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.
Joana Rita Sousa studied Philosophy at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), in Lisbon. She has a project, filocriatiVIDAde, since 2008, through which she provides philosophy workshops for children, young people and families. She travels around Portugal to promote workshops for the youngest and also to provide training to parents, educators, teachers and educational agents. In 2011 she was at the Portuguese School of Mozambique, in Maputo, to work with the school community, within the scope of philosophy for children.
She holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy for Children, from the University of the Azores and she is a professor in the Post-Graduate Program in Philosophy for Children and Youth at UCP. Since 2011, has been co-organizing the Sentir Pensamentos | Pensar Sentidos meetings.
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