Tell the history of community through the emblematic figures of popular culture. Open spaces to communicate and discuss our traditions and aspects like popular religiosity, alternative and holistic medicine, exploring founders miths and the constrution of narratives. Support members of community with training to use your gadgets, like cell phones or digital cameras, to produce content for internet (basically video and photography).
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Sao Miguel dos Campos, Alagoas
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Our objective is give to the possibility for this public, the oportunity of re-make your own history through the visual poetics (video and photography), recognizing the personages of popular culture and seeing them like part of a historic process of negation of rights and social exclusion, however, owners of a legacy of fights, for survival and repressed expression. In the forgotten speeches recover its role as a subject of history.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
- Associação de Jovens do Bairro de Fátima (Young Association of Fatima's Neighboorhood)
– Prefeitura Municipal de São Miguel dos Campos (Municipality of Sao Miguel dos Campos)
– Coletivo Popfuzz (Collective Popfuzz)
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We will choose 25 participants from the municipal system of education that living in that district. We will sustain their participation through expositive lectures and practice activities. We want to train the view of the participants to recognizing stories and personages in your own community and increment their participation through the process to develop cultural products, thereby developing competences that can be used in other activities.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
The grant provide all necessary resources to develop the project (including acquisition of equipment). The municipal government will assign the spaces where the activities will take place and the computers where the content will be edited. However, the experience with the public mobilization and in the prodution of midiatic content to give voice for underrepresented communities, it will be important for the development of the project.
