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.
Since 2018, in partnership with five festivals and six associated partners, as well as with several artists scattered across Europe and beyond, Materiais Diversos has participated in the international cooperation project More Than This , with a focus on contemporary performing arts and the Mediterranean space. More Than This proposes to rethink the value of complexity, challenging the crystallization of unique narratives and fixed identities and deepening the notions of displacement and hospitality.
In 2020, the Short Theater and the Festival Materiais Diversos materialize one of the most innovative dimensions of the project – the “displacement of festivals”, which questions not only the mobility of artists, but of the cultural organizations themselves. Working in pairs, each festival involved in the project received or was hosted by one of its partners.
In its 15th edition, the Short Theater hosts the Portuguese festival Materiais Diversos which – with all the variables resulting from the pandemic – programmes four artists: Tiago Cadete, Volmir Cordeiro, David Marques and Catarina Miranda.
FIUME
by Tiago Cadete
9 of September, 16h30 e 19h30
La Pelanda – Altri spazi
Itinerant Performance
Rua
by Volmir Cordeiro
10 of September, 19h
La Pelanda – Galleria
Dança sem vergonha
by David Marques
10 of September, 22h15
La Pelanda – Studio 2
Dream is the Dreamer
by Catarina Miranda
11 of September, 21h
La Pelanda – Teatro 2
*Dream is the Dreamer is an associated project of Materiais Diversos
Diversos