CCVM launches the 'Open Horizon', an educational program with exclusive content

The Vale Maranhão Cultural Center launches, this Tuesday (27), at 7 pm, the Horizonte Aberto educational program, designed and developed with the aim of producing materials that promote critical thinking on various current topics. Conducted by the Educational Nucleus of the CCVM, Horizonte Aberto is carried out through research based on a certain concept, which directs the construction of a network of contents that dialogue with each other. “The purpose of the program is to raise awareness of an expanded perception of things from different points of view, creating a favorable horizon for transformation. We aim to guarantee space for cultural productions that are outside what is conventionally imposed as artistic language, and what is demarcated by traditionally legitimizing and authoritarian concepts”, explains Ubiratã Trindade, coordinator of the Educational Nucleus of the CCVM. The program will deal with a specific subject per year, approached in a variety of ways and languages. For 2021, the chosen theme was The origin of things. Thinkers, artists and other professionals were invited to talk about the theme from different fields of knowledge and human experience. In its premiere, Horizonte Aberto will receive the musician and researcher Magda Pucci, debating the origin of indigenous music. “ The direct contact with indigenous musicians in artistic and didactic actions revealed to me the opportunity to create an intercultural dialogue and provide an approximation with cultural contexts that are still invisible to part of the Brazilian population. In the video, I comment on the principles and concepts of the research I carried out, the result of a long process of re-reading and reinterpreting Brazilian indigenous musical traditions connected with the cave images of archaeological sites in Serra da Capivara and Monte Alegre”, says Magda. They join Magda Pucci, rapper Thaíde, anthropologist Pedro Cesarino, actress Glamor Garcia, writer Eliane Potiguara, theater director Zé Celso and hairdresser Rosalina dos Santos Oliveira in the first set of contents produced for the program. In addition to the videos, texts, bibliographic material, workshops, documentaries and the launch of a podcast are also planned.