Roman Theater

Light has always been with us, even when we didn't know how to make, preserve or use it. The history of mankind, our history, is made up of light and its absence, and everything we do conforms to this premise.

This small exhibition looks at the evolution of objects used to illuminate our lives, from the lamps of Roman times and the 8th century to medieval lamps, culminating in the electric bulb and LED strips.

Through a series of pieces, we follow the technical, aesthetic and symbolic transformations of these objects, reflecting changes in lifestyles, the materials used and the relationship between societies and light.

Opening: February 3 at 18:00. Free entry, subject to capacity.

The archaeologist excavates places or papers, layer after layer, sheet after sheet.

Where does he start? What tools does he use? From a small shard, what can we discover?

We explore concepts of archaeology and the work of the archaeologist. We discover the variety and richness of the stories that the testimonies of the past transmit to us, as objects of their time, and the various worlds they contain. We invite visitors to be archaeologists for a few hours, exploring concepts of archaeology and the work of the archaeologist.

Drawing can be a vehicle for emancipation, belonging and raising awareness.

The Lisbon Drawing Club is a community of live model drawing lovers who meet regularly to draw and socialize. Based on the principles of Community, Inclusion, Practice and Fun, they have been organizing weekly meetings in different cultural/social venues in Lisbon since May 2021. They are interested in working with a diversity of models that reflect the richness of our social heritage and encourage a practice of empathy, working with a plurality of bodies, gestures and identities represented by professional models, artists, folk groups, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, seniors, inhabitants of different neighborhoods and others. They organize monthly drawing classes (Masterclasses) with guest artists.

The collective is currently made up of: Lígia Fernandes (PT), Nicole Sánchez (PT), Marianne Maina (FR), Susanne Malorny (DE), Rita Dias (PT), Joana Leal (PT), Simone Lackner (AT), Greg Hannan (UK), Daniela Viçoso (PT), Rita Bourbon (PT)

World Plumbing Day aims to highlight the challenges of access to sanitation and clean water.

Water pipes and drainage systems are very abundant structures in the archaeological record, particularly in urban areas. As they are usually built underground - infrastructures - and their operation provides stratigraphically informative collapses, they are a source of archaeological data with extraordinary potential.

This lecture will try out a transversal approach to this type of structure throughout the city's history.

By Jacinta Bugalhão, archaeologist and researcher at UNIARQ

On this visit, we see material testimonies and uncover ways of life, ending by the river, an area where real fish preparation factories and amphora warehouses used to accumulate.

The meeting point is the Roman Theater, where comedies and tragedies were performed on festive days, and then we head down the hill.

Teresina is a music project that celebrates the popular heritage of southern Italy, by the duo Teresa Corrado and Salvatore Cortone. Pizzica, tarantella and tammurriata meet original songs and ancestral memories, in a fusion of tradition and contemporaneity.

The duo intertwines Mediterranean roots with new sounds, in a dialog between past and present, celebration and ritual, and brings to life the volcanic energy of southern Italy: pagan rituals, trance and freedom that cross centuries and remain in the songs and stories of a rural world that is slowly disappearing.

During the concert, each song is an invitation: a bit of history, a bit of celebration, a living account of popular festivals, rural traditions and ancestral energies that still vibrate in the music and in the hearts of those who listen. The audience is not just attending a concert, but a journey through rhythms, melodies and gestures that speak of a people and their land.

Voice, concertina, percussions, Calabrian lyre: Teresa Corrado

Guitar and harmonica: Salvatore Cortone