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.
The project Dentes de Leão officially launches at the Opening Forum, which takes place in Évora and Sardoal on the 22nd and 23rd for a first meeting between young people, artists, local agents and project partners. Soon after, artistic laboratories with Ragnhildur Stefánsdóttir, from the Academy of the Senses in Sardoal, take place between 24 and 28, and with the Teatro do Frio between January 31 and February 4 in Évora, geared towards the artists selected to participate in the project.
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