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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

Artistic Residencies
5 April 2022 – 9 April 2022
Estúdios Vítor Córdon

O Primeiro Sol

M̶i̶g̶u̶e̶l̶ Bonneville

Miguel Bonneville (Porto, 1985) introduce us to an autobiographical story centered on the deconstruction and reconstruction of identity through performances, drawings, photographs, video, music and artist books.
Since 2003, he has presented his work in art galleries and national and international festivals, mainly the series projects ‘Family Project’, ‘Miguel Bonneville’ and ‘The Importance of Being’.
He was part of the group of artists of contemporary dance production Eira (2004-2006) and Galeria 3 + 1 Arte Contemporânea (2009-2013).
He received the Ex Aequo Award (2015) for the performances ‘Fear and Feminisms’, in collaboration with Maria Gil, and ‘The Importance of Being Simone de Beauvoir’. The show ‘Chérie, Chéri’ was highlighted as one of the best of the year 2016 by journalist Cláudia Galhós in Jornal Expresso.
He was a resident artist at Sítio das Artes, CAMJAP – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2007), Homesession (Barcelona, 2008), Mugatxoan – Serralves Foundation (Porto, 2010), Transeuropa2012 Festival (Hildesheim, 2012), Arts Printing House (Vilnius, 2013), Arte y Desarrollo (Madrid, 2014), and La Box (Bourges, 2018), among others.
Sporadically teaches composition of authorial performance in different national and international structures.

Projectos

Sofia Dinger

Sofia Dinger completed her master’s degree in theater at the Das Arts school in Amsterdam. She has invested in additional training with people like Rogério de Carvalho, João Fiadeiro, Carlota Lagido, Ângela Schanelec, Olga Mesa, Beatriz Batarda, Vera Mantero, Miguel Loureiro, Thomas Richards, Jonathan Burrows, Kassys. Sofia created and interpreted “A Song to hear you come” (Maria Matos Teatro Municipal, Festival Alkantara, 2018), “The story of a love” (project Traça / Alkantara, 2017), “Grande Ilusão” (Temps d’Images , 2014 and Plataforma das Artes Performativas, 2015), “Nothing’s ever yours to keep” (Maria Matos Teatro Municipal, 2011) and “Noites Brancas” (in partnership with Paula Diogo and Mónica Calle for the Festival de Almada, 2013). As an interpreter he worked with Mónica Calle, Blitz Theater Group, Sara Carinhas, Rui Catalão, Teatro do Vestido, Francisco Salgado, Tiago Vieira, David Pereira Bastos, Gonçalo Amorim. In cinema, he met with directors such as Leonardo Mouramateus, André Lage, Paulo Menezes and Pedro Filipe Marques. She received the Bernardo Santareno Prize, in the category of revelation actress (2011) and an honorable mention for the performance in the short film Lullaby (André Lage), in the 16th edition of the Luso Brasileiro Film Festival of Santa Maria da Feira. The show “A grande illusão” was highlighted as one of the best in 2014 by critic João Carneiro in Jornal Expresso. In 2013, she joined the Try Angle laboratory in Montemor-o-Novo (at the invitation of Tiago Rodrigues) and in 2015, she joined the 1Space project (at the invitation of Thomas Walgrave) between Portugal, Congo, Palestine and South Africa. A version of her latest solo “A Song to Hear You Come” was performed at the Under Construction festival in Ghent.

Projectos

Two allegorical figures: a skeleton holding a scythe and a ball of fire stands next to a female figure. Lithograph. Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons
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If everything goes wrong, we can always kill ourselves – she said.
In Treplev, in fact, there is a lot of me – he said.

O Primeiro Sol is the first artistic collaboration by Sofia Dinger and M̶i̶g̶u̶e̶l̶ Bonneville.
Taking Anton Tchekov’s Seagull as a starting point – and so many other (auto) biographical references connected with it – we distance ourselves from it because we approach problems by talking about them directly. The detours tire us.
Treplev and Nina – two of the main characters in the play – seek meaning in their lives, believing that they will find their identities through art. Nina wants to be an actress. Treplev wants to be a writer. Both believe that achieving these goals will give their lives more meaning.
We decided to ask Nina and Treplev questions over the next two years, to talk to them about our days, to listen to them with songs that comfort us in the dark, or revolt us, or set us on fire. Take them to parties until dawn. Crossing our time with theirs, maybe poetry. And the possible suicide. To be able to say: for now is enough. Close your eyes and, more than fall asleep, be able to say: I don’t want to. Take the leap and not want to fly. To be able to say: I am free.

Artistic Residency 2020
June 22nd to 26th and June 29th to July 3rd
Vitor Cordon Studios, Lisbon

Artistic Residency 2022
5th of April
Cartaxo Cultural Center

Informal presentation 2022
April 9, 9:30 pm
Cartaxo Cultural Center

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