BANANADA: OPERANTÍPODA (Part I) — Marcelo Evelin
Marcelo Evelin will be in residence in Caen and Faro in April, and will hold an open rehearsal on the 17th at 7pm in Caen.
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.
From February to May, the invited artists, Marta Tomé and Raquel Senhorinho, will develop workshops with four 5th grade classes and four 7th grade classes, from the Alcanena School Group. This project has taken different forms each year and aims to reinforce the relationships between natural and social ecosystems, with a view to their diversity and sustainability, taking advantage of the natural heritage of the municipality of Alcanena. Also in this context, the educator and researcher Simone Longo de Andrade leads a workshop for teachers on how to bring Human Rights into educational practice.