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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.
The Summer School IN PRACTICE, that takes place from the 5th to the 9th of July, in the Alviela Ciência Viva Centre, with María Jerez, in collaboration with Quim Pujol. This edition was designed from the imperative of an invented verb, “indíralo”, whose definition would be “not to do something individually”. Throughout the week, work is done on the choreography of a multiple and divergent brain that does not move in one direction, culminating in the Divergent Assembly, a session open to the public, which takes place on 9 July, between 3pm and 5.30pm.