Festival

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.

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2021
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2017

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Guarda Rios Collective

We are a research and creation collective based around riverside territories.
We propose a culture of water and an approach to rivers, through participatory artistic actions and processes of co-learning, conviviality and celebration.
Given the increasing desertification of the territory and the scarcity of water, it seems crucial to us to look at rivers and their ecosystems, as well as the ancestral cultures that depend on them.
Since 2019, we have been mapping issues related to water management or the human impact on river ecosystems and sharing them in events, exhibitions and activities with the public, covering geographies from the interior to the coast, from north to south, from rural areas to urban centres.

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