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.
Henrique Frazão is a Portuguese artist and climate activist.
The fear of amnesia led him, from an early age, to want to record and save much of what he saw, learnt, thought and felt. In this sense, photography has played an increasingly important role, being seen as a means of immortalising concepts.
Since 2017 he has been developing a time capsule in which he intends to exhaustively archive sequentially recorded images. The clash with climate science data in 2018 made him see this project as even more urgent. In recent years he has been preparing an ambitious project called Voyager Ø, which was launched at Burning Man 2023.
The world as we know it will disappear in a few decades.
Let some memory remain.
Diversos