The Materiais Diversos Festival promotes the meeting of different audiences and imaginaries around the arts (dance, theatre, music and performance) with thought, questioning actuality and fostering cultural participation as a condition for citizenship. Born in Minde, in 2009, it spread to Alcanena and Cartaxo (in 2013) and became one of the most representative projects for programming outside the large centres in Portugal, attempting to think and act from the places it originates. It had been occurring annually until 2017 and became a biannual event starting with its 10th edition in 2019.

From the 3rd to the 12th of October 2025, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations.

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agenda

12 July 2019 – 20 August 2019

Call for Applications Summer School NA PRÁTICA

From 12 of June until 20 of August we are opening our applications for the next edition of our Summer School Na Prática. During the 10thedition of the Festival Materiais Diversos, Na Prática proposes forming a temporary community around the shared experience of being a spectator, and the work of Alessandro Sciarroni, the Italian creator, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale this year for his innovative choreographic work, and who will perform one of his most recent creations at the Festival Materiais Diversos.