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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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15 October 2018 – 8 May 2019

Vida ao Corpo

Dance Workshops for Seniors

Em Órbita Colectivo

Em Órbita is an informal collective formed by Rita Machado and Sandra Caldeira, collaborating since 2016.
Its mission is to offer a regular cycle of activities within the cultural and training sectors, aimed at an adult public over the age of 55.
www.emorbita.pt
Rita Machado Has a Bachelor Degree in Clinical Psychology from ISPA (2001); Master Degree in Art Therapy (2005) from the University of Barcelona and is a certified trainer by IEFP.
In Barcelona, she acquired experience in cultural mediation, management and direction of educational services. She developed various projects directed at different collectives, honing her interest in the senior collective. In Portugal, she collaborated with different entities as a trainer, cultural mediator and implementing her own projects.
Currently, she develops her profession as an independent worker, creating cultural and training proposals for adults, which focus on utilizing living and creative processes, which can provide well-being and quality of life.
Co-founder of the collective EM ÓRBITA.

Sandra Caldeira has a Bachelor Degree in Clinical Psychology (ISPA, 1998), and a Post-Graduate Degree in Psychogerontology (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2015). Trainer certified by the Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua/Ministério da Educação and by IEFP.
She teaches dance for more than 20 years, in various contexts and to different age and population groups.
She collaborated as performer with several independent choreographers in the area of Contemporary Dance. Was co-founder, co-creator and performer of the group O Resto.
In cultural production, she worked at the Clube Português de Artes e Ideias (1998-99) and at Forum Dança (1999-2018).
Currently, she directs her work towards an adult public over the age of 55
Co-founder of the collective EM ÓRBITA.

Projectos

Vida ao Corpo (Life to the Body) is a group of workshops aimed at senior citizens, conceived by the collective Em Órbita for Materiais Diversos, which aims to turn daily movement conscious and stimulate its use as a creative tool. Awakening to the body in its present state, and expanding knowledge about posture, movement, energy, musicality, relationship to space and others, we aim to build new ways of being with it, and through it to communicate.

Ficha técnica

Conception and Orientation Rita Machado e Sandra Caldeira

Note

1st edition October 15 to November 5, 2018
2nd edition April 3 and May 8, 2019

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