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.
Theater play created from the book of the same name by writer David Machado.
In Os Livros do Rei, David Machado writes and Gonçalo Viana illustrates, the story of a Prince who comes to the throne after his father’s death, in an earthquake that completely destroyed the city. Passionate about literature and believing in the possibility of creating a better world – based on the wonderful images he kept from his readings – the prince decides to imagine, project and (perhaps even) rebuild his city. This is a show about reconstruction about destruction, the possibility of dreaming the impossible, architecture, about there being no impossibility in art and, about its role in the construction of tomorrow. A project that lives between literature, theater and illustration.
March 20, 10h30 and 14h (session for schools)
March 21, 16h (session for children & families)
Diversos