On Thursday night (30), the Quindim Reading Institute presented the second special edition of Ateliê Araçari. The project offers experimentation and experience workshops in different artistic languages for children and young people from homes, shelters and services for coexistence and strengthening of bonds in Caxias do Sul. After the presentation, guests attended the lecture “Art creates the future”, given by Leda Fonseca, Master in Education, pedagogical consultant for the Iberê Camargo Foundation and pedagogical coordinator for the NGO Parceiros da Educação (RJ).
In 2022, a pilot project was carried out to understand the entities’ need and acceptance of these children who are in social vulnerability and often with little or no access to artistic languages. The learning of the Ateliê Araçari team was fundamental for understanding that the longer they remained working with children and young people, the better the individual and collective results.
For 2023, the project will serve 240 children and young people (from 06 to 17 years old), in 80 workshops in April, May, June and July 2023, after school hours. Students will be received at the Quindim Reading Institute, where they will have activities for a month, once a week. Each of the 20 selected institutions will be able to take 12 children/youths at a time, to take classes that will be divided by institutions. In total, there will be a month of training at Ateliê Araçari, a period necessary to identify skills and desires and, from there, indicate continuity activities in these host institutions and services for coexistence and strengthening of bonds.
The training program includes artistic practices such as: sculpture, dance, theater, music and body expression, cutting and collage, engraving, painting on stones, canvas, paper, among others. The project and all classes are promoted and carried out at the Quindim Reading Institute, a space that, in addition to having local artistic and cultural proposals in Caxias do Sul, is recognized by Municipal Law nº 8561/20 as of public utility.
This edition of the Ateliê Araçari project is financed by the Caxias do Sul Culture Incentive Law/Caxias do Sul City Hall and has the cultural support of the Elizabetha Randon Institute and Villagio Caxias. In addition to institutional partners such as the Social Assistance Foundation (FAS) and the Apadrinhe Program.
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The Quindim Reading Institute (ILQ) is a unique space that celebrates literature in dialogue with multiple languages, located in Caxias do Sul (RS) and open to society as a whole. Its main objective is to guarantee the right to education and culture, through the training of readers, the promotion of books, reading, literature and public service libraries in Brazil and abroad.
There are more than eight years of history and support for children, the right to quality education and the love for stories, inspiring and providing a relationship of exchange between readers, books and art. Since its creation in September 2014, the Institute has carried out more than 120 national actions and more than 30 international actions and, due to the important work it performs, it was declared of public utility by Municipal Law nº 5.861/20.
The Ateliê Araçari project relies on the work and support of two ateliers, an artistic pedagogical coordinator, a librarian and assistant, in addition to music and theater teachers. The team promotes an environment conducive to teaching and fully learning experiences, always attentive to the needs and demands of the participants.
In addition to having free access to more than six thousand five hundred titles present in the Library, children and young people participating in the project can occupy any space in the ILQ, from the exhibition room to the stage, from the slide to writing/drawing on the windows. The exclusive space at Ateliê Araçari has furniture so that experiences are carried out in the best possible way, in addition to easels and paper for painting/drawing and various pens, markers, pencils and inks.
In this project, in addition to the materials above, the activities include natural elements, such as: leaves, branches, seeds, grains, sand, wood in different formats, tree bark, among others, which are part of the structure of the Ateliê’s activities and which enable diverse exploration and discoveries in structures and formats. Varied fabrics and other synthetic materials are also available to participants to create contexts and forms that are part of their creativity. In addition to thousands of books, magazines and newspapers are available for cutting and pasting activities, and can also be used in other activities, from theater to sculpture.
Ateliê Araçari, specifically, is important to democratize the access of children to shelter institutions, nursing homes and coexistence services and to strengthen ties to cultural spaces in the city, aiming at belonging to these spaces as makers of art and culture .
“We know the importance of this project, especially for these people, since childhood and youth are phases of human development whose learning window is in a privileged period for exploration, experimentation and the integral development of the subjects”, says the president from the Quindim Volnei Canonical Reading Institute.
Artistic languages play an important role as mediators in child and youth development, providing the link between experiences arising from playing and imagination with knowledge about the world, relationships and sociability.
The pedagogical conception of Ateliê Araçari is based on research aimed at children and youth, whose objective is integral development (psychic, social, physical, symbolic, cognitive and emotional). The theoretical references for the construction of proposals and conception of the educational process are Loris Malaguzzi, Edith Derdyk, Stela Barbieri, Paulo Focchi, Vea Vecchi, Gandhy Piorski, among other artists, pedagogues and art-education researchers.
