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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Mil e Uma Noites

The Mil e Uma Noites project, by Um Colectivo/Cátia Terrinca, is looking for voices and stories of women from the municipality of Alcanena or the surrounding region. The goal is to gather written or spoken literary heritage of women. Mil e Uma Noites is a long-term civic and artistic project that rescues the work of 20th-century Portuguese women from oblivion through radio drama. Apply here.