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 3rd to the 12th of October 2025, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations.
Collective knitting session for everyone
with Vânia Rovisco
3pm-6pm
Free entry (subject to availability)
We’ve invited Vânia Rovisco to come and weave “A Roda” (The Wheel) – a giant version of the knitting mill or round knitting loom: an object often made by hand, with a wooden thread trolley and nails, for example, used to make tubular knitting cords.
We sit round like our grandmothers, great-grandmothers, great-great-grandmothers, great-great-great-grandmothers,
present in union for a textile action, in active meditation, hands in constant creation, shared stories, past traditions. In a collective action, we become a living organism, we weave the thread of life, the web of Arachne, we connect, we talk, we create.
Come and weave stories at MARG.
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