MEO Stage and Sagres Stage will feature new artistic installations by Diogo Aguiar Studio and Leonor Violeta, curated by ETERNO and Underdogs
The "No Means No" initiative and Augmentative Communication are the sustainability highlights of the festival's fifth edition
The Repsol Guide Food Experience will debut as the festival's new food area, featuring gastronomic concepts by chefs Henrique Sá Pessoa, Marlene Vieira, and José and Cláudia Neves
On August 28, 29, and 30, MEO KALORAMA returns to Parque da Bela Vista in Lisbon to celebrate its 5th edition, featuring one of the most ambitious lineups in its history.
Headlined by Robbie Williams, Ms. Lauryn Hill, and Deftones, the festival lineup also brings artists such as Turnstile, Grace Jones, Yasiin Bey x Talib Kweli – Black Star, Clipse, Interpol, Ravyn Lenae, Freddie Gibbs + The Alchemist, as well as MARO, Criolo, Amaro and Dino, TRAVO, A Sul, among many others, to Lisbon.
With less than two months until doors open, MEO KALORAMA now unveils updates in the areas of Sustainability and Art, two core pillars of the festival’s identity, and introduces, for the first time, a gastronomic project that promises to transform the dining experience within the venue.
ART AT MEO KALORAMA
In 2026, the stages of MEO KALORAMA will once again be transformed into true works of art. In a partnership with Cultural Affairs, already consolidated over several editions, ETERNO and Underdogs — brands from the group founded by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils — will once again curate the artists responsible for the artistic interventions on the MEO Stage and the Sagres Stage.
By combining ETERNO’s research into the intersection between the physical and the digital with Underdogs’ experience in contemporary urban art, this collaboration strengthens the relationship between music, art, technology, and public space within the festival.
The MEO Stage will be designed by Diogo Aguiar Studio, an architecture practice whose work focuses on the exploration of material and sensory architectural or artistic spaces through geometric, abstract, and elemental compositions. These are formal systems conscious of the simultaneous experience of spatial emptiness, seeking to restore the relevance of spatial configuration in architecture.
Their proposal conceives the festival’s main stage as a dynamic architectural landscape, defined by layers, transparency, and constant variations of light. Through the arrangement of a series of suspended silver mesh surfaces, positioned at different depths and heights, the structure goes beyond its utilitarian function to become an active element of the festival experience.
The Sagres Stage will be curated by Leonor Violeta. A photography student at the Escola Artística Soares dos Reis and a graduate in Communication Design from ESAD Matosinhos, her work is marked by synthesized and colorful graphic compositions, allowing her to adapt to a wide variety of contexts and formats.
Her visual proposal for this stage starts from the deconstruction of the shield, the core symbol of the Sagres brand, reinterpreting it as a dynamic and contemporary structure. From this deconstruction emerges a graphic language capable of building a bridge between the brand’s heritage and the energy of the festival. The composition develops through modular repetitions inspired by the graphic logic of Portuguese azulejo tiles, evoking the visual and cultural tradition associated with the Portuguese spirit—here translated with rhythm, movement, and spontaneity: characteristics of a festival atmosphere and collective celebration.
SUSTAINABILITY: “NÃO É NÃO” INITIATIVE AND AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION
This year, MEO KALORAMA significantly strengthens its commitment to its social pillar, placing inclusion, accessibility, and safety at the core of the audience experience.
Among the main new features is the implementation of an Augmentative Communication model throughout the venue, in partnership with Adapt 4 You, designed to ensure the autonomous participation of people with complex communication needs. Through pictograms, inclusive signage, adapted content on screens, and communication boards distributed across different areas of the festival—including information points, first aid stations, and restrooms—the festival becomes more accessible and intuitive for everyone.
In parallel, the festival publicly adopts the “NÃO É NÃO” (“NO MEANS NO”) campaign as a clear zero-tolerance commitment to harassment and violence. Developed in collaboration with the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality, this policy will be continuously and visibly communicated throughout the venue via screens and posters in restroom facilities and main circulation areas. QR codes will also be available, providing immediate access to the response protocol, useful contacts, and reporting mechanisms.
To ensure an effective response, 100% of teams — including staff, security, and bar and stand operators — will receive specific training in active listening, empathetic support, and intervention in situations of harassment. The festival will also activate multiple reporting channels, both in-person and anonymous, ensuring that any situation can be reported safely and accessibly. When necessary, incidents will be immediately directed to dedicated spaces, guaranteeing privacy and consent, and coordinated with specialized support services and relevant authorities.
With these new measures, MEO KALORAMA reinforces its commitment to creating a space where everyone feels represented, respected, and safe, raising the standard of inclusion in the festival sector.
