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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
20 July 2020 – 24 July 2020

Uma peça feliz e directa sobre a tristeza

Joana Pupo

Joana Pupo has a Masters in Theater/ Movement from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema; has a degree in Philosophy / FCSH – Universidade Nova de Lisboa; and graduated in Theater from Estudio Nancy Tuñon, in Barcelona.
She was selected for the École des Maitres in 2005 and was invited as an assistant in 2006 and 2008, with Pippo Delbono and Enrique Diaz.
She has developed work as a creator and interpreter, collaborating with artists such as Marina Nabais, Inês de Carvalho, Márcia Lança, João Calixto, among others. Gives training in the theater area regularly to young people and adults.

Projectos

“Uma peça feliz e directa sobre a tristeza” is a project that starts from a vital and close encounter – with the public – to talk about the themes of sadness and isolation. The need to look at sadness and depression head-on is invoked, as something that is part of life and that appeals to the need to activate the body, memory, imagination, humor and listening the other.
A play for teenagers thinking of a heterogeneous audience, interested in practicing the things that are worth living for.

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