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.
Amores Pós-Coloniais begins a new research chapter for the company Hotel Europa extending the research cycle on colonialism to the topic of love. The documentary theatre show intends to reflect on love as a political and utopic space discussing what it meant to love within the colonial and post-colonial space, and how the violence of colonialism conditioned love relationships. This work takes as its methodology, an intersection between archival research and a gathering of actual testimonies. The research considers testimonies with ex-Portuguese soldiers who had children with women in Africa during wartime, women of Portuguese origin who fell in love with black men belonging to the Liberation movements, the relationships that result from the da relations between African countries and East European countries, and the children resulting from those relationships, attempting to scrutinize what love meant during the colonial and post-colonial periods.
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