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.
Through a process of listening to the inhabitants of Cartaxo and people who frequent the Central Park, Teatro do Frio develops the project Tocar o Paraíso with which it intends to contribute to the regeneration of the garden as a common and mobilizing interest to action and enjoyment, promoting a performative platform and contact between human beings and plant beings.
During the residency, Teatro do Frio develops a set of collaborative actions for the occupation of public space, walks through the garden and “more” performative actions, including projection of films that develop and deepen) gestures and/or themes of action.
Tocar o Paraíso has its premiere scheduled for the Festival Materiais Diversos 2021
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