Currently, since 2015, she is the the Artistic Director of Materiais Diversos. Her path began in 1999, in the field of production, and took a turn during her collaboration with CENTA – Centro de Estudos de Novas Tendências Artísticas (Centre for Studies of New Artistic Tendencies), between 2003 and 2005, the moment when she first approached the area of artistic education. She was responsible for the Serviço Educativo (Educational Services) d’A Oficina (2006 – 2014), namely for the Vila Flor Cultural Centre and the International Arts Centre José de Guimarães. Within this context, she developed projects in the municipality of Guimarães, edited the arts and educational journal LURA and conceptualized Mais Dois – Programa de Aprendizagem em Artes Performativas (Program for Learning in the Performative Arts), aimed at the primary school level. She created and programmed the Guimarães Educational Services for the 2012 European Capital of Culture.
She has a Master Degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Porto, and a Bachelor Degree in Theatre / Production, from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC), where she lectures on Programação Cultural — Cidade e Território e Público das Artes (Cultural Programming — City and Territory and The Arts Audience), and on Estratégias de Programação (Programming Strategies), and also for the course Gestão e Produção nas Artes Performativas (Management and Production in the Performative Arts) at Forum Dança. She was also responsible for the Cultural Programming module of the Post-graduate course in Gestão e Comunicação Cultural (Cultural Management and Communication) at the Lusófona University of Porto.
She is regularly invited to conferences on programming cultural and the development of audiences.

Collaborates with the Materiais Diversos Cultural Association since 2017.
She has developed her professional activity on the fields of arts production and programming, through her work with national and international structures such as the Institut Français (2012—2017), as programmer for the Festa do Cinema Francês, and producer and distributor for Midas Films, while also responsible for the department of Home Video (2014—2017).

She has a Bachelor Degree in Artistic Studies, a variant on performance arts, from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon), and a post-graduate degree in Museology from the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences) of the Nova University of Lisbon, and also attended the course Cinéma et Audiovisuel at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University — Paris 3.

Has been a part of the Materiais Diversos Cultural Association team since 2015.
Her professional path began while she was a producer and doing PR for the Galeria Zé dos Bois (ZDB) Cultural Association (2002—2005), and continued while manager and executive producer at Bomba Suicida — Association for Cultural Promotion, where she developed work with the choreographers Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Tânia Carvalho and Luís Guerra (2005 — 2014). She is the co-founder of SUMO — Association for cultural dissemination, with Ana Rita Osório and Andrea Sozzi.

She has a Bacheor Degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (1992—1997) and completed the Curso de Gestão — Produção das Artes do Espectáculo (Management Course — Production of Performance Arts) of Forum Dança (2002). She has a post-graduate degree in Comissariado em Arte e Novas Tecnologias (Commissioner in Art and New Technologies) from MECAD — Media Centre d’Art i Desseny, Barcelona (2003) and in Cultura Contemporânea e Novas Tecnologias (Contemporary Culture and New Technologies), from the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences) of the Nova University of Lisbon (2006—2007).

She was born in Porto in 1984. In 2017 she completed the Performing Arts Management and Production course at Forum Dança. She has produced projects by artists such as Rui Neto, Lígia Soares, Sara Duarte, Anabela Almeida, Keli Freitas, Katrin Kaasa and Rita Brütt. She has collaborated regularly with Má-Criação and Teatro do Silêncio. She was production assistant on A Vida Vai Engolir-vos, by Tónan Quito, and Palhaço Rico Fode Palhaço Pobre, by João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira (BOCA). She collaborated with Materiais Diversos on the production of Marinho by Margarida Mestre, A Menor Língua do Mundo by Alex Cassal and Paula Diogo and Burning Eclipse and Dream is the Dreamer by Catarina Miranda.

Inês is the Director of Communications at Materiais Diversos since March, 2019. She has a Master Degree in Comunicação, Cultura e Tecnologias da Informação (Communication, Culture and Information Technologies) from ISCTE, directed communications for Alkantara (2016-2019) and for the program Hospitalidade (Hospitality) (2018), and collaborates with the Centro Cultural de Cascais / Fundação D. Luís I (Cascais Cultural Centre) / D. Luís I Foundation) and with the exhibition producers Terra Esplêndida, since 2015. In journalism, she was the editor of the magazine VEGA (2004-2008) and collaborated with National Geographic, Diário de Notícias and Fotomagazine.

As a writer, she was awarded by Casa do Alentejo in the story category in 2012, and is published by Edições Pasárgada. Along with fiction, she also develops experimental writing projects.
She conceptualizes and develops informal pedagogic methodologies in the areas of creative writing, visual poetry, language codes and education for media. She develops and is a part of the project Young Writers Lab – An International Collaborative Laboratory for Writers & Students, since 2016 (Sweden).
In the cultural production field, she was Executive Director of MONSTRA – Festival de Animação de Lisboa (Lisbon Animation Film Festival) (2009-2011), Executive Coordinator at APORDOC – Associação para o Documentário (Association for the Documentary) (2013), Producer on the Alkantara Festival (2012-2016) and at CITEN – Centro de Imagem e Técnicas Narrativas (Centre for the Image and Narrative Techniques), and at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Sha also programmed and produced the cinema cycle Rotas & Rituais (Routes & Rituals), EGEAC (2012-2013).

She graduated in Cinema from the University of Beira Interior in 2022. Directed the film Mesa Posta (2022), which was selected and awarded both in Portugal and abroad. Produced and communicated the A Good Pair of Ovaries (2022) project, a multidisciplinary installation exhibited in Covilhã and Caldas da Rainha. She has collaborated as a volunteer with the production team of various film, culture and art festivals, such as WOOL – Urban Art Festival (2021), MDOC – Melgaço International Film Festival (2021), UBICinema – Film Festival (2022) and Waking Life (2023). She has edited several audiovisual essays that circulate publicly, such as The Mirror vs. Persona (2019). She writes informally about women’s issues.

He graduated in Theatre from the School of Arts and Design in Caldas da Rainha, at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. Since 2012 he has collaborated with the Materiais Diversos festival as head of box office, distribution, executive production and accessibility coordination. In 2015 he joined the team behind the show “E morreram felizes para sempre”, in Lisbon, as stage manager, front-of-house manager and box office manager. In 2016 he completed his internship at Plataforma 285 and began working in the production department at Vo’Arte. In 2019 he collaborates with some creators on a freelance basis and takes on the role of project manager at the Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa. In 2022 he starts working with Jonas&Lander as administrative and financial manager. In 2023 he collaborated with the team behind the show “A Morte do Corvo” as stage director. In 2024 he joined the team at Materiais Diversos as a financial and administrative assistant.

She joined Materiais Diversos in 2022 as Executive Producer of the Regular Programme.

She graduated in Artistic Studies – Performing Arts in 2019, and entered the Master’s programme in Cultural Studies and Management in the same year. She is currently finishing her dissertation on the Lack of Professional Opportunities for Cultural Students in Higher Education.

In 2019 she worked as a production and communication assistant at the cultural co-operative Largo Residências. Between 2019 and 2021 she collaborated with Largo Residências on the Bairro em Festa Festival, as a volunteer coordinator, responsible for sales and merchandising inventory.

Graduated in Arts and Humanities with a major in Communication and Culture and a minor in Heritage Sciences from FLUL in 2018. Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship and Cultural Studies, in Cultural Management, in 2020. Interned at the DGPC – Museums department, in 2019. She wrote her dissertation: The private sector in the Portuguese Museum Network. She volunteered at the 1st edition of the MIL festival in 2017 and at the FMD in 2019.

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