MEO FOUNDATION
The MEO Foundation is a key entity in ensuring the implementation of Augmentative Communication throughout the venue, through the SENTIDO App, a pioneering solution in Portugal and Europe, launched in June 2026 and available free of charge to everyone.
The app brings together on each festival-goer’s smartphone tools that were previously limited to specific areas within cultural venues: real-time audio description and live Portuguese Sign Language streaming.
The presence of the MEO Foundation at the festival is, more than a technological partnership, a statement that the moments that bring us together as a community must be accessible to everyone.
As a result of this partnership with the Foundation, MEO KALORAMA positions itself as one of the first music festivals in Portugal to integrate this level of digital accessibility within the venue, raising the industry standard and reinforcing the idea that inclusion and the festival experience are inseparable concepts.
REPSOL – MULTI-ENERGY PARTNER
Repsol strengthens and expands its partnership with the MEO KALORAMA festival, consolidating its role as Multi-Energy Partner in 2026 and deepening its presence in the areas of mobility, accessibility, and sustainability.
In the 2026 edition, the partnership gains a clear boost in the festival’s mobility operations, through the use of renewable fuels produced from waste in the festival’s official shuttles. These shuttles will be made available free of charge to MEO KALORAMA attendees, facilitating transport to and from the venue, with stops at key locations across Lisbon. This development contributes to a more efficient logistical operation, offering a higher-quality experience for the public and a lower environmental impact, reflecting the shared commitment to adopting more environmentally friendly energy solutions applied to large-scale cultural events. Repsol’s renewable fuels will also be used in the artist and production fleet, in food service areas, and in the festival’s stage generators, further reinforcing both Repsol’s and MEO KALORAMA’s commitment to energy solutions capable of reducing emissions.
In parallel, the partnership reaches a new dimension, aligned with the festival’s ambition to deliver a more elevated gastronomic experience to all attendees. A new food area will therefore be created — the Guia Repsol Food Experience — strengthening the connection between energy, culture, and high-quality experiences within the festival grounds. This new space expands the lifestyle component of MEO KALORAMA, integrating curated culinary offerings associated with the festival’s universe, featuring the participation of renowned chefs.
With this evolution, Repsol and MEO KALORAMA reinforce a partnership that goes beyond traditional sponsorship, positioning itself as an ongoing collaboration driven by the transformation of the festival experience through energy, mobility, and sustainability.
“This partnership reflects the way we want to be present in people’s lives: through innovative energy solutions, but also by creating meaningful and memorable experiences. MEO KALORAMA is a privileged stage to showcase our multi-energy strategy, combining mobility, gastronomy, and sustainability in a single space,” says Teresa Alvim, Head of Marketing at Repsol Portugal.
GUIA REPSOL FOOD EXPERIENCE
Gastronomy adds value to the territory, reflects its roots and culture, and reinforces the sense of belonging to the community.
The Guia Repsol Food Experience therefore aims to elevate the gastronomic experience throughout the three days of the festival, featuring proposals from chefs Henrique Sá Pessoa (2 Soles Guia Repsol), Marlene Vieira (2 Soles Guia Repsol), and the duo José and Cláudia Neves, responsible for the restaurant Ciclo (2 Soles Guia Repsol and Sustainable Sun 2026).
Henrique Sá Pessoa defines his cuisine as a refined style based on excellent products, refined flavours, and impeccable technique, with influences from traditional Portuguese gastronomy and his travels around the world. A regular figure on television, the chef opened a restaurant under his own name at the beginning of the year at Páteo Bagatela in Lisbon, awarded 2 Soles Guia Repsol.
At MEO KALORAMA, Henrique Sá Pessoa states that “it is a privilege to bring my cuisine together with Repsol’s energy at MEO Kalorama. When brands come together to create experiences that celebrate flavour, culture, and people, the result can only be special.”
Marlene Vieira is a chef with a northern soul, dedicated for years to creatively reinventing and elevating traditional Portuguese cuisine.
She currently runs three restaurants with different concepts, but all united by the desire to make Portuguese flavours—with influences from global techniques—the common thread: Marlene Vieira (Time Out Market) – traditional cuisine, Zunzum Gastrobar (Recommended by Guia Repsol), and Marlene, a fine-dining restaurant awarded 2 Soles Guia Repsol.
In the chef’s words, “the opportunity to cook for so many people in an environment full of energy and culture is without a doubt a great challenge! I like being connected to people, I enjoy challenges, and I hope to live up to expectations.”
At Ciclo, the restaurant by chefs José and Cláudia Neves, the cuisine is connected to the land, the seasons, and the people, focusing on high-quality, local, and seasonal products from small producers who practice regenerative agriculture — a way of farming that respects and restores the soil — which is why they received the Sustainable Sun in the 2026 edition of Guia Repsol.
