All year is Carnaval
Status
ongoingCity
Montevideo
Main actors
Local Government, NGO / Philanthropy
Project area
Whole City/Administrative Region
Duration
Ongoing since 2018
Providing cultural opportunities to adolescents deprived of their liberty.
Launched in 2018, "Todo el año es carnaval" (All year is Carnaval), is an annual program administered by the Municipality of Montevideo through the Secretariat of Education for Citizenship. The program involves artistic and creative workshops using two themes from Uruguayan Carnaval: Candombe (music) and Murga (music-theatre). The workshops focus on specific cultural topics and values and provides engagement and inclusion opportunities. Participants can develop a sense of belonging by learning from the cultural history of Uruguay.
- Create, through music and theatre, a specific socio-cultural space in a contained environment, with young people being the protagonists of their own experience.
- Work with Candombe as a musical genre, as an integrating expression and an example of teamwork.
- To bring young people and adolescents closer to the historical roots of Candombe and Carnaval in general.
- Using the creative expression of Murga with adolescents in terms of singing, acting, percussion and make-up.
The program is financed entirely with resources from the Secretariat of Education for Citizenship including the participation of its own technical team. Additionally, it involves the participation of staff from the contracted NGO, Cuareim 1080 Cultural Association.
One challenge is to confront the institutional logics of the confinement context, which make it difficult to open up to external proposals and work teams from other institutions. It was also necessary to confront preconceptions about what the deprivation of liberty implies and the activities that are assigned to this population in this process. The promotion of cultural rights, access to leisure and recreational activities and free expression are not common within the framework of the adolescent penal system.
http://montevideo.gub.uy/noticias/educacion/en-clave-de-convivencia