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 5th to the 15th of October 2023, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations. Slowing down and making people, places and processes visible are the mottos of the 12th edition of the festival.
This is the last module of Open Field, a course meant for cultural agents with an interest in participatory arts that has been designed based on the ideas, worries and learning originating in the process of co-constructing the Dentes de Leão project, and that, in four meeting moments, seeks to yield an experience of continuity in dialogue with different stages of the project. “Is It mine? From Giving to Owning” is the subject of the fourth module taking place at Culturgest, in Lisbon, on November 26 and 27, with Filipa Oliveira and Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro.
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