Open day to the Planet #6

03:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Cooking workshop
Pasta e Basta
with Giacomo Scalisi

An invitation to dive into a laboratory of fresh pasta-making, following Italian tradition. With Imperial machines, Giacomo Scalisi invites participants to make fresh pasta, which will later be enjoyed together with tomato sauce.

Capacity
15 people

Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896

03:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Nicolau's Games Room
with Nicolau Rosa Silva

New Bowing House has a new room: Nicolau's Games Room, a meeting point for thinking, having fun and being together.

Three collective games inaugurate this space: Dixit, a game of imagination and visual metaphors, where players try to guess which image matches a given clue; Carcassonne, a tile-laying game in which players collectively build a medieval landscape of cities, roads, fields and monasteries, competing and sharing territory through strategically placed followers; and Spyfall, a social deduction game in which everyone knows where they are – except the spy – and where the right questions can reveal who is pretending before time runs out.

Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896

03:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Jenga Room - Games for children
with Madalena Cunha

A carefully curated set of games designed for younger participants, combining classics such as 4 em Linha and Jogo da Memória with the invention of small stories using Story Dice.

Between strategy, memory, and imagination, this room invites children to play, create narratives, and spend the afternoon together in an atmosphere of sharing and discovery.

Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896

03:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Eyes in the Hands
with Alice Duarte

At the central table of the room, TWIN IT is played. The colourful, dynamic patterns on the game cards challenge participants to sharpen their eyesight and the speed of their hands. The cards multiply, and all players simultaneously try to find identical pairs. The game is played fast, to see faster and faster.

At a side table, the game's rhythm changes. Here, the challenge is to draw and colour two cards that are exactly the same, contributing to the creation of New Bowing Twin It!, a game of imagination, observation, and precision, created collectively. In this room, there are many ways of playing: fast and slow, with eyes, with hands, and with eyes in the hands; in colour and in black and white; alone and in groups.

Playing TWIN IT is learning not only to see faster, but also to look more closely.

Capacity
8/10 people

Age Rating
M/8+

Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896

03:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Sewing Room: Fabric games
with Rita Carrilho and Simi Kaur

An invitation to create a fabric version of Jogo do Galo, a traditional two-player strategy game played on a simple grid and based on observation, anticipation and patternmaking.

Conceived as a soft, portable object, the game can function both as a tablecloth and as a travelling game board for Jogo do Galo. Through hand sewing, machine-assisted stitching, and a fully machine-sewn version, each participant creates a personal game to take home, designed to be used in different places and seasons.

Sessions
03:00 pm · 03:45 pm · 04:30 pm · 05:15 pm

Capacity
5 people per session

Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896

04:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Planetary Tennis Table Tournament
with Rita Moreira

The First Great Planetary Tournament of New Bowing House invites people of all ages and backgrounds to play table tennis.

Born in England in the 14^th century as an alternative pastime to tennis, table tennis became extremely popular in Asia from the 1930s onwards. From the 1950s to the present day, Asian athletes have been the great stars of the sport.

A game of fast and precise movements becomes here a space for encounter, conviviality and healthy competition, where the diversity of participants is an essential part of the experience.

Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896

06:00 pm
Cooking
Developing a taste for italian pasta

Once prepared, the pasta is brought to the table. The "student cooks" from the workshop present the dishes they have made in a moment of sharing, to appreciate and savour fresh Italian pasta.

06:30 pm
Music
New Bowing Band at its best

The New Bowing Band, which has been exploring the new musicality that can emerge from the fusion of the cultures its musicians bring with them, presents an early evening concert, this time featuring a special guest: Marc Planells on zither.

Marc Planells was born in Barcelona in 1980. He is a composer, musician and multi-instrumentalist, with a career marked by research and dialogue between different musical traditions.

He trained at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. He undertook numerous study trips, particularly to the East, deepening his knowledge of world music. In India, he spent several years in intensive residencies under the guidance of Hindustani music masters, studying singing, sitar, and jaltarang. His path also includes periods of study in Egypt, Turkey, Morocco and Germany. He plays instruments such as the sitar, oud, lavta, Afghan rubab, saz, fretless guitar, jaltarang, and frame drums, and regularly collaborates with national and international projects, including Terrakota, Orquestra Todos, Selam, Anaidcram, Imidione, Yogi Estragong, Terraignota, Trobadors, and Músicos do Tejo.

05:00 pm – 07:30 pm
Mirabolante Bookshop

Mirabolante Bookshop accompanies the themes of New Bowing House on this day, with a selection of books on games, cooking, music and many other worlds.

An invitation to take books home and to nourish the mind and the muscles of imagination, because in 2026, buying books remains essential.

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