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.
D.i.Y – Laboratório Experimental is a space dedicated to experimenting with thematic intersections related to art, the social sciences and technology, conceived especially for the Alcanena Secondary School. Its aim is, firstly, to stimulate the creative sensibility of the young participants, and proposes critical and creative activities which can exist as a fusion, meeting and encounter of both differences and equalities.
The laboratory does not follow the aesthetic or historical context of any particular movement, but its main references are contexts and currents in which different self-taught generations opposed themselves to cultural homogenization and creatively reclaimed other possibilities of existence, namely favouring values such as independence, self-sustainability and anti-consumerism.
Target Audience: Alcanena Secondary School Students
From October to June, during the school year.
Wednesdays, from 14h30 to 16h30.
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