Unhate Foundation Report
Survival Guides
Projeto Quixote
October 2012
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
1.
Presentation:
This Survival Guides project is a partnership of Projeto Quixote and Unhate
Foundation, that has as its objective to create a Survival Guide for street children
based on the experiences of children and adolescents attended by Projeto Quixote in a
workshop with Patrick Waterhouse, Auro Lescher, artists from Projeto Quixote and
each child reference educator. By doing workshops with them with themes like
photography illustration, storytelling and interviewing, the children were empowered
to share their knowledge of life on the street, the things they can and can't do, the
challenges they face and the ways they overcome them. By making the children the
authors of a survival guide for outsiders, the workshops gave them a voice to introduce
themselves to the world.
The group was formed with adolescents that live or had lived sometime in life
in the street, and with adolescents in social risk situation, or living any kind of social
vulnerability, that has not lived necessarily on the streets. That created a
heterogeneous group, with kids with different experiences.
2. Activities
Main activity
Workshop with Patrick Watehouse from Colours Magazine, between October
18 and 23, with support of Projeto Quixote founder, Auro Lescher, the artists already
working in Projeto Quixote and the reference educators of each child. The children and
adolescent did their Survival Guides in those workshops. The idea of the survival guide
was that each child would create a notebook telling what it’s necessary, according to
their experience, to survive in São Paulo. Objects, food, pictures of important places.
Where to eat? Where to hide? Where not pass by? How to make your bed to sleep in
the streets? What to do when you miss someone? How to comunicate?
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
Camp:
The team of Projeto Quixote decided it was important to live together with
some of those adolescents full time during the artistic residency, so it could make the
changes in a stronger way and could be a real part of their “rematriamento” (that
means, take the kids back to their home communities) process. Because of that, it was
organized in Vila Mariana Headquarters of Projeto Quixote a camp.
During a week, 11 kids and adolescents took part of this camp: they slept, ate,
did activities and their survival guides at Projeto Quixote. Other 14 children and
adolescent also took part of the process through the workshops.
Other Activities:
The workshops with Patrick happened in the afternoons, between 2PM and
4PM. The kids that were in the camp had their mornings and nights free. To fill this
time, the teachers of Projeto Quixote made some workshops, listed below.
- Capoeira Workshop
- Visit to Aclimação Park
- Sports Workshop
- Workshop Break
- Graffiti Workshop
- Percussion Workshop
- Video Workshop
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
3. Challenges
The project was part of the “rematriamento” process of the kids and
adolescents in street situation. Rematriamento means taking the kids back to their
home communities, taking them off the streets and taking them to their parents house
or to a shelter.
All those kids are attendees of Projeto Quixote for some time, of Vila Mariana
Headquarters or Republica Headquarters. So, they already had trust bonds with our
team.
One of the prettiest and hardest parts of this project was to create
acquaintanceship between the different children attended, the ones of Vila Mariana
(in social risk situation or living in shelters) and the ones of República (in street
situation). This was really good, because it has turned possible the exchange of
experiences, the reflection in both groups and between the children, opening new
ways of working, beyond the survival guides.
We believe that this experience created an opportunity of improving the
integration and the communication between our teachers, improving our processes
and ways of working.
4. Results:
At the end of the project, the Survival Guides made by the adolescents and
some photos taken in the process were exhibit at DOC Galeria, an art gallery in the Vila
Madalena neighborhood. This made to kids work even more valuable. Their Survival
Guides were also exhibited in an itinerant projection in Paulista Avenue, one of the
most important streets in São Paulo.
25 children and adolescent took part of this workshop and have lived this
artistic experience in a way that they could be the protagonists of their own stories.
They were able to exhibit their work like real artists in reputed and prestigious places
of the city of São Paulo.
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
This exhibition was also an opportunity to give voice to the youth and valorize
their life experiences.
Kids in the Doc Galeria
Kids in the Doc Galeria
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
Cristina and Patrick at the vernissage
Quixote’s and Unhate’s team at the vernissage
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
Itinerant projection in Paulista Avenue
Itinerant projection in Paulista Avenue
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
Itinerant projection in Paulista Avenue
Itinerant projection in Paulista Avenue
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
Two months have passed by since the event. Of the 11 attendees that are part
of the Urban Refugees Program (which has a special care for the children in street
situation), 3 were returned to their homes, 5 to the institutional care, and 3 are still in
the streets. We kept working with the specific questions of each case, offering
treatment and attendance of our interdisciplinary team and using the treatment
network of their region and of the region where they are living (with their families or in
shelters). This event contributed to strengthen the already existing ties and beginning
new ones. The Survival Guides Project is still present in our daily work, because more
children in street situation started to attend the Vila Mariana Headquarters.
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
Some repercussions in the media
http://catracalivre.folha.uol.com.br/2012/10/arte-como-ferramenta-de-inclusao-social-e-a-propostade-sao-paulo-survival-guides/
http://g1.globo.com/sao-paulo/noticia/2012/10/jovens-carentes-apresentam-kits-desobrevivencia-em-exposicao-em-sp.html
http://bestyle.com.br/cult/2012/10/sp-manuais-de-sobrevivencia
http://www.dcomercio.com.br/index.php/3-setores/sub-3-setor/98686-em-exposicao-a-arte-das-ruas
Jornal “O Estado de São Paulo” -Caderno Metropole -27/10/12 “Go to Paulista Avenue tonight? Look
for art in the building?
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]
Some Statements
“To be part of this story was a great privilege and learning to me. It went
beyond understanding or identifying the needs of people in social vulnerability. It was a
learning experience that made us go out of our comfort zone and start thinking of news
ways of working together. This project not only about building a Survival Guide in São
Paulo, but also building new stories, new possibilities of attendance of children and
adolescents in social risk situation, building new ways of looking to this question,
movements, speeches, expressions.” Cleber - Sports Educator
“This month can be defined in one word: intensity. Intensity of our work, of our
emotions, of our feelings - anger, angst, fear, victory, happiness, achievements,
frustration and mainly learning. It was also a Survival Guide of the educators”
Claudia, educator of Urban Refugees Program"
"A single, fundamental objective binds us all together, Projeto
Quixote, UNHATE Foundation, children, teachers, artists, coordinators: the
desire to try to understand our own story, our own identity, and at the
same time, to transform it, creating new stories, stories about meeting
ourselves, our bodies, our homes, our origins and our dreams…"
Auro Lescher, founder of Project Quixote
Projeto Quixote
AAPQ – Associação de Apoio ao Projeto Quixote
Av. Eng. Luís Gomes Cardim Sangirardi, 789 - Vila Mariana – 04112-080 – São Paulo/SP
Telefone: 11 5083-0449 / 11 5572-8433
Site: www.projetoquixote.org.br E-mail: [email protected]