Quixeramobim Institute for Historical, Cultural, and Natural Heritage (IPHANAQ), Ceará State
Living Factory: Workers’ Culture and Social Experience
Ceará
This nongovernmental organization works with culture through training and the production of records (CDs, books, videos, and exhibits). Beyond entertainment, the project’s concept and work play out in the field of culture and daily life, in the web of sociability in which social actors participate.
The Institute is currently implementing the IPHANAQ Film Club project, showing films in the communities followed by debates on the local realities, including the various villages and townships of Quixeramobim.
In February 2009, IPHANAQ was awarded the Living Heritage Project through a call for proposals for Cultural Hubs issued by the Ceará State Department of Culture (SECULT).
Through this project, the organization works with cultural heritage based on videos and photographs of historically beloved people and buildings of Quixeramobim.
The initiative stemmed from previous action by the group to prevent the demolition of historical buildings and, in a broader sense, to create and demand the functioning of the Municipal Council on Culture and Tourism.
The Project
The aim of the project “Living Factory: Workers’ Culture and Social Experience” is to fight the gross labor exploitation of men and women subject to underemployment at Aniger, a shoe factory from the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul that produces Nike footwear in Brazil, installed in Quixeramobim, in the hinterlands of Ceará State, besides fighting institutional violence by the local government.
Various actions will be proposed, based on collective, open screenings of films with themes related to the company workers’ experiences.
The film screenings will include interviews, photographs, and videos shown in the communities, thereby highlighting workers’ demands in the media and filing class action suits.
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Annual Call for Proposals
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