Porto Alegre becomes the stage for the innovative 1st National Childhood Culture Conference, scheduled for the 24th and 25th of February. This pioneering event, an initiative of the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the National Childhood Culture Working Group, aims to emphasize the importance of children’s cultural rights and their active role in cultural production. The conference will serve as preparation for the 4th National Culture Conference, scheduled to take place from March 4th to 8th in Brasília, with the presence of Márcio Tavares and Márcia Rollemberg from MinC.
The meeting will bring together a diverse audience, including children aged 2 to 12, educators, childhood activists, artists and various cultural agents dedicated to the world of children in Brazil. The program includes activities such as active listening to children, screening of children’s films, debates on the trajectory of public policies aimed at Childhood Culture and a final plenary, where children’s perceptions will be the focus.
Márcia Rollemberg, Secretary of Citizenship and Cultural Diversity, highlights the importance of listening to children and including their perspectives in the formulation of cultural policies. She highlights the need to address childhood as a central axis and ensure their effective participation in the review of the National Cultural Plan. For Márcia, understanding the cultural diversity of children is crucial to building a more inclusive society that respects differences.
Karen Acioly, from the National Group for Childhood Culture, and Emídio Sanderson, highlight the relevance of integrating Childhood Culture into national cultural policies. They emphasize that the inclusion of children in cultural debates is fundamental for the recognition of their cultural identities and for the construction of a richer and more diverse culture.
Children’s presence at the conference is seen as essential to developing policies that will directly influence their lives, bringing their visions and desires to the forefront. The National Childhood Culture Group, made up of a network of artists, researchers, managers and cultural producers from various regions of Brazil, comes together around the common objective of promoting state cultural policies for childhood.
This thematic meeting on Childhood Culture is an opportunity to reflect on the needs and aspirations of children, guiding the formulation of Brazilian cultural policies for the next decade. Three proposals will be selected at this stage and forwarded for discussion at the national stage.
Registration is open to the public and can be made here.
Schedule
02/24 (Saturday)
9am to 12pm – Registration
Sala 1
09:30 am – Film screening
CM/GT Cultura Infância Entry – Clarice Cardell
10am to 11am – Opening ceremony with children, by themselves.
11am to 12pm – Authorities Solemnity
- Ministry of Culture
- Childhood Culture Group
- Children’s Villages
- Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship
- Ministry of Education
- Education Commission Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul
- Federal Deputy Maria do Rosário
- Vice Rector of UniRio
Sala 2
11am to 2pm – Listening to children
Sala 1
2pm to 2:30pm – History of public policies for Childhood Culture / GT Childhood Culture
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm – Listening/Plenary Guests: Casa Civil, UNICEF, CONANDA, SNCA-MDHC, MinC, MEC, GT Cultura Infância.
Sala 2
2pm to 4pm – Listening to children
4:30 pm to 5 pm – Artistic attraction
5pm to 7pm – Proposal Organization GTs | Methodology: GT Cultura Infância (without children)
25/02 (domingo)
9am to 11am – Children’s plenary with mediation by the character Abelardo
Presentation of the methodology by the mediators. Children’s exhibition. Feedback on the perceptions obtained through sensitive listening to children’s narratives.
11:20am to 12pm – Children’s cinema show
1:40 pm to 3:30 pm – Final Plenary
Share the results of the previous day (with adults and children) articulating the children’s statements, proposals from the National Group Cultura Infância and MinC.
Methodology: presentation of the previous day’s results and thematic listening.
Service
1st National Childhood Culture Conference
- Data: February 24th and 25th, 2024
- Time: 9h
- Local: Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. (Praça Marechal Deodoro, 101 – Porto Alegre/RS – 90010-300. Porto Alegre/RS)
