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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

Artistic Residencies
6 May 2019 – 11 May 2019
Centro Cultural do Cartaxo

Enseada

Miguel Castro Caldas

Writes for the stage and for paper, translates and teaches classes on dramaturgy for the Bachelor Degree in Theatre at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design. He has worked in theatre with Bruno Bravo, Jorge Silva Melo, Gonçalo Waddington, António Simão, Tiago Rodrigues, Gonçalo Amorim, Teresa Sobral, Raquel Castro, Pedro Gil, Lígia Soares, among others. Some of his texts are published in the collection Livrinhos de Teatro dos Artistas Unidos, by the publisher Ambar, at Douda Correria, at Mariposa Azual, at Culturgest, at Primeiros Sintomas, and in the magazines Artistas Unidos, Fatal and Blimunda. He translated Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Ali Smith, William Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Senel Paz, among others.

Projectos

Filipe Pinto

Someone arrives home tired. The person sees a small paper on the floor that says: “I like you” and hands it to another person who was already there. This is repeated so many times that it becomes a thing of the past.

Ficha técnica

Direction and Text Miguel Castro Caldas Creation Miguel Castro Caldas, Élvio Camacho, Filipe Pinto, João Caldas, Márcia Lança, Marta Félix Performers Élvio Camacho, Márcia Lança, Marta Félix Scenic Space Sara Franqueira Scenography Assistant Joana Sabogueiro Costumes Marta Félix Music João Caldas Lighting Cristóvão Cunha Dramaturgy Support Ana Matoso Executive Production Marta Moreira Residencies Materiais Diversos and CCVF Production Org.i.a Co-production Teatro Nacional D. Maria II and Centro Cultural Vila Flor Project supported by the Portuguese Republic - Culture/Direção-Geral das Artes

Preview

May 11, 21h30
Centro Cultural do Cartaxo
Free Entry | M/12
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