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.
Rodrigo Pereira has a Bachelor Degree in theatre from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon), did an exchange at RESAD (Madrid) and at the University of São Paulo.
He has collaborated with the Teatro de Narradores (São Paulo), Pedro Barreiro (Santarém) and João Leitão (Lisbon) in Multimedia and Audiovisuals. Created a Workshow on Self-knowledge, presented in São Paulo, and re-right vol.I (www.reright.xyz) presented at seven locations in Portugal.
Works with live-video and is a vj in several projects.
Was local producer of Golgota Picnic, by Rodrigo Garcia (MitSP), mediator and producer of the Materiais Diversos Festival, 2017. Is an organizer of Um Ao Molhe and co-founder of the project “ocupação”.
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