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.

2023
2021
2019
2017

agenda

3 April 2023 – 30 April 2023

Fios do Meio

The creation support programme Fios do Meio, a regional support that raises awareness of the artistic work of people living, working or born in the district of Santarém, selected the project Didascálias – Ou como se constrói uma casa, by Leonor Mendes. It is a dance performance under development that questions the meaning of “house” and “home”, which no longer represents just an intimate place or shelter, but also a place of work, socialisation and study.