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 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 It is a dance performance under development that questions the meaning of “house” and “home”, which no longer represents just an intimate place or shelter, but also a place of work, socialisation and study.
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