Cultural action of reading mediation in riverside communities in the state of Amazonas: experience report of Expedição Barco Biblioteca

Abstract

It reports the experience of a voluntary project carried out in the riverside communities of the metropolitan area of the city of Manaus. The State of Amazonas occupies the largest Brazilian territorial space and has the particularity of access to many of its municipalities through the rivers, therefore, fluvial transportation is the main means of transportation to these places. It is a cultural action focused on promoting the habit of reading, access to the book and environmental awareness as a tool to build critical citizens and responsible for the environment in which they inhabit. It addresses aspects of volunteer activity development, the role of the librarian as a social entrepreneur and seeks to draw some reflections on the ability to act in vulnerable communities and the importance of presenting reading as a habit, creative elements and innovation that can and should be inserted in context. Playful activities are performed such as storytelling, individual reading, theatricalisation and musicalization of the story. Such activity presents itself as an empirically effective cultural action, insofar as it is offered as a non-formal learning experience. Finally, it encourages more librarians to be able to perform people-oriented and life-changing activities, and then describes the systematic so that it can be replicated.