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.
Corpo Comum is a space for approaching artistic practices, which brings together various audience mediation activities that we have been developing since 2018. It symbolically designates the constitution of a “common body” of knowledge, shared between artists, children, young people, teachers and, occasionally, other specific audiences. It aims to promote artistic literacy and highlight the links between artistic practices and other forms of knowledge production, with a focus on contemporary issues. It is also a space that favors experimentation in the field of artistic pedagogy and the artistic training of educators.
In this context, we carry out four types of activity:
— Continuity workshops in the 2nd cycle, at Agrupamento de Escolas de Alcanena (AEA);
— 1st cycle research workshops (AEA), as part of the annual dance co-production for young audiences that Materiais Diversos supports;
— Artistic workshops for teachers and educators;
— A plan of workshops and other short-term actions, designed annually in accordance with the Fio Condutor program for different audiences.
Previous workshops:
Diversos