Festas de Abril

This year, the Festas de Abril take on greater prominence and meaning with the commemorations marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. In Lisbon this momentous event will be remembered and celebrated all around the city: on the street and in various cultural spaces.

See the schedule below ↘

Events

April at Padrão dos Descobrimentos

28 Apr - 30 Nov 2024

Exhibition

Padrão dos Descobrimentos

Monument at sunset. Lake with the monument reflected. In the background: River, 25 de Abril bridge

April at Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar

30 Jan - 26 May 2024

Exhibition; launch

Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar

Tuesday to Sunday, 10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm

people at an exhibition wall with drawings

10 days that shook Portugal

23 Mar - 26 May 2024

Exhibition

Mercado do Forno do Tijolo, Arroios

Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm

April at Galerias Municipais

27 Jan - 05 May 2024

Exhibitions

Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional; Galeria Quadrum; Pavilhão Branco; Galeria da Boavista; Galeria Avenida da Índia

10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm

Black and white photographs of April 25th displayed on a wall

April at Museu Bordalo Pinheiro

07 - 28 Apr 2024

Guided tour

Museu Bordalo Pinheiro

11am

The gate is made of wrought iron and is in the shape of a terrestrial globe with meridians, parallels and floral motifs.

April at Castelo de S. Jorge

14 - 28 Apr 2024

Workshop

Castelo de S. Jorge

10am-12pm

April at Teatro São Luiz

17 - 28 Apr 2024

Concert; Theatre

Teatro São Luiz

April at Teatro do Bairro Alto

03 - 27 Apr 2024

Theater; Talks; Concert

Teatro do Bairro Alto

April at Museu de Lisboa - Teatro Romano

19 - 27 Apr 2024

Guided Tour; theatre; walks

Museu de Lisboa - Teatro Romano

View of the Tagus river from the terrace of the Museum

April at LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões

06 - 27 Apr 2024

Workshop; Animated cinema; Dance; Music

LU.CA - Teatro Luís de Camões

April at Museu da Marioneta

25 - 27 Apr 2024

Puppet Theatre, Workshops

Museu da Marioneta

April at Museu do Aljube

30 Mar - 26 Apr 2024

Routes; Exhibition; Music; Podcast

Museu do Aljube

plaque identifying the Aljube Museum, on the facade, with carnations

April at Casa Fernando Pessoa

01 - 26 Apr 2024

Workshops; Readings; Route; Concert

Casa Fernando Pessoa

Facade with rectangular windows with letters applied to the glass

April at Cinema São Jorge

24 - 25 Apr 2024

Show

Cinema São Jorge

wednesday - 7pm
thursday - 2pm

Uma Ideia de Futuro

24 Apr 2024

Show

Terreiro do Paço

10pm

child's face in the middle of adults (trunks) holding hands

April at Museu do Fado

18 Apr 2024

Talks

Museu do Fado

7pm

Political Festival

03 - 05 Apr 2024

Cinema; Performances; Music, Humor, Exhibitions; Talks

Cinema São Jorge

Image of four hands holding several strings. One of those strings is being cut by a red scissor.

April at Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar

31 Mar - 18 Jun 2023

Exhibition

Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar

Sinais da Liberdade – iconography of democracy in the Ephemera archive

14 Apr - 28 May 2023

Exhibition

Antigo Tribunal da Boa-hora

11 am to 7 pm

April at LU.CA

01 - 30 Apr 2023

Readings, music and theater

LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões

April online

01 - 30 Apr 2023

Stories; music; poetry

online

April at Museu de Lisboa

25 - 29 Apr 2023

Music, visit, route, dance...

