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.
Studied Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon. Since 1999, she promotes philosophy ateliers with children, advises teachers´ qualifications and lectures at seminars, namely at the Escola Superior de Educação Maria Ulrich. For 5 years, she was the adviser on several projects in the same area, geared towards children and young people between the ages of 4 and 18 years, emigrants and children of emigrants from Cape Verde, in the Cova da Moura neighbourhood. She was a grant recipient from Inovart in Cape Verde, where she worked with children from rural and fishing communities also in FCC. She is currently working on her Doctorate, under the advisory of the philosopher José Gil, at the Nova University of Lisbon and the UERJ in Rio de Janeiro.
She has been regularly invited by various programmers to develop activities for institutions and cultural events, including a mini-conference on racism, for children.
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