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.
VER NO ESCURO is the club of spectators of Materiais Diversos, created in 2017 for the territories where Materiais develops its programme – Minde, Alcanena and Cartaxo. It aims to promote a regular meeting between artists and audiences, but also the meeting of spectators among themselves, constituting an ephemeral community. For three seasons, once a month, interested people watched a show and talked about the issues it raised.
In times of contagion and isolation, we thought that this would be the best way to be together. If we cannot make our encounter in the theater possible, we can make it possible thanks to the theater – in images, ideas and words. Gathered together to “see in the dark”, we will continue to resist banality and to feed (our) world with other sensibilities and visions. Gathered together to see in the dark, we will continue to imagine humanity.
So we adapted the club to a place of multiple possibilities, the online one, and to a time of many expectations. The meeting will continue to be monthly and will count with the special presence of a guest (a) to talk about selected shows and share concerns that contaminate arts, society and politics.
Session: Morrer em dança: que políticas para que vidas
With Volmir Cordeiro
25 June, 21h
zoom platform
session in Portuguese
Session: Re-activation questions. From Kontakthof, by Pina Bausch
With Olga de Soto
23 of September, 21h
plataform zoom
session in English
Session: Marta Tomé about the choreographic work of Catarina MirandaWith Marta Tomé
28 of October, 21h
plataform zoom
Session in Portuguese
Sessão: João dos Santos Martins about Eszter Salamon, Vera Mantero and Trisha BrownCom João dos Santos Martins
25 of November, 21h
plataforma zoom
Session in Portuguese
Diversos