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.

Artistic Residencies

2 November 2022 – 11 November 2022

Estúdios Victor Córdon

ENDLESS SUN

Louise Baduel

Louise Baduel and her team have the desire to make a review of interactions between costume and movement in space, of different functions of clothes we choose to wear and thus get away from the utilitarian to research how outfit affects movement and attitude. Clothing also allows us to display identities and thereby explore other ways of being to the world.