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.
During an artistic residency at the Junta de Freguesia de Minde between May 3 and 12, Natália Mendonça will focus on the project Kdeiraz. The chair is the protagonist of this multidisciplinary performance and the great propeller of encounters and experimentations. Since childhood, we spend our lives sitting as we eat, study, work and stare at ubiquitous electronic screens. In the history of human beings, we’re drastically changing the way we (do not) move, and what stands to lose the most is our body. Natália Mendonça carries out an informal presentation at the end of the residency for students from the Minde secondary school.
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