On 8-11 September the city of Lisbon holds the 8th edition of the Festival TODOS (Everyone). Taking place at Colina de Santana and Campo dos Mártires da Pátria neighbourhoods, the Festival promotes the encounter of cultures and intercultural dialogue through contemporary arts. This year, the organisers focus on ways To Surprise the Everyday Life.

Performances are offered to the citizens for free and range from music and theatre to circus, dance, photo exhibitions, street food and urban art. Artists from several countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bangladesh, France, Angola, Italy, Morocco, Bulgaria, Mongolia, etc ...) will surprise the inhabitants in their daily activities by intervening in public squares, gardens, churches, hospitals, palaces, galleries, gyms and warehouses located in the 2 selected areas. 

With these 'surprise activities', organisers want citizens to reflect on neighbours origins and the value of interculturalism in everyday life. The idea is to stimulate curiosity about the neighbourhood’s past and create expectations for a future based on knowledge and mutual understanding.

Set up in 2009, the Festival has contributed to the elimination of territorial ghettos associated with immigration, opening the entire city to all people who are interested to live and work there. It is an initiative of the Lisbon City Council which is organised in partnership with the Academy of Cultural Producers (Academia de Produtores Culturais), with the support of Arroios and Santo António civil parish councils.