Mensagem de Lisboa is a local and digital newspaper made for and in partnership with communities from greater Lisbon. It focusses on communities because that is its main purpose: to have a diverse and inclusive city. Mensagem has been informing, inspiring and empowering Lisbon residents for the past three years with its multimedia stories. Now, it does the same live, in a monthly edition that combines art and journalism to tell stories of Lisbon, in partnership with EGEAC and Teatro São Luiz. There will be stories of the city about people we all know, and stories that go unnoticed to most Lisbon residents. There will be talks, narratives, poetry, music and live illustration.

Programme

1st March | 3rd session – Lisboa Invisível
Presentation
1st Story | The ‘semilisboetas’ of Seixal
2nd Story | Courenses in Alvalade
3rd Story | Laughing en portugais
4th Story | Gardens in unusual places
5th Story | Intendente’s Christmas feijoada
6th Story | The legacy of Carlos Paredes
Closing and presentation of Zhou Yi’s drawing made live during the session.

Previous sessions

14th December | 1st session – Invisible Lisbon
Presentation
1st Story | Àpriori Theatre – Sung staging
2nd Story | Euprémio and Lisbon’s newest club
3rd Story | João the Sweeper
4th Story | Inês and João – João makes eyeglass frames from skateboards for Optocentro
5th Story | GDM, the Train Rapper
Closing and presentation of Nuno Saraiva’s drawing made live during the session.

25th January | 2nd session – Invisible Lisbon
Presentation
1st Story | From cacilheiro to fado
2nd Story | Lisboners also have an accent
3rd Story | A lazaretto, Porto Brandão, and a story of community
4th Story | Roger Kahan, a Lisbon story
5th Story | Impossible love… quite possible
6th Story | Dreams in the street
Closing and presentation of Nuno Saraiva’s drawing made live during the session.

Find out more at amensagem.pt.