The Street Festivals, promoted by the city of Lisbon, lead to public spaces cinema and music sessions of various genres between September 4 and October 4, according to the program announced today.
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26/08/2026
by
Lusa
A opening of the Festivals in the Street takes place, as has been usual in the last editions, in the Valley of Silence, in the Olivais, with a weekend (04 and 05 September) marked by the diversity of artists and musical styles.
On Friday (day 04), the show Divas Pop, specially designed for Olivais Park, features songs reinterpreted by the Portuguese Pop Orchestra, directed by conductor Jan Wierzba.
On stage there will be Cuca Roseta, Iolanda, Mimicat and Susana Félix, on a “night to relive memories through successes, national and international,” says the information released by EGEAC, a municipal company responsible for cultural animation.
On Saturday (day 05), it is the turn of the Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra to go on stage, with about 150 musicians, directed by the master Alena Hron, who will play emblematic works of the classical repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, from operas by Bizet, Puccini and Verdi to compositions by George Gershwin and Florence Price.
In turn, the cinema will occupy the steps of the Brick Oven Market with a new edition of the Film Short Film Festival in the Extendal, on 12 and 13. This year the program is dedicated to the queer cinema and will be presented the short winners of the edition of the Queer Lisboa Festival 2025.
According to the note released, this year there is the return of music and dance to the Garden Keil do Amaral in Monsanto, with DJ Pantaleão (day 18) and DJ Jay Lion (day 19).
“ Two late afternoons rhythmed by electronic music and 'hits' of the 1980s to dance at sunset in a natural amphitheatre of the city ", reads in the note.
The garden of the Alfarrobeira Palace, in Benfica, will receive on the 26th the conductor and composer Rui Massena, who will present his latest album, “Parents’ House”, and remember a decade of career. You will have the company of “‘rapper’ and lyricist Carlão, special guest of this concert”.
The programme of the Street Festivals also includes the parade for peace and washing of Santo António, “cultural and interreligious event inspired by the traditional washing of the stairs of Senhor do Bonfim da Bahia, linking the Afro-Brazilian tradition to the local culture, on September 20”.
Already on the first weekend of October are scheduled two days of celebration of Portuguese-speaking music, in the gardens of the Museum of Lisbon – Palácio Pimenta, with Mundu Nôbu Experience (day 03) and Lisbon Mix – 30 years Sons of Lusophonia (day 04), featuring Mayra Andrade, Karetus, Vate, Lura, Ana Lua Caiano, Stereosaur, Guto Pires, Carlos Martins, Francisco Rebelo, Xtinto, among others.
After a 10-year interregnum, the Festa na Praça returns to Lisbon on 12 September, integrating crafts, gastronomy and music, with concerts by NAPA and the fadista Mariza, after a ‘DJ set’ of Kiko is Hot.
Inserted in the same event, but on September 26, there will be Cinema in the Square, to see or review the film “The Devil Dresses Prada 2”, this time at an outdoor night session in Alameda D. Afonso Henriques.