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

11 August 2021 – 12 August 2021

João dos Santos Martins at Festival Farº

João dos Santos Martins presents Choreography at the Farº festival, in Nyon. The performance takes place on August 11 (9pm) and August 12 (7pm and 9pm), with a conversation after the second performance (10pm), a meeting between João dos Santos Martins and a member of the deaf community in French-speaking Switzerland. In French and sign language, with simultaneous interpretation.