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.
Illustrator, comic book author, animated film director and artist-teacher. She has been connected to the theatre for more than twenty years, and has collaborated in props, costumes, graphic design, and also in creating fine arts environments. She has written and illustrated children´s books, and received the Illustration Award from the Amadora BD Festival – Melhor Ilustração Infantil (Best Children´s Illustration) 2003, for her illustrations for the book O Circo da Lua. She has created and moderated Reding a Creativity Workshops, bringing awareness to the different forms of reading of books and the world throughthe creation of fine arts laboratories, illustration, nature and science, enabling aesthetic, poetic, sensorial and imaginative experiences. She created the project Massa Folhada, a collection of limited edition art books that is now up to three in number. She drew live with the Gulbenkian Orchestra at the narrated concert Peter and the Wolf, by Prokofiev and Baba-Yaga, Kikimora, The Enchanted Lake, by Liadov integrated into the program Descobrir a Música at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
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