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.
In the next edition of Na Prática, Lígia Soares and Henrique Frazão invite us to look at the political impact of art-making and activism by bringing together different ways of thinking and acting in the world. Looking into the symbolic, literal, aesthetic and social dimension that an artistic gesture or a protest action take on, we will seek to explore perspectives and approaches that reinforce the political value of both practices around common causes. We will also pay attention to the way in which contexts define how our actions are interpreted — how the same discourse is received by different audiences on different occasions. Do artistic gesture and protest action carry or oppose each other? What do we really have in common that we can share?
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PRATICAL INFORMATION
Participants: Artists, researchers and students from all disciplinary areas, or anyone interested in collaborative practices or activism.
Maximum of participants: 12
Applications:
Until May 31st
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Application fee
100 Eur
10% discount for FLUL students*
Every year, we offer a scholarship to the IN PRACTICE – Summer School to one person from each of the partner schools and under the following conditions:
— Students of the Program in Theater Studies or Researchers at the Center for Theater Studies at FLUL
— Students at the Master’s in Choreographic Creation and Professional Practices at the Superior School of Dance
— Students of the Theater’s and Fine Art’s Courses at ESAD.CR – Superior School of Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha
*If this is your case, please fill the fields in thr form marked with ✤
Registrations mode
The interested people must fill this form.
The applications will be analyzed and there will be a selection, considering the diversity and relevance of the profile of the participants int the constitution of a workgroup and in the development of the proposed issues.
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