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 invites lookers and scholars * to see and talk monthly about performances between October and May. Each meeting is composed of a performance and a conversation, in which the questions about the performance between the artists and the audiences are bring up to the discussion in a free way.
Ver no Escuro promotes the intimate and regular meeting between artists and audiences, but also the meeting of audience groups with each other, forming an ephemeral community – gathered to Ver no Escuro.
* Ver no Escuro is a project designed for the territory where Material Diversos develops its regular programming, so that will be given priority to viewers coming from Alcanena, Cartaxo and neighboring municipalities.
January 2019
January 13, 16h00
Tiago Rodrigues
SOPRO
TNDM II
February
February 17, 16h30
AMORES PÓS-COLONIAIS
Hotel Europa
April
April 6, 21h00
Followed by a conversation, included in another conversation scheduled by SLTM
BISONTE
Marco da Silva Ferreira
May
May 25, 19h00
La Bande Passante
Vies de Papier (Proposta FIMFA)
Teatro São Luiz
Diversos