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Texturas, ou sobre os efeitos sociais das artes

2015; University of Porto; Volume: 30; Linguagem: Inglês

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Sara Melo,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

This article aims to contribute to the questioning and critical discussion around the cultural participation and the social effects of arts, with the background of a community intervention project – Texturas - developed under the Santa Maria da Feira’s International Festival of Street Theatre. The research that underlies it sought to understand the meaning given to the experience by individuals, socially and culturally distant from the art world. It is concluded that the artistic participation has generated a set of transformative (and positive) consequences in the lives of the protagonists.