seeking to make known and honor generations of fishermen who, in Matosinhos, fought for their rights and for better living conditions, while facing the repression of the fascist dictatorship that haunted the country for almost half a century.

Particular emphasis is given to the 71-day strike, between the 10th of April and the 20th of June 1959, from which the fishermen were victorious, as well as several other days of struggle carried out by the class, until the revolution of the 25th of April. from 1974.

When: April 1st to May 14th

Where: Florbela Espanca Municipal Library Gallery

[From the Archive] Matosinhos Not Built – Exhibition

It is the first exhibition entirely produced by Casa da Arquitectura and dedicated to the collections that are in the care of the Archive.

This exhibition focuses on projects that were partially built, built and demolished or never built by names such as Eduardo Souto de Moura, Fernanda Seixas, Francisco Melo, Jorge Gigante, José Almeida, José Gigante, Manuel Correia Fernandes, Pedro Mendo, Pedro Ramalho, Teresa Fonseca.

When: Until April, at ticket office hours

Where: House of Architecture

Architecture for everyone - Free guided tours

From next Sunday, Casa da Arquitetura promotes guided visits to Casa da Arquitectura. The initiative is free and will take place every Sunday at 11am.

When: Sundays at 11am

Where: Casa da Arquitectura

"Sneakers - Portuguese Brands from the New State to the Turn of the Millennium" - Exhibition

“Sneakers: Portuguese Brands from the New State to the Turn of the Millennium” is the exhibition that opened on February 11, 2023, at Casa do Design, in Matosinhos.

At a time when sneakers gain a global dimension as one of the icons of contemporary culture, Casa do Design inaugurates this exhibition curated by Pedro Carvalho de Almeida, to show part of the legacy of the national sports footwear industry.

Starting from a unique collection of more than 500 sneaker models 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. A brief historical context is proposed, 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 the respective packaging.

The result of a co-production between the Municipality of Matosinhos / esad—idea, Research in Design and Art and the Institute for Research in Design Media and Culture (ID+), the exhibition simultaneously proposes a historical retrospective and a space for critical reflection, seeking to know how the memory of nationally made sneakers can be rescued, understood and preserved, and how the productive resources we have access to, material and immaterial, can be better used and creatively leveraged.

Between March and June, the role of the designer as a collector, the connections between design, industry and handicrafts, as well as the challenges and opportunities in sustainable development, are discussed.

Upcoming conversations:

April 22, Saturday, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm – Design and Crafts

May 27th, Saturday, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm – Design and Industry

June 17th, Saturday, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm – Towards an Ecology of Design

When: Until August 27, 2023

Where: Casa do Design, Matosinhos - Paços do Concelho Building, Rua de Alfredo Cunha, Matosinhos “Wind Lines. Artistic Routes in Nature” - Works from the Serralves Foundation collection

The collective exhibition comprises 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 onwards, took nature as the starting point for their the creation of works conceived outside the ateliers. The exhibition establishes a dialogue between the works of these artists and works by some of the biggest names in Portuguese contemporary art, such as Alberto Carneiro, Fernando Lanhas, Lourdes Castro and Luísa Cunha. We found it in “Lines of Wind. Artistic paths in nature” a cross between painting and drawing, sculpture, photographic and audiovisual recording of actions and performance in the natural environment, thus establishing his artistic works in close relationship with the territory, anthropology, geology as well as ecology.

When: Until April 23, 2023

Where: Municipal Gallery of Matosinhos

“Antonio Carneiro. The poet with brushes” – Exhibition

In the year in which the 150th anniversary of the birth of the artist António Carneiro (1872-1930) is celebrated, the Municipality of Matosinhos remembers the painter widely represented in the municipal artistic collection with the inauguration of the retrospective exhibition “António Carneiro. The poet with brushes”.

The exhibition, the largest in the last 50 years of this poet and painter, takes place in Matosinhos, at the Quinta de Santiago Museum, and is open until February 26, 2023.

There are around 70 works, objects and documents, some of them unpublished or almost unknown, by the only Portuguese symbolist painter, which can be seen in this museum space in Leça da Palmeira from Tuesday to Friday, between 10am and 1pm and 3pm and 6pm , and on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays between 3 pm and 6 pm.

António Carneiro (1872-1930) was born in Amarante on September 16, 1872, this year celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of this great plastic artist, considered one of the greatest Portuguese painters, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

A singular artist, with a dreamy and melancholic nature, «a painter greater than the country», in addition to being a landscaper, he was a portraitist, history painter, illustrator and poet.

Admission: 1€ (without ATM) – Free entry at opening and every Sunday

When: Until April 30, 2023

Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10am-1pm and 3pm-6pm; Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, 3 pm to 6 pm. As of April 1, the Museum opens with summer hours and the exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to 18:00.

Where: Museum of Quinta de Santiago

We count on you! – Tell tales

Give wings to your imagination and come fly through the magical world of books and enchanting stories! During the Story Time, the stories, almost always simple narratives and short stories, are told in such a way as to enthuse and awaken the imagination of the youngest.

When: Saturday at 11am or 3pm

Where: Florbela Espanca Municipal Library

ECO-MERCADO – Organic products fair

On Saturdays, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, in Jardim Basílio Teles, there is a fair of vegetables produced in organic farming, where you can find healthier and tastier food alternatives.

More information: here

When: Saturdays from 8 am to 1 pm

Where: Jardim Basilio Teles