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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22 February 2021 – 26 February 2021

Catarina Miranda in residence with PORO- MECHANICS

Catarina Miranda is in creative process, and will be in residency at the Teatro Nacional São João between 22 and 26 February, to develop the installation POROMECHANICS, a series of video-portraits of artists, who have undergone states of immersion that creates a counterpoint with the dance piece CABRAQIMERA, which the artist has been developing simultaneously.