Construcción de pensamiento en políticas públicas y procesos artísticos con infancias: reflexiones a partir del programa de iniciación artística – piá.

Abstract

I propose here to articulate refections about the structuring of public policies in the feld of arts and childhoods, considering some actions carried out in PIÁ - Artistic Initiation Program, between 2008 and 2018, specifcally. This program has been taking place for more than 14 years, uninterruptedly, in the four macro-regions of the city of São Paulo - SP, with management of the Secretariat of Culture in partnership with Education. Its practices are with and for children and adolescents between 5 and 14 years old and artists educators of the languages of music, theater, literature, visual arts and dance, with the present participation of family members, managers and communities of the territories where the experiences are established. In this context, among many relevant aspects for this refection, it is highlighted, among its structuring axes, a look at the Childhoods that consider them as people of rights, purposers and artistic creators, as the proposition of creation processes that respect the temporalities of childhood and that value the horizontality, dialogue, respect and reception in the relations between educators and children, participation and defagration of artistic processes. Considering that these factors reinforce a confrontation with hegemonic powers, there is a need to think about ways to build public policies that establish actions committed to guaranteeing practices in art and education that prioritize the protagonism and participation of children. In this sense, the creation of public policies that support such participatory axes may be a path towards more respectful processes in relation to the participation of children and adolescents in society, in the public sphere, and through artistic experiences. In the construction of this thought, I will use as a foundation mainly documents that relate PIÁ’s own experience in its practices and attempts to enable the approval of a law that would make it an efective public policy in the city, as well as the contributions of researchers such as Anete Abramowicz, Maria Walburga dos Santos and Vera M. Ferrão Candau, in the feld of Latin American Sociology of Childhood and Manfred Liebel and the approach to the concept of participation and child protagonism.