Museu de Lisboa

April in Lisbon Libraries

04 - 28 Apr 2023

Exhibitions; workshops; readings; talks; conferences; theater

Bibliotecas de Lisboa

April at Teatro São Luiz

26 Apr 2023

Cinema; theater

São Luiz Teatro Municipal

Os Paços do Concelho de Portas Abertas

25 Apr 2023

Visit

Paços do Concelho, Praça do Município

10h am to 6 pm

April at Museu do Aljube

22 - 25 Apr 2023

Talks, music, theater, cinema, family activities and walks

Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade

49 / 5.000 Resultados de tradução Resultado da tradução Signpost on the facade of the Museum with carnations

April at Museu da Marioneta

25 Apr 2023

Workshop

Museu da Marioneta

10.30 am

April in other spaces of the city

15 - 25 Apr 2023

Tours; urban art; exhibitions; readings; installations; theater

various locations

Abril em Flor

24 Apr 2023

Music

Terreiro do Paço

10 pm

April at Cinema São Jorge

21 - 23 Apr 2023

Festival

Cinema São Jorge

April at Museu Bordalo Pinheiro

22 - 23 Apr 2023

Visit; workshop

Museu Bordalo Pinheiro

Abril at Museu do Fado

21 Apr 2023

Commented concert

Museu do Fado

7 pm

April at Teatro São Luiz

18 - 30 Apr 2022

Programme

Teatro São Luiz

The empty theater from the stage with all the lights on

Banned for being Inconvenient – Censorship materials form the Ephemera Archive

07 - 27 Apr 2022

Exhibitions

Diário de Notícias building

11 am to 6 pm

02 - 25 Apr 2022

Street Art, Outdoors, Visual Arts, Families

Various locations

April at Museu de Lisboa

25 Apr 2022

Outdoors

Various locations

3 pm

April at Museu do Aljube

16 - 25 Apr 2022

Programme

Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade

Freedom Passes Through Here

23 - 24 Apr 2022

Music

Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade

4 pm to 8 pm

Political Festival

21 - 24 Apr 2022

Festival

Cinema São Jorge

Abril no Museu do Aljube

08 - 30 Apr 2021

Programa

Metro: Linhas Azul e Verde (Baixa-Chiado); Autocarro: 12E, 28E e 737

Os cinemas e outros lugares de encontro na Avenida Almirante Reis: uma memória emocional de resistência ao Estado Novo

10 - 25 Apr 2021

Visitas Guiadas

Transmissão online, no Facebook da EGEAC e Cultura na Rua - Festas de Lisboa

Elas também estiveram lá – O Filme

15 - 22 Apr 2021

Teatro

Online

Transmissão online entre das 21h30 às 00h30

Amores na Clandestinidade

16 - 21 Apr 2021

Teatro

Online

Transmissão online das 19h00 às 22h00

Photograph Exhibition “Cultural Promotion Campaigns – 1975”

17 Apr - 30 May 2019

Exhibition

Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade

Freedom to conduct

19 Apr - 23 May 2019

Music

Several locations

From Friday to Tuesday

Memories of April – Video mapping

24 Apr - 01 May 2019

Multimedia

Praça do Comércio

24 april - 9 pm
25 abril a 1 maio - 9 pm, 9:30 pm, 10 pm

Ilustration with Álvaro Cunhal, Sebastião Salgado, José Afonso and Mário Soares

Ocupation

24 - 30 Apr 2019

Teatro

São Luiz Teatro Municipal

Wednesday to Tuesday 09:00 pm

Sala Luiz Miguel Cintra / Teatro São Luiz

Listening in the Dark

19 - 28 Apr 2019

Multimedia

Rank Filmes' Screening Room/ Cinema São Jorge

Several sessions

Colage: child plays the horn to three black figures

04 - 27 Apr 2019

Guided Tours

Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro

4th, 13th and 27th of April - 3pm

Bordalo and April… at Jardim Mário Soares

13 - 27 Apr 2019

Families

Jardim Mário Soares

Several sessions

Zé Povinho and Bordalo Pinheiro in front of the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum

Visit/Game: “Manguito” as a philosophical gesture

06 - 25 Apr 2019

Guided Tours

Museu Bordalo Pinheiro

Several sessions

Fausto Bordalo Dias Band & Orchestra Music & Revolution

24 Apr 2019

Music

Praça do Comércio

9:30 pm

"Carnations as bullets" installation

23 Apr 2019

Exhibition

Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Photo of window with bars at the former Aljube jail

