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.
S e n s o is a methodology which we propose for researching the cultural and artistic sensibility of a given community. We propose observing the social conditions, positions in relation to art and to entertainment, the systems of beliefs and values, the social and aesthetic identity of the community.
The main objective of this research is to be able to work with the acquired information resulting from our investigative action, which will be transformed into artistic material to be developed by members of the collective through various media (audiovisual, body, fine arts, design), as well as with elements of the community.
The artistic product of this research will result in an exhibition, which will have as its objective a conciliation between art and sociological study, which will permit us to find a more viable way to respond not only to the need for (known or unknown) artistic answers in our region but also to our own needs for creation and artistic expression.
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