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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.

2023
2021
2019
2017

We Produce

Partilhas / Exchanges

Nuno Direitinho/ Materiais Diversos
Nuno Direitinho/ Materiais Diversos
Nuno Direitinho/ Materiais Diversos
Nuno Direitinho/ Materiais Diversos
Nuno Direitinho/ Materiais Diversos
Nuno Direitinho/ Materiais Diversos
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A notebook with several voices, on the path of the storytellers, in a spiral, joining memories of traditional Palestinian, Portuguese dances, family histories, of an entire village, Água das Casas…The piece reads a notebook, dances, acts, in a space where the public is public, is a witness, is a character, a participant in the various voices of a single body, of a journey. In a world where different voices, multiplicity and diversity are increasingly supressed, this is a political and poetical piece. This is my way of resisting, of re-existing.

PREMIERE
28 September 2019 – 29 September 2019
Materiais Diversos Festival, Alcanena, PT

Circulação

2 June 2021
Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra, PT
3 October 2019
Festival contraDANÇA, Covilhã, PT
28 September 2019 — 29 September 2019
Festival Materiais Diversos, Alcanena, PT

Ficha artística

artistic direction, creation and performance Filipa Francisco collaboration/ artistic residency Eleonora Fabião dramaturgic collaboration Gustavo Ciriaco sound design João Bento technical direction Pedro Fonseca/ Colectivo AC video Miguel Canaverde production Sara Abrantes/ Materiais Diversos texts Filipa Francisco, Alexandra Lucas Coelho, Thiago Florencio, Ailton Krenak musical excerpts “Asi Era Ella”, written by Dilema y Murder / Batallones Femeninos; El-Funoun Dance Troupe; “Nome de Maria” (recording by Michel Giacometti) & “Fado do Ti Zé Luís” by the folklore group Os Camponeses de Riachos co-production Materiais Diversos e Mundo em Reboliço support Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação GDA residencies Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Pólo Cultural Gaivotas – Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Companhia Olga Roriz – Palácio Pancas Palha, Casa da Dança de Almada, Teatro Extremo technical production support 23 Milhas - Município de Ílhavo, Colectivo, ac acknowledgment A special thank you to the people from Água das Casas
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