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 5th to the 15th of October 2023, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations. Slowing down and making people, places and processes visible are the mottos of the 12th edition of the festival.
The first residencies of the Vazias no Caldeirão project, selected within the scope of the production consultancy Novos Materiais in 2023, take place at Estúdios Victor Córdon, in Lisbon, between 10 and 14 and between 24 and 28 July. Beatriz Pereira and Carolina Sendim’s project focuses on a reflection and questioning about the feeling of emptiness from the intersection between dance and cooking, and it is for a children’s audience.
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