Políticas culturais no Ceará: estudo sobre a criação do Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste

Abstract

The cultural policies in Brazil allow, today, huge actions in artistic production area, so as the preservation of national estate embracing many sectors of economy and society. Nonetheless, this scenario wasn’t ever well aided with resources and wealthy projects to the sector: our history shows a long period of instability of these policies, which I’ll call “protopolicies” through the text. During the re-democratization process (post military dictatorship) the State engaged some actions favorable to the creation of a National System for Culture, but clearly headed to a position of encouragement on private enterprises’ cultural investments, especially during President Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s two terms of government. Taking Ceará in a moment of important politic changes, as also the fact of its importance as a national cultural pole, I’m showing how the Banco do Nordeste Cultural Center (which belongs to a bank that is kept by over ninety percent of federal money) is born in a time of apparent “contradiction”, because, despite the strong local cultural policy, with relevant deeds of its actors and institutions, the Federal Government policy around that time was to cut culture’s budget and encourage private patronage.