It’s venture in the open spaces of the building, benefiting of the magnificent square of the museum and the gorgeous gardens and esplanades facing the river. It is also a chance to enjoy a parade of some of the most remote artistic expressions, which places us in our dimension of great cosmopolitan city, open to all the peoples and cultures of the world. In 2010, the festival CCB Inside Out opens once more with the Lisbon Jazz Summer School, inaugurated in 2008 with an enormous success. The third edition of the Lisbon Jazz Summer School is inaugurated with Danilo Perez’s – the pianist - quintet, whose elements will be the instructors in the jazz school, functioning during one week in various spaces of the CCB. Then, the festival widens to the artistic expressions of Latin America, with concerts by Concha Buika, Sierra Maestra, Juana Molina and Jacques Morelenbaum’s trio with Daniel Jobim.

The festival will dedicate once more a section to Portuguese creators, invited to submit projects in the realm of the programme Belém Urbana (Urban Belém). The programme, which will liven up the summer week-ends of the Centro Cultural de Belém includes world music, dance, theatre, cinema, performances and installations.

The festival CCB Inside Out is the bridge binding the season of 2009-2010, which is about to finish, to the season of 2011. In the final countdown of the present season, exactly before the sounds of the jazz school flood the building, the Centro Cultural de Belém proposes a handful of exceptional shows, a way of celebrating the end of an intense and successful season. Here are three suggestions: on the 2nd of July, Cristina Branco and Carlos Barreto’s trio go upstage in the Small Auditorium for a homage/recreation of the work of the German composer Robert Schumann, whose centenary is celebrated this year; on the 3rd and 4th of July, the Main Auditorium welcomes the Teatro Praga company, which finishes its residence in the Centro Cultural de Belém with a staging of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, accompanied by the group Os Músicos do Tejo, which will play Henry Purcell’s music, composed for Shakespeare’s play; and on the 9th of July we present for the first time in Europe the Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil da Bahia, directed by the piano player and conductor Ricardo Castro, who proposes a festive program of American composers, from Ginastera to Gershwin, which announces the sounds arriving a few days later with festival CCB Inside Out.

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