Juventude, arte e poesia: a constituição histórica do CRIA – Centro de Referência Integral de Adolescentes

Abstract

This research was used in Method History (arch-genealogy), to learn the meanings of teaching practices and proposals offered to young people who are integrated into programs and / or educational projects in a non-school institution. The empirical field was the CRIA – Centro de Referência Integral de Adolescentes, an NGO working since 1994 with artistic training for young people 10-18 years of age in the city of Salvador. The procedures for doing file were executed by means of descriptive exercises, taking as reference documents, records of interviews, ethnographic observations and diaries made ​​over a year, with the activities of NGOs in the arts practiced. These exercises reinforced a narrative text in which CRIA is understood as an institution that exists from historicities local, regional and individual asserting the claim that educating through art is an argument that extends the meaning of life and puts, adolescents and young given the need to forge himself in relation to culture and the present. The education activities undertaken by NGOs have a handy reference of the city, theatrical experimentation, clown and poetry; implementation of policies of art and culture in the context of formal education and community which young people are linked.