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

20 July 2020 – 24 July 2020

Centro Cultural do Cartaxo

Joana Pupo in residency at Cartaxo

Joana Pupo will be in Cartaxo for a week to develop the Radical Theater and Dance Techniques Workshops for young people, at the Municipal Library Marcelino Mesquita, and in residence with the project Uma Peça Feliz Direta sobre a Tristeza, at the Centro Cultural do Cartaxo, where will return in November for the premiere of the show.