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.

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2021
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agenda

7 September 2020 – 13 September 2020

Centro Ciência Viva do Alviela

Subterrâneo by Bruno Caracol at Centro Ciência Viva do Alviela

espólio de Ernest Fleury do Acervo dos Museus de Geociências do Instituto Superior Técnico

From the 7th to the 13th of September, Bruno Caracol develops the Subterrâneo project at the Centro Ciência Viva do Alviela and in Serra d’Aire e Candeeiros, a critical reading of Gabriel Tarde’s tale Fragment d’histoire future crossed with the history of Portuguese speleology and biospeleology as a pretext to reflect on utopias of social organization and architecture.