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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

Co-Productions

Viagem a Portugal

Teatro do Vestido

O Teatro do Vestido is a theatre collective founded in 2001, which has up to now directed more than 40 pieces, and various other initiatives sharing their creative methods. The company´s work is based on research and experimentation, as well as the development of an original dramaturgy, based on several departure points. It is further characterized by a strong relationship with a variety of performance spaces, in both urban and rural contexts, as well as the development of initiatives which envision the creation of a community of spectators who are attentive to and involved in the reflection on reality. The company works collaboratively, under the artistic direction of Joana Craveiro. In 2012, the Teatro do Vestido received an honourable mention from the pela APCT – Associação Portuguesa de Críticos de Teatro (Portuguese Association of Theatre Critics) for “an activity open to all forms of art, attentive to all citizens and curious about everything that happens in the world in which people live.”

Projectos

We have borrowed the title from José Saramago in order to dive, like him, into Portugal – into its past as well as its present. Based on the family histories of the members of the Teatro do Vestido team, located in various regions of Portugal – Minho, Ribatejo, Alentejo, Beira Baixa, Algarve – with this project, we have launched ourselves into the pursuit of the response to our ever-present question – how did we get here?, diving into this pilgrimage through the interior(s) of the country, its landscapes, people, historical and present legacies. What inheritances from 48 years of dictatorship remained or remain here? When did the leaps of social mobility which gathered us together as a team in the capital of the country happen, all of us possessing higher degrees, as opposed to the generations which preceded us? What Portugal is this, in which we now live?

Teatro do Vestido

Cronologia

ESTREIA
27 September 2019
Festival Materiais Diversos, Alcanena, PT

Ficha técnica

Text and Direction Joana Craveiro Co-creation and Performance Ana Lúcia Palminha, Estêvão Antunes, Gustavo Vicente, Joana Craveiro, Rosinda Costa and Tânia Guerreiro Costumes Ainhoa Vidal Lighting Design João Cachulo Production Cláudia Teixeira
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