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.

agenda

6 May 2021 – 31 May 2021

Open Call — In Practice Summer School

Applications for In Practice Summer School, which takes place from 22 to 26 June at Centro Ciência Viva of Alviela, are open until 31 May. This edition proposes building a parliament of individual and/or collective questions which can address notions of body and politics, as well as their possible overlaps. We have invited the choreographer and researcher Volmir Cordeiro for this edition.