Coexistence in everyday life

Authors

  • Adriano Mauriz Urban Doves Institute
  • Paulo Carvalho Urban Doves Institute

Abstract

“We arrived with a theater project and consolidate a cultural center.” At hearing this, some people would believe that the Pombas Urbanas [the Urban Pigeons], as the members of this group like to be called, are either modest or naive. Neither one nor the other thing. The Pombas are fully aware of the scope of the work they realize. It is true that sometimes they seem surprised to see the good results of the different projects they put into practice, but they know perfectly well that it results from rich and complex processes, for which they are very attentive.

Formed in 1989 by director Lino Rojas young from São Miguel Paulista, eastern São Paulo, the group today is responsible for the Centro cultural Arte e Construção in Cidade Tiradentes, also in eastern São Paulo. Officially Instituto Pombas Urbanas, it develops several activities, programs and cultural activities with communities of Cidade Tiradentes, in the transformed space of a large abandoned warehouse where the group was established in 2004. The Pombas began in Cidade Tiradentes in doing theater. Today, their daily activities involve theater, circus, dance, music, graffiti, radio, literacy, telecenter, among others. The main focus of activities is, as they say, strengthening the cultural identity of people in the community, and understanding their needs and capabilities so they can enlarge their human capabilities and solve common problems collectively.

Partner of Nomads.usp in some research projects, the Pombas Urbanas is therefore a group of people who experience, in their daily lives, several coexistences. As actors, they experience the simultaneous existence of a character and a person, a public face and an other, particular, occupying the same space. As executors of cultural projects, they overlap cultural activities and community, local management and management in public instances – federal and state spheres, and even private. As a theater group linked to the reality of Sao Paulo peripheries, also live with other more central realities etc.. They experience the notion of coexistence in many ways, different and simultaneous.

We talked for two hours with the Pombas Urbanas in November 16, 2010, via MSN, on these issues, and we present here the record of this conversation. The V!RUS journal is immensely grateful to Pombas for this interview.

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Author Biographies

Adriano Mauriz, Urban Doves Institute

MAIN WORKS CARRIED OUT PARTICIPATION IN PROJECTS CARRIED OUT BY URBAN DOVES INSTITUTE PROJECT: THEATER AND CIRCUS WORKSHOPS - teaches theater and circus courses since 1996 in community centers on the outskirts of São Paulo, transferring knowledge about the formation of the actor in his artistic process in neighborhoods such as Parelheiros, Perus, Vila São José, Barro Branco, Luz, Pirituba, São Miguel Paulista, Itaquera, Guaianazes, Pirituba, Paraisópolis and Cidade Tiradentes. Taught the following courses: Cultural Workshop Luiz Gonzaga, course on the process of training an actor at Urban Doves in 1996. Theater course for beginners for teenagers from São Miguel Paulista, based on the preparation of the actor from Urbans Doves Company from São Miguel Paulista (2,000) Florescer Project in Favela Paraisópolis for children and adolescents (2,000). Theater Course at Projeto Quimera, Teatro Martins Penna (2002). He currently teaches Theater and Circus classes at the Arte em Construção Cultural Center, in the Cidade Tiradentes neighborhood. MAPPING AND CULTURAL DIAGNOSIS FOR THE CULTURE FACTORIES PROGRAM 2004 and 2005 With the coordination of Lino Rojas, he participated in the mapping of cultural entities through a participatory construction process, the Cultural Plan for the districts of Cidade Tiradentes, Sapopemba, Vila Curuçá and Itaim Paulista. PROJECT: A PARTNERSHIP THAT WORKS - YEAR: 2002. Creation and presentations of an Institutional show for SEBRAE-SP, under the guidance of the Culture Center and Agribusiness Area, reflecting the problems of small producers and encouraging entrepreneurship. There were about 40 presentations at agribusiness fairs, launches of the program SAI - Integrated Agroindustrial System of SEBRAE and meetings of small rural producers in cities in the interior of the State of São Paulo. PARTNERSHIPS: SEBRAE-SP PROJECT: SAFE INTIMATE VISIT YEAR: 2002. In this year, women prisoners began to exercise the right to receive intimate visits from their partners, in the same year the profession of community health agent was created, the Intimate Visit Project is then implemented in the Women's Penitentiary of Tatuapé and trains 40 multiplying agents of health using theatrical practice in the formation of these people. PARTNERSHIPS: National STD/AIDS Coordination - Ministry of Health, NGO História do Presente, NGO Housing and Citizenship of CEF Employees. PROJECT: QUIMERA - 1st COMPETITION FOR OCCUPANCY OF DISTRICT THEATERS YEAR: 2001 and 2002. Developed at Martins Penna Theatre, where introductory theater courses were held for young people, debates, lectures, presentations of shows from the Institute's repertoire, which also promoted the formation of two theater groups and the creation of a dramatic text based on life experiences. students and neighborhood stories. PARTNERSHIPS: Municipal Secretary of Culture of São Paulo PROJECT: MONITORS TRAINING OF THE RECREIO ON VACATION PROJECT YEAR: 2002. The "Recreio" project, run by the City of São Paulo, aims to strengthen the school's relationship with the community, expand knowledge, offer leisure and culture to students and, above all, provide participants from different regions of São Paulo with the possibility of perceiving themselves as part of the city and enjoy the cultural and recreational assets it offers. In this project, Urban Doves Institute advised the Education Department in a sense of transferring its experience from projects with young people from the periphery, guiding the monitors in the recognition of the young person in question. PARTNERSHIPS: Municipal Departments of Education, Culture, Sport and Recreation, Supply and Environment.

Paulo Carvalho, Urban Doves Institute

Actor, director of shows and guiding artist in the area of Performing Arts, working for 32 years as an actor, 20 years as a guiding artist and 15 years as a theater director. With a repertoire of 15 shows. He develops sociocultural projects in the 3rd sector in peripheries and communities. And he has already carried out projects as a theater teacher for the Culture Departments of the State and Municipality of São Paulo and for the Education Department of the Municipality of São Paulo.

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Published

2022-05-08

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 04 (2010): V!04 Designing Coexistence

Section

Entrevista