Filipe Pereira presents Arranjo Floral, a lecture-performance about an artist born in Fátima, set amid massive processions, floral arrangements, and religious souvenir shops. A journey that takes us through a biography spanning faith and atheism, virginity and sexual awakening, the art of flowers and the art of dance—and back again. Accompanied by flowers, choreography, and stories, Filipe leaves us pondering how much of our past is present in everything we do, how much of our destiny is predetermined, and how much lies in our own hands.

Freedom Arrangement

Easter Arrangement

Winter Arrangement

FALA Arrangement

This session concludes with a collective floral arrangement integrated into FALA — Alcanena Literary Festival.

Spring Arrangement

Espiga Arrangement

Talk with Cristina Planas Leitão and Edna Correia.

In the second half of 2026, the Audience Club returns in a new format, bringing together performances programmed by Cine-Teatro São Pedro and Materiais Diversos. After each performance, the Audience Club comes together for a moment of conversation, sharing and collective reflection around the experiences, questions and concerns raised by the works. This new format of the Audience Club will be moderated by Nuno Preto. Registrations open!

In the second half of 2026, the Audience Club returns in a new format, bringing together performances programmed by Cine-Teatro São Pedro and Materiais Diversos. After each performance, the Audience Club comes together for a moment of conversation, sharing and collective reflection around the experiences, questions and concerns raised by the works. This new format of the Audience Club will be moderated by Nuno Preto. Registrations open!

In the second half of 2026, the Audience Club returns in a new format, bringing together performances programmed by Cine-Teatro São Pedro and Materiais Diversos. After each performance, the Audience Club comes together for a moment of conversation, sharing and collective reflection around the experiences, questions and concerns raised by the works. This new format of the Audience Club will be moderated by Nuno Preto. Registrations open!

In the second half of 2026, the Audience Club returns in a new format, bringing together performances programmed by Cine-Teatro São Pedro and Materiais Diversos. After each performance, the Audience Club comes together for a moment of conversation, sharing and collective reflection around the experiences, questions and concerns raised by the works. This new format of the Audience Club will be moderated by Nuno Preto. Registrations open!

As part of a long-standing programming partnership, Materiais Diversos and BONS SONS have developed an ongoing collaboration that brings together music and the performing arts through a shared programme shaped by dialogue and exchange.

At the 2026 edition of the BONS SONS festival, taking place from 6 to 9 August, in Cem Soldos, Materiais Diversos will present Conto Preto by Nala Revlon and Fazer Ideia by João Grilo and Inês Campos.

As part of a long-standing programming partnership, Materiais Diversos and BONS SONS have developed an ongoing collaboration that brings together music and the performing arts through a shared programme shaped by dialogue and exchange.

At the 2026 edition of the BONS SONS festival, taking place from 6 to 9 August, in Cem Soldos, Materiais Diversos will present Conto Preto by Nala Revlon and Fazer Ideia by João Grilo and Inês Campos.

Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) for the hosting of artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with the conditions to research, create and develop their projects in Lisbon. Filipe Pereira was the artist invited by Materiais Diversos to lead Clube das Flores, which took place between February and June 2026 in Minde and Alcanena.

Full programme will be announced in September.

Artists in residency from 14 to 25 October 2026:
❦ Bibi Dória
❦ Connor Scott
❦ Grilo & Inês Campos
❦ Luísa Saraiva
❦ Marga Alfeirão
❦ Miguel Bonneville & Sofia Dinger
❦ Natacha Campos
❦ Pedro Barreiro
❦ Reina del Mar

FUTURΛ is an invitation to reinvent curatorial practices: a peer-to-peer space for imagining possible futures with courage, care, and an openness to what has yet to be named. A seminar for programmers, artists and cultural practitioners, FUTURΛ offers a space for listening, critical exchange and experimentation, responding to the urgent need to rethink curatorial practice today. From an intersectional feminist perspective, it brings together professionals from the performing arts in a gathering dedicated to curating as an artistic, political and social practice.

Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) for the hosting of artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with the conditions for research, creation and development of their projects in Lisbon. Luísa Saraiva is one of the artists taking part in materiais adversos weekend, which will take place in October 2026 in Minde and Alcanena.

November — Lisbon, with and during Alkantara Festival
The third gathering, taking place within the framework of Alkantara Festival, focuses on artistic circulation, exploring festivals as strategic infrastructures for visibility, value creation, a fairer distribution of resources, and sustainable international cooperation.

Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) for the hosting of artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with the conditions for research, creation and development of their projects in Lisbon. Natacha Campos is one of the artists taking part in materiais adversos weekend, which will take place in October 2026 in Minde and Alcanena.

The workshops for 5th grade students, Invisible Matter, are part of a programme designed by Rebecca Mateus and are based on the exploration of natural elements and processes that are often imperceptible in everyday life, approached through the body, movement and educational games.

The workshops for 5th grade students, Invisible Matter, are part of a programme designed by Rebecca Mateus and are based on the exploration of natural elements and processes that are often imperceptible in everyday life, approached through the body, movement and educational games.

The workshops for 5th grade students, Invisible Matter, are part of a programme designed by Rebecca Mateus and are based on the exploration of natural elements and processes that are often imperceptible in everyday life, approached through the body, movement and educational games.

The workshops for 5th grade students, Invisible Matter, are part of a programme designed by Rebecca Mateus and are based on the exploration of natural elements and processes that are often imperceptible in everyday life, approached through the body, movement and educational games.

The workshops for 5th grade students, Invisible Matter, are part of a programme designed by Rebecca Mateus and are based on the exploration of natural elements and processes that are often imperceptible in everyday life, approached through the body, movement and educational games.

The workshops for 5th grade students, Invisible Matter, are part of a programme designed by Rebecca Mateus and are based on the exploration of natural elements and processes that are often imperceptible in everyday life, approached through the body, movement and educational games.

The workshops for 5th grade students, Invisible Matter, are part of a programme designed by Rebecca Mateus and are based on the exploration of natural elements and processes that are often imperceptible in everyday life, approached through the body, movement and educational games.

Gaya de Medeiros and Piny pitch during the materiais adversos weekend.

In the autumn of 2026, three professional gatherings will take place as part of a cultural cooperation strategy between France, Spain and Portugal, co-curated by Materiais Diversos and the Institut français du Portugal.

Who Gets to Leave for Mars?
Mobility, Institutions and Cultural Futures

18 September 2026
10:00–18:00

Free admission, subject to venue capacity and registration via the link.

Conceived as a utopian conference, this inaugural gathering, co-organised with Culturgest, uses art as a critical catalyst to reflect on the present and the possible futures of European cultural institutions, fostering strategic imagination and long-term cooperation. Taking La Distance by Tiago Rodrigues as its point of departure, the event proposes a collective exercise in anticipation, imagining a world shaped by precarity, climate change and the prospect of exile to Mars, shifting institutional thinking away from short-term imperatives.

A film screening that kicked off the Clube das Flores, led by choreographer and floral designer Filipe Pereira, which runs from February through June 2026.

SONIC BODIES
with Ali Chahrour & Lynn Adib

Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with the Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) focused on hosting artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with conditions for research, creation, and the development of their projects in Lisbon.

In partnership with Grand Studio, we welcome artist Vilma Pitrinaite for a residency at Centro Ciência Viva do Alviela, Alcanena, from 18 to 26 July 2026.