For José and Cláudia Neves, “we were very happy to be invited for this challenge. We are sure we will have a lot of fun, and the fact that we are among colleagues makes everything even more positive. We accepted because we enjoy a good challenge and want to introduce our cuisine to more people.”
SAGRES X CHELAS É O SÍTIO
The Artistic Residency by Chelas É O Sítio is a project of creation, collaboration, and cultural affirmation that emerges from the creative energy of artists based in the parish.
Lasting three months, this project begins at the end of April and proposes a space for encounters between artists, DJs, and producers, fostering musical experimentation, the sharing of languages, and the construction of new artistic narratives. As a way of providing opportunities to other neighbourhoods of Lisbon, this residency includes artists from across the city, creating a more inclusive curatorial approach.
At the end of the residency, the work developed will be ready to be presented live on the Sagres Stage at MEO KALORAMA, bringing to life on stage the songs created throughout the process. This opportunity will be essential to elevate and give visibility to the trajectory of the artists involved, while also strengthening the close collaboration between the festival and the parish that hosts it.
Now, Sagres goes further and establishes itself as a cultural partner of the Artistic Residency of the Chelas É O Sítio association, with the aim of contributing to the support, empowerment, and recognition of emerging musical talent originating from the social housing neighbourhoods of the Marvila parish.
This partnership is a natural extension of Sagres’ positioning as a brand closely connected to Portuguese music culture and to the creation of moments of sharing, social connection, and celebration. Aligned with values of unity and inclusion, this initiative reinforces Sagres’ positioning as an inclusive beer brand and strengthens its commitment to valuing different cultural expressions and creating opportunities for new national talent, promoting a positive social impact in local communities.
In this way, the partnership with the Artistic Residency of Chelas É O Sítio is part of the social pillar of the sustainability programme ‘Brew a Better World’ – “Brewing a Better World.” This programme defines the global sustainability and corporate responsibility strategy of the HEINEKEN group, based on the belief that it is through unity and collective action that we inspire and build a better world.
The objectives of the Social Pillar aim to create shared value between communities and the business, contributing to improving economic opportunities, resilience, and social cohesion.
TICKETS
Tickets for MEO KALORAMA are still available at meokalorama.pt/tickets, feverup.com, MEO Stores, and all usual outlets.
Daily tickets are on sale for €65 + fees, while the General Pass remains available for €160 + fees.
The Friends Pack is also available, offering 6 general passes for the price of 5, as well as the FNAC Pack, which includes various offers, on sale at FNAC stores across the country and at fnac.pt.
Special conditions also remain available for holders of the navegante card and the Youth Card.
The MEO KALORAMA organisation thanks the institutional support of Lisbon City Council, Turismo de Portugal, and Turismo de Lisboa, as well as naming sponsor MEO, multi-energy partner Repsol, and strategic partner Sagres, who, together with the remaining sponsors Lipton, Toyota, and Delta, contribute to the development of this project.
MEO KALORAMA
August 28, 29 & 30
Parque da Bela Vista, Lisbon
More information at www.meokalorama.pt.
MEO KALORAMA 2026 LINEUP:
August 28
ROBBIE WILLIAMS
GRACE JONES · INTERPOL
JUDELINE · MARO
ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF · MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER
ANGINE DE POITRINE
A SUL · FOLK BITCH TRIO
PANORAMA LISBOA: BUDINO · HUNEE · LOLA HARO B2B ROMAN FLUGEL
NATHAN FAKE (LIVE) · VIEGAS
August 29
Ms. LAURYN HILL
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS WYCLEF JEAN, YG MARLEY and ZION
YASIIN BEY & TALIB KWELI ARE BLACK STAR · RAVYN LENAE
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA · VINCE STAPLES
CRIOLO, AMARO & DINO · BRUNO PERNADAS
MIND ENTERPRISES · FEMME FALAFEL · JOSHUA IDEHEN
RAQUEL MARTINS · TYLER BALLGAME
PANORAMA LISBOA: MIND ENTERPRISES · HIROKO YAMAMURA
HORSE MEAT DISCO · MÁRIO VALENTE · SUCHI
August 30
DEFTONES · TURNSTILE
CLIPSE · FREDDIE GIBBS + THE ALCHEMIST
HIGH VIS · PEACHES · WEDNESDAY
PANIC SHACK · PELADOS · TRAVO
RESIDÊNCIA ARTÍSTICA BY CHELAS É O SÍTIO
PANORAMA LISBOA: DJ LYCOX · DJ MARFOX · HELVIOFOX B2B DIIONYG
NÍDIA · O GHETTÃO · SOUNDPRETA
