OPEN ‘MIC’: A STORY ABOUT SOIREES AND INIATIATIVES TO ENCOURAGE READING IN THE HOODS OF FORTALEZA
Poetry; urban space; city; soirees; popular culture.
In some neighborhoods in Fortaleza, people of different genres come together to poet and express themselves artistically. The propositions of the soirees on the outskirts of Fortaleza are the main reason for this research, whose objective is to build reports from the itineraries of the people who guide such spaces, as well as the form of articulation of each proposition. Despite the scarcity of artistic and cultural options in the so-called peripheral spaces, the soirées are presented as manifestations of people motivated to propagate the artistic work, in addition to proposing activities to encourage reading to the different spaces of the city. Through the readings of Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory, I sought to build a theoretical methodological framework that contemplated both poets and mobilizers of these spaces, as well as objects that participate as non-human actors in the objectification and strengthening of soirees. I divided this research into a first chapter, in which I sought to reflect on the origins of artists and cultural agitators from different neighborhoods on the outskirts of Fortaleza. In a second step, I will analyze these soirees and how these association spaces are positioned in relation to the city of Fortaleza. Finally, I will try to bring tools to understand the organization of the Meeting of Soirées de Periferia do Ceará, which in 2020 had its third edition.