What you can't miss this weekend in Matosinhos

Get to know the suggestions to make the best of your weekend in Matosinhos

1st Regional Cup XCO - ACP - Picoutos Park

The cyclocross // btt competition will take place next Sunday morning, February 26, at Picoutos Park.

It is organized by Clube BTT de Matosinhos, with the support of Associação de Ciclismo do Porto, Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos and Matosinhos Sport.

When: February 26th, morning

Where: Picoutos Park

"Soirée Notes" - Quinta de Santiago Museum

It is already next Friday, at 9:30 pm, that the Quinta de Santiago Museum receives a musical performance by the Leça da Palmeira Music School.

This will be the first session of "Notes of Soirée", a partnership between the municipal museums and two music schools of the county, the Music School of Leça da Palmeira and the Óscar da Silva Music School.

As part of a strategy to bring museums closer to the community, they will open their doors to those who are closest to them.

While the program of the Quinta de Santiago Museum will be the responsibility of the Leça da Palmeira Music School, already this month, the Matosinhos Memory Museum, more precisely the Hall of Mirrors, will have its programming streamlined, starting in March, by the Óscar da Silva Music School.

This partnership is born from the will to provide future artists with a stage for live performances, thus developing their skills, but also from the intention to diversify the programming of these cultural spaces, welcoming new audiences and providing differentiated experiences in community.

Get to know the program and come to the museums! Admission is free, but limited to the capacity of the rooms.

More information at https://www.cm-matosinhos.pt/servicos-municipais/comunicacao-e-imagem/eventos/evento/notas-de-soiree

When: February 24th, at 9:30pm

Where: Quinta de Santiago Museum

Urban Sketchers Meeting - Matosinhos Municipal Market

Urban Sketchers Portugal Norte is a collective of Portuguese authors who draw in notebooks, what they observe in everyday life. The everyday life of people, places, spaces, buildings, objects, etc.. What surrounds the designer, where he lives or where he travels... everything is a good reason to unleash creativity and draw... on the 25th the trip is to our Market in Matosinhos that every day fills up with people from all over, in a building with more than 70 years of history and that still has so much to tell... don't miss this opportunity to watch another creativity invasion in the Market of the best flavors and tastes!

When: February 25th, from 10am

Where: Matosinhos Municipal Market

Exhibition of watercolors entitled "O Pedro gosta do Afonso" - Municipal Library Gallery Florbela Espanca

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

Temporary exhibition "Romagem à saudade" - Matosinhos Memory Museum

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 - Matosinhos Memory Museum

Exhibition "Sapatilhas - Marcas Portuguesas do Estado Novo ao Virar do Milénio" - Casa do Design, Matosinhos

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, Matosinhos - Edifício Paços do Concelho, Rua de Alfredo Cunha, Matosinhos

Exhibition "António Carneiro. The poet with paintbrushes" - Quinta de Santiago Museum

In the year that celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the artist António Carneiro (1872-1930), the Matosinhos City Hall remembers the painter widely represented in the municipal art collection with the inauguration of the retrospective exhibition "António Carneiro. The poet with brushes".

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

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

António Carneiro (1872-1930) was born in Amarante on September 16th, 1872. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of this great painter, considered one of the greatest Portuguese painters of the late 19th century and early 20th century.

A singular artist, of a dreamy and melancholic nature, "a painter bigger than the country", besides being a landscape painter, he was also a portraitist, history painter, illustrator and poet.

Admission: 1€ (without ATM terminal) - Free admission at the opening and every Sunday

When: until February 26, 2023

Where: Quinta de Santiago Museum

Exhibition "Matosinhos, Place and Memory" - Matosinhos Memory Museum

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: Matosinhos Memory Museum

Exhibition "Wind Lines. Artistic Journeys in Nature" - Works from the Serralves Foundation Collection

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

We are counting on you! - Florbela Espanca Municipal Library

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

Good neighbors shop in Matosinhos - Matosinhos

The Matosinhos City Hall continues its commitment to a strategy of boosting the traditional commerce in Matosinhos. In this sense, and in partnership with the Business Association of the Municipality of Matosinhos, the contest "Good neighbors do shopping in Matosinhos" is underway, another campaign launched with the aim of encouraging shopping in traditional commerce in the municipality. The contest consists of awarding prizes, through a raffle, to all those who make purchases of €20 or more at participating stores through the use of the "Matosinhos Presente" customer card. The contest "Good Neighbors Shopping in Matosinhos" runs until February 28th and two draws will be held. In the first drawing the purchases made until 11:59 pm of January 15th 2023 were considered (the drawing took place on January 24th 2023). In the second draw all purchases made until 11:59pm on February 28, 2023 will be considered, with the exception of the winning entries in the 1st draw (the draw itself will take place on March 9, 2023, at 4pm). The only ones excluded from the 2nd draw will be the winners of the first draw.

More information at: www.cm-matosinhos.pt/servicos-municipais/comunicacao-e-imagem/noticias/noticia/bons-vizinhos-fazem-compras-em-matosinhos and www.matosinhospresente.pt

When: Until February 28

Where: Matosinhos

3rd Edition - Taste Matosinhos - Seafood Edition

One of the most anticipated events of the year is back! After the huge success in the first two editions, the 3rd edition of Degustar Matosinhos - Seafood Edition returns now in February.

Every Thursday in February (February 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd), for lunch or dinner, there are 23 participating spaces where you can taste a fresh seafood platter, for two people, for the fixed price of 60 euros.

Don't miss this opportunity and come taste the best seafood in Matosinhos!

More information in: www.matosinhoswbf.pt/p/menudegustarmatosinhosmarisco When: February 23 (Every Thursday of the month at lunch and dinner)

Where: Adhering catering establishments ECO-MARKET - Organic products fair - Basílio Teles Garden

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

Dolphin Fair - Basílio Teles Garden

Initially regarded as an antiques fair, the Dolphin Fair is now a must for collectors of the whole range of objects, both antique and modern. Books, vinyl records, toys, decoration, coins and stamps, crystals, embroidery, towels, watch and jewelry objects, are some of the items that can be found at this emblematic fair of our municipality, which is always held on the fourth Sunday of each month, from 10am to 6pm, in the Basílio Teles Garden.

When: February 26th, from 10.00am to 6.00pm

Where: Basílio Teles Garden