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CAJU Forum debates the relevance of artistic activity in society

The meeting aims to promote mental health among youth in Salvador.

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Art, everyday life and (re)existences: do it yourself. With this theme, the VI CASHEW Forum This year brought discussions about culture and how Bahian artists are using their work to fight for social causes. The meeting, conceived by the Center for Attention to Youth (CAJU), took place on August 29, at Campus Cabula da Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública.

The forum started with the sound of the music video “Emicida – AmarElo (Sample: Belchior – Sujeito de Sorte) part. Majur e Pabllo Vittar”, which opened for a reflection on how the Brazilian artistic scene influences the population's struggle for survival. The event coordinator and Psychology professor at Bahiana, Fábio Giórgio, explained why talking about art is important in today's society: “We are experiencing many setbacks in the political situation in Brazil, and culture and art are essential to motivate us and help us to express what we feel. All of this is a way of fighting, existing and resisting, as is the proposal of our forum this year”.
 

      
The People Development Coordinator, Luiza Ribeiro, attended the opening of the VI CAJU Forum and spoke about the importance of studying and learning: “As a pedagogue of Bahiana, I realize this interaction between health and education, and these young people who are here are the future of our country and they need, more and more, to understand how education is the main tool for social transformation”.

personal speakers contemplated the meeting schedule. The doctoral student in Linguistics, from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), and content creator Lorena Ribeiro presented her literary project “Passos entre Linhas” and explained how her social work is constituted through literature: “It is very gratifying to participate in this event , as this space is an opportunity to talk about black writers and writers, which is one of my lines of work and discuss how the representation of black culture is essential in academic and artistic environments in Salvador”.
 

     
The educational wealth of the forum's debate table was immense. The writer and teacher from Bahia Anderson Shon, known as “The Chronic Poet”, told the public about his trajectory and experience with independent art and declaimed his poetry “We deserve much more”, in which he expresses how young people need to be valued and have their rights respected as citizens. The debate table also had the participation of poet, actor and social educator Carlos Santos Luz, who shared how art is a philosophy of life and needs to escape limitations and expand with a focus on adding the persity present in society.

After the round of debates, the Sem Limites group performed a musical and theatrical performance on social inequality, racism and sexism in Brazil. Guests, as members of the Network of Protagonists in Action of Itapagipe (REPROTAI), young apprentices from Bahiana and public school students attended the sixth edition of the CAJU forum. Student Paulo Araújo, a first-year student at Colégio Estadual Governador Roberto Santos, shared his vision of the meeting: “I really enjoyed everything I watched here today. The artistic presentation and the conversation about literature made me reflect a lot about the world I live in”.
 

      
personal students of Bahiana participated in the organization of the event. The fourth semester student in Psychology, Antônio Weber, reported how this meeting adds to his academic and professional training. “It is very significant to be an organizer in a forum like this one, because here the young person really has a place to speak in the construction of the entire project and this is aggrandizing”.

The meeting continued with fanzine, theater of the oppressed, graffiti and silkscreen workshops. The workshops aimed at the artistic development of young people, through the creation of democratic and inclusive works. Teacher and art educator Ives Quaglia, who taught the screen printing class, also exhibited his musical instruments during the day. At the end of the event, the young people painted a charming mural that precisely defined the essence of the VI CAJU Forum: a cultural movement in which each one made his own art as a form of resistance.
 


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