Uma contribuição ao estudo sobre políticas públicas culturais: avaliação do Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste em Fortaleza

Abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste in Fortaleza, while locus of public production, education, enjoyment and dissemination of cultural goods and services as a public policy strategy for promoting the culture of the Northeast Bank. Presents a brief history of public cultural policies in Brazil and Ceará and shows the mission, objectives, operation and performance of the Bank of Northeast Brazil and their cultural centers. Covers concepts of culture, popular culture, cultural circularity, cultural identity and cultural marketing. It seeks to establish baselines and evaluation of public policy to subsidize the systematicity of future evaluation processes. Undertook a brief historical analysis of the process of pregnancy and development of cultural policy under discussion, conducted through a literature review and documentation, and field research with questionnaires to managers, cultural producers and users of the Cultural Center Fortaleza. Data were analyzed using the technique of content analysis and pointed towards a positive assessment of the performance of the Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Fortaleza headquarters and local production, and dissemination of culture through the enjoyment of cultural products and services that meet expectations of managers, cultural producers and users, who consider such a cultural center as a place that, in addition to promoting leisure and entertainment, social and cultural transformations can cause and contribute to regional development by promoting access to culture.