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.
Burning Eclipse, by Catarina Miranda, was selected to be supported by the Rede Cultural 5Sentidos, within the scope of the Invitation to Artistic Creation program, in the dance area, during the 2020/2021 biennium. In a strategy to reinforce support for the emerging national creation in the field of performing arts, the support of Rede Cultural 5Sentidos uses a period of two years, including one year for the creation process and one year for the initiation and circulation, for the residences, monitoring and circulation through the 9 cultural structures of the network.
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