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.
This is the first of a set of three residencies that will culminate in a creation of a multidisciplinary nature, designed for the Festival Materiais Diversos, where environmental and artistic concerns intersect.
More than giving the community another look at the territory, this project aims to develop a set of actions that dialogically rethink practices of occupation, usufruct and interaction in urban space, understanding it not only as a place of production and circulation of people and goods, but above all as a place of human roots, catalyst of biodiversity, animal and plant species ecosystem. Habitat.
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