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.
“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.
Diversos