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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agenda

29 October 2022, 21:30

José Tagarro Gallery

Arquivo Atlântico

We will premiere Arquivo Atlântico (Atlantic Archive), by Beatriz Cantinho and Túlio Rosa, a research project that ises three different formats – narrative-essay, letters and conversations – to propose thinking about the many ways in which the memory of the colonial process crosses and determines the present. The premiere is scheduled for 29 Oct. at 21h30 at José Tagarro Gallery, in Cartaxo. Until then, Beatriz Cantinho and Túlio Rosa are in artistic residency at this same place (17 – 29 Oct.)