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.
Mistério da Cultura is, mostly, about culture, art, and its models of production, representation and support, but one can never be sure. It is a puzzle of motivations by the artists and the audience, a bureaucratic danced thriller, an enigma to be deciphered. On stage, several questions are raised: What remains of the initial desire to put on a performance? What is unseen when watching a piece? Is it really worth it, to dance, is it better to speak or to listen?
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