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.
Rosa do Fontão had a son, Joaquim, from Moreira and Nelo, from Abílio da Grade. Alzira had a son, Zé, from Moreira. Maria, from Leonor, had a daughter, Inácia, daughter of Portela, and Alberto, son of Moreira. And Palmira had a son, Herculano, and a daughter, Joaquina, both sons of Moreira. Moreira had 7 children; 5 illegitimate and 2 legitimate.
For the creation of this performance we start from the memory of the story of Palmira, Anabela’s maternal grandmother. Palmira raised the two children on her own of an “incognito” father, became an independent and autonomous woman, chose to have the profession of dressmaker and refused marriage proposals that would allow her to restore “social honor”. Some of the paradigms that cross the path of women are centered in this memory, echoing multiple reverberations today. In this performance we focus on female identity in a peri-urban and rural context and, in a broader sense, also on fundamental aspects of gender and family relationships.
What perspectives do women and men have about work, motherhood, love, power? In the face of such distant social and political realities, what has changed, what remains? Are there other relationships with men in fatherhood?
We head to Minho, to the Center and the South of the country to talk with women and men about the feminine, the masculine and the family, thus establishing the dramaturgical lines with which this creation is sewn.
Participates in the research of the performance Palmira
Teatro Meia Volta is looking for people who want to talk about the feminine and the masculine, and about the roles that men and women have played in society.
Anabela Almeida and Sara Duarte are in Cartaxo and Alcanena doing research for the creation of the performance “Palmira”, which debuts at the Festival Materiais Diversos, in October 2021, and would like to count on your participation. If you are available to answer some questions related to the themes of women and men and their roles in society, send your answers by January 21 by email (in writing or audio) or by letter. For more information contact by phone 938414488 or by email info@materiaisdiversos.com
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