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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

Co-Productions

Estudo de Materiais (ou Anacronias Gerais)

Sr. João

Sr. João is a colletive founded in 2009 by Óscar Silva, Pedro Barreiro, Ricardo B. Marques and Silvana Ivaldi, which works mainly in theatre and performance. Sr. João is interested, among other things, in thinking about performative acts as poetic generators and experimentation on the constituting conventions of theatrical forms. Most of the public performances of Sr. João´s shows took place in São Paulo, Brazil, between 2010 and 2014, among which some highlights were Espectáculo Absoluto (2014), Traumatheatre (2012), Tool Box (2012), I Love SP (2011) and Primeira Valsa (2011), preceded by Porque o destino nos segue o rasto como um louco com uma navalha na mão – um espectáculo de passe (2010), which was presented in Lisbon.

Projectos

Estudo de Materiais (ou Anacronias Gerais) is a project developed throughout the first semester of 2019, during which Sr. João will create and introduce ten performative objects at several places on Portuguese territory. These ten proposals will constitute a body of study and research on poetical, fine art, scenic, literary, thematic and conceptual material present in previous work by Sr. João, in a logic of aesthetic plurality gathered together and synthesized for public presentation.

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Creation Sr. João Artistic Direction, Dramaturgy and Performance Pedro Barreiro, Ricardo B. Marques and Silvana Ivaldi Technical Direction Tiago Correia Video Rodrigo Pereira Photography Aline Macedo and Rui Miguel Félix Graphic Design Silvana Ivaldi Production Direction Maria Albergaria Support GDA Foundation Co-production Materiais Diversos Partnerships and Accommodations Ajidanha, Terceira Pessoa, Galeria Underdogs, Centro Nacional de Exposições e Mercados Agrícolas (CNEMA), Electricidade Estética, Cão Solteiro, Cine-Teatro Rogério Venâncio, OtiimaArtWorks, Devir Capa, Galeria Mira, ASTA, Activo Tóxico – Artistas Associados
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