Ecotemporâneos

06 - 20 Apr 2019

Conversas

Estufa Fria, Parque Eduardo VII

Saturday

Once upon a time there was a country like this: all about the Dictatorship and the Revolution

01 - 07 Apr 2019

Theatre

São Luiz - Teatro Municipal

Monday to Sunday

Child's shoes with typewriter on the right

Gaza Girls – Growing up in the Gaza Strip

06 Mar - 30 Apr 2018

Exposições

Parque das Nações

José Dias Coelho – Militant Artist, Revolutionary Militant

25 - 30 Apr 2018

Exhibition

Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade

Freedom to Play

20 - 24 Apr 2018

Music

Several locations

Thematic Routes

07 - 22 Apr 2018

Guided Tours

Several locations

Panoramic view of Praça do Município with carnations in the foreground

They Were There Too

13 - 21 Apr 2018

Theatre

Sala de Visionamento do Edifício da Rank Filmes/Cinema São Jorge

Short Stories Competition

06 - 13 Apr 2018

Workshop

Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade

Photograph of a political prisoner in black and white and the word "Democracy" next to it

Strange recent days of an unhappy time

19 Apr - 21 May 2017

Exhibition

Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar

Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm

Time After Time

19 - 25 Apr 2017

Exhibition

Galeria Municipal do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional

Tuesday to Friday, from 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday, from 2 pm to 6 pm

A Few Cuts: Censorship – film by Manuel Mozos

22 - 24 Apr 2017

Cinema

Cinema São Jorge

Photo and Video Gallery

Vitorino sang April in Flower

Photography. Artists on stage, facing the viewer. With his back to the observer, a man. Projected on stage the image of a tree, red.

Remembering Festas de Abril

Photography. Night. Arch of Rua Augusta with videomapping projection. It reads April 25th.

Remembering April in Lisbon

Photography. Newspaper front page with black and white image of two military men and a woman. At the top it reads April (in red letters) in Lisbon (in black letters). In front of the newspaper is a small book with a red and white cover.

Freedom passed through Campo Pequeno

Musical performance photography. Musicians on stage. There are also five screens on the stage. Each one has an image of the musician Sérgio Godinho.

Proibido Por Inconveniente – Censorship Materials in the EPHEMERA Archive

Photography. Facade of the Diário de Notícias building, on Avenida da Liberdade, with texts printed on the glass regarding the exhibition Proibido por Inconveniente

We will always have April in Lisbon

Photography. Red carnation resting on a table.

Nostalgia e Utopia with Manuel João Vieira

Musical performance photography. A man standing in the foreground and in the background another man also standing plays an instrument

April in Lisbon 2019

The history of the 25th April told on the façades of Praça do Comércio

A show to remember at Praça do Comércio

Photography. Musicians on stage, seated facing the viewer. Behind the musicians, a black and white image with soldiers and civilians.

Four days to think about Europe

Photography. Entrance to Cinema São Jorge with several people on the stairs and atrium.

A maestro is born

Photography. In the street, a person is standing holding a baton and laughing. It is observed by several people.

The story of April told on the façades of Praça do Comércio

Photography. Illuminated facade with projection of various colors

The Revolution Day at Museu do Aljube

Photography. Facade of the Aljube Museum with windows decorated with carnations

April in Lisbon 2018

Gaza Girls: Growing Up in the Gaza Strip

Street exposure photography. A large metallic cube placed on the sidewalk reads, on one side, April in Lisbon, and on the side facing the observer it reads Growing up in the Gaza Strip, at the top, and Girls Gaza, at the bottom. low. In the center is a text about the exhibition.

Liberty to play

Photography. Standing, facing the viewer, a man next to a piano in a square. It is observed by three men who are in front of a small lake.

Songs for Revolutions

choir and orchestra on stage, with a hand holding a red carnation

My Dear Friends – Letters from Augusto Boal

Photograph of an orange wall with text in gray and white that reads My Dear Friends Augusto Boal Letters from Exile