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.
This workshop is a complement to the cycle of theatre and philosophy workshops for children, on the very important object for children within the context of the classroom, the TABLE (MESA). The topic was inspired by the book “Uma mesa é uma mesa. Será?” (A Table is a Table, or is it?), published by Planeta Tangerina, and by the research that done for the performance MESA by Catarina Requeijo.
We need to build new brains; new metaphysical brains, in order to know how to listen to children today. From why to why, and through their day to day events, they draw lines with their thinking, arriving at the most fundamental concepts and questionings of the human being! One question leads to another…we will use their philosophical questioning as a point of departure, to be surprised, and to exercise our minds.
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