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.
Writes for the stage and for paper, translates and teaches classes on dramaturgy for the Bachelor Degree in Theatre at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design. He has worked in theatre with Bruno Bravo, Jorge Silva Melo, Gonçalo Waddington, António Simão, Tiago Rodrigues, Gonçalo Amorim, Teresa Sobral, Raquel Castro, Pedro Gil, Lígia Soares, among others. Some of his texts are published in the collection Livrinhos de Teatro dos Artistas Unidos, by the publisher Ambar, at Douda Correria, at Mariposa Azual, at Culturgest, at Primeiros Sintomas, and in the magazines Artistas Unidos, Fatal and Blimunda. He translated Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Ali Smith, William Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Senel Paz, among others.
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