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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2017

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Hotel Europa

Hotel Europa is a company founded and co-directed by André Amálio and Tereza Havlíčková, Portugal and the Czech Republic respectively, in the areas of theatre and dance. They explore disciplinary frontiers and favour collaborative processes, looking to autobiographical, mythological, traditional stories, family and national narratives as material, creating a complex web of references between popular culture and classical culture, and creating shows which allow the public to cross cultures, generations and genres and to build their own narratives and meanings.