Our picks of events, camps, and places in Lisbon.
Festival
A small Ribatejo town that calls itself the capital of the horse turns its streets over to riders for ten days each autumn.
Workshop
Parent and child turn a branch into a forest guardian with a carved face, a Portuguese wool scarf and natural autumn colors, plus a first lesson with a knife.
Families of all generations play together at this board game weekend in Parque das Nações, with game publishers taking part.
Performance
Elsa, Anna, Olaf and Sven share the ice with acrobats, jugglers and aerial gymnasts, and the songs from both films are sung live in Portuguese.
Skaters, Viennese ballet dancers and Cuban and Mexican acrobats tell the Christmas Nutcracker story on ice. It is the show's first run in Portugal, with one night in Lisbon and one in Estoril.
Marionetas Rui Sousa turns Luis Sepúlveda's tale of a harbor cat who promises to raise a seagull chick into visual theater, with puppets built from reused materials.
A girl gets letters from Santa, then teams up with the elves to stop wicked goblins from grounding the sleigh, with a polar bear on her side.
Saint-Saëns' animals stomp, peck, roar and hop to the music, then the babies in the audience are invited into the game of sound, light and movement.
A one-hour Portuguese-language musical with songs, dance and humor, following Pocahontas and John Smith from North American forests across the Atlantic to a king's court.
Edi, 8, consumes and throws things away, until an unexpected invitation pulls him into a hidden world shaped by the climate crisis.
A life-size horse, a pumpkin coach and a Fairy Godmother who flies over the stage, in a weekend family show at Academia de Santo Amaro in Alcântara.
Four actors, puppets and original songs tell Saint-Exupéry's story of a pilot stranded in the desert and the small traveler from an asteroid he meets there.
A new puppet company takes over the museum's chapel most weekends until mid-December, from shadow puppets to a train full of Fernando Pessoa's characters.
Dorothy, the Scarecrow, a Tin Robot and the Lion head down the Yellow Brick Road in a colorful pop retelling, with the Wicked Witch of the West in their way.
Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf turned into a hands-on sound and movement show for babies, where each character gets its own rhythm to feel and follow.
A pirate play for kids at Teatro da Comuna, where a girl named Martina sets out to earn her place on a pirate ship's crew.
