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.
Between March and June, Materiais Diversos visits the Aguarela Roque Gameiro Museum for some small family gatherings. Encontros que contam (Encounters that count), for children and grandchildren, and parents and grandparents. Once a month, inspired by the MARG collection, in its garden or in sections of its minderico heritage, we invite one artist to listen to and to recount, observe and explore, that which is nearby, yet sometimes hidden, and which matters to us.
2020
Encontros que Contam return to Minde in June and July in a conversation format between children and seniors, grandchildren and grandparents, but not each other, grandchildren and grandparents from the same community, temporarily separated friends who will meet again by a thread of conversation . Ana Sofia Paiva and António Fontinha, accountants already known in the Minde community, are back, but this year with a new challenge. This edition of Encontros que Contam will take place at the Centro de Bem-Estar Social de Minde and proposes that children observe small things, pets, pebbles, eggs, nests and holes, and try to find out from their older friends what stories, riddles or spears of popular culture are still fresh in his memory. This new edition of Encontros que Contam is not public, it takes place in the context of the regular activity of the Social Welfare Center of Minde. Until the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the children of the kindergarten visited a group of seniors from CBESM weekly. In the impossibility of this meeting being in person, Materiais Especiais proposed to involve the children and their educators, the seniors and the techniques of the Home, in a research activity on memories and knowledge of oral culture, to be publicly shared in the autumn, in a format to be defined .
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