Quinta Alegre - A Theater in Every Neighborhood

Our elderly neighbors sit around the table with little treasures, tea and cookies - and add their own stories to the ones inside the books. You don't need to know the letters, there are many ways to read a book or the world.

There are always free seats, preferably for the over-65s, who are always well received by this group.

An ongoing reading project that takes place twice a month.

Contact us if you'd like to come along to a session.

With Dora Batalim Sotto Mayor

During the Colonial War, thousands of Africans fought alongside the Portuguese Armed Forces and risked their lives for a homeland they believed to be their own. After April 25, when Portugal withdrew from the territories it occupied in Africa, these soldiers were left behind. 50 years later, they are telling their story for the first time. They no longer fear reprisals, nor are they afraid to speak out. They want their names to be remembered. And to be given back the rights they won on the battlefield.

Quinta Alegre and Divergente, a digital magazine of narrative journalism, are teaming up until February to present and talk about films with very pertinent and current themes. The theme of each film is also the motto for exploring the rest of Quinta Alegre's programming proposed for each month. At the end of the screening, there will be a conversation led by the members of this collective of journalists, a person from the Santa Clara area and the audience.

There have been many visits in recent months and a lot of work has been done away from the palace. The pieces created are now shown to the public in a group exhibition that is another way of artistically occupying the palace, in the second year of collaboration between Quinta Alegre - Um Teatro em Cada Bairro and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.

Opening: January 26 at 17:30

Now that we've left Christmas behind, let's go back to 1971, the year in which the Women's National Movement produced a record to give to soldiers at war.

In January, we saved the afternoon for a documentary that takes us back more than half a century.

By Margarida Cardoso

The Sala das Artes is also a Seventh Art venue. Once a month, Cinemateca Júnior leaves home and moves to Quinta Alegre, with films that motivate the exchange of ideas between people of different ages. Funny, exciting, wonderful, the stories seen at the movies also serve to talk about lives and realities - our own and those of others.