Para Além dos Muros: arte, cultura e lazer como instrumentos de transformação e participação social

Abstract

This paper emerged from the experiences and questions along the personal/academic trajectory, and its main objective is to analyze the impacts and the power of transformation that art, culture and leisure have in the process of formation and development in the context of adolescents and young people whether or not deprived of liberty. The methodology follows a quali-quantitative approach, where questionnaire instruments were used with CSE interns and semi-structured interviews with young people from the Timbó Community. Therewith, we obtained results that answered the questions asked about inequality in access to art, culture and leisure and the possibilities from the realization of these rights. We understand that even after the advances in legislation that support the researched subjects, there is still a deepening of social vulnerabilities, the absence of adolescents and young people in the spaces that should be occupied by them, the difficulties of access to cultural and leisure equipment, mainly, for economic reasons. And in hospitalization, repression, negligence and limitations of initiatives in the axis – culture, art and leisure. Therefore, it is essential for the State to invest in policies aimed at making these rights effective, in public schools and peripheral areas, where low-income populations live, mostly black/brown. As well as the offer of activities and courses focused on this theme, in the socio-educational units, in addition to a pedagogical/educational performance by professionals in the area, with the aim of facilitating the construction of life projects that distance the inmates from crime, so that they are not reinserted into the system.