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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.

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Miguel Januário

Miguel Januário

Miguel Januário was born in Porto in 1981. He attended Communication Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 1999 and, from that year on, began to develop graffiti interventions in urban space. He established himself as a freelancer at the cultural space ‘Maus Hábitos’, in Porto, where he created his first studio. In 2005, in the academic field, he created the intervention project ‘± MAISMENOS ±’, which became a reference in the national and international panorama of urban art. The project is also the focus of doctoral research, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Under the banner ‘±MaisMenos ±’, he produced several creative works, in a variety of media, from video to installation, painting to performance. In addition to numerous illegal public art interventions in several countries, the project was also exhibited in individual and group exhibitions in various institutional contexts, among which the Galeria Vera Cortês (Lisbon, 2010), MACE-Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas stand out. (Elvas, 2011, 2014), Underdogs Gallery (Lisbon, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021), Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília, 2014), Graça Morais Contemporary Art Center (Bragança, 2015), MUDE -Museum of Design and Fashion (Lisbon, 2016), MACRO-Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Rome, 2016), Wunderkammern Gallery (Rome, 2017), Celaya Brothers Gallery (Mexico City, 2018), Arco Lisboa (Lisbon , 2018), WTF Gallery (Bangkok, 2018), MAAT (Lisbon, 2022), and art festivals and events such as Walk&Talk (São Miguel, Azores, 2011), Guimarães European Capital of Culture (Guimarães, 2012), La Tour Paris 13 (Paris, 2013), Wool Festival (Covilhã, 2014), Sporo (Proença-a-Nova, 2022), Nuart Festival (Stavanger, 2014, 2017), TrashPlant Festival (Tenerife, 2018), Roskilde Festival (Roskilde, 2018), among others.

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The “maismenos” workshop aims to reflect on reality and, using ‘do it yourself’ tools, intervene in the public sphere. The maismenos project will be shared, followed by the creation of posters using simple tools, such as stenciling, writing, drawing, collage and photocopying, which in the end will be pasted on the street. The workshop will serve as an inspiration for the realization of intervention projects in the future, demonstrating that from accessible and cheap materials it is possible to create messages with impact.
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