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.
What are we, as individual beings that inhabit our bodies ?, what do we think, what do we feel, in the relationship with ourselves, when we are alone ?, what are our deepest internal issues, when we find ourselves in the silence of the outside and in our inner noise?
I tried in this work, to have as material for reflection, not only my internal reality, but also that of a collective of people, with whom I have personal and / or professional relationships. I am interested in listening to what they think and what they feel, when they are in their “internal noise”. My focus has been the slow observation of a group of people with psychopathology who come to me with reports of their experiences, these reports are not always verbal, also the body, the behavior inform me of what they feel …, another focus it has been the texts written by some people whom I have challenged to reflect on these issues …
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