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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.

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Artistic ResidenciesCo-Productions
9 July 2021 – 13 July 2021
Cartaxo Central Park

Tocar o Paraíso

Teatro do Frio

Teatro do Frio is an artistic collective created in 2005 and inserted in the regional context of Northern Portugal. The collective was created with the purpose of privileging research in theatrical creation, with a desire for the crossing of different disciplines. Since 2013, the Teatro do Frio has been investigating thresholds and contact zones between the processes of theatrical creation and sound art, acoustics, dance and compositional writing. In this premise, it has deepened the investment in the creation of shows where performer and word emerge from the systematic investigation around the relationships that can be created between emotion, action, and thoughts. Their dramaturgical / compositional writing comes from a grammar that relates voice, body, space and sound. Since 2016, the collective has been investigating the relationship between dramaturgical writing and landscape, extending this exercise in 2017 to the concept of sonic drama, relating kinesthesia [body language] and toponymy [language of territory].

Teatro do Frio is supported by DGARTES.

Projectos

Imagem: Gonçalo Mota

Through a process of listening to the inhabitants of Cartaxo and people who frequent the Central Park, Teatro do Frio develops the project Tocar o Paraíso with which it intends to contribute to the regeneration of the garden as a common and mobilizing interest to action and enjoyment, promoting a performative platform and contact  between human beings and plant beings.

During the residency, Teatro do Frio develops a set of collaborative actions for the occupation of public space, walks through the garden and “more” performative actions, including projection of films that develop and deepen) gestures and/or themes of action.

Tocar o Paraíso has its premiere scheduled for the Festival Materiais Diversos 2021

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Artistic Direction RODRIGO MALVAR and CATARINA LACERDA Dramaturgy CATARINA LACERDA Light Design JOÃO ABREU Interpretation ACTORS TO BE DESIGNATED Composition + Device Technological TIAGO ÂNGELO and RODRIGO MALVAR Sculptural Composition and Assembly Places HUGO RIBEIRO Video Creation RICARDO COUTO Technicians from the Chamber's Environment Division Municipal TO DESIGNATE Research and article creation GONÇALO MOTA
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