Playful Art in Health Promotion in the Pandemic Context: a
research with artists and teachers
Popular education in health. - Playfull Art. - Education
This study analyzes and reports the experience of Playful Art in Health Promotion in the Pandemic Context, and its contribution to popular health education. Based on Paulo Freire's legacy, we clearly understand the need to combat the various forms of domination, economic and cultural. We question colonizing practices and values, which established their continent as the center, and other territories and peoples as peripheral. They developed the hierarchization of peoples and classes. During fieldwork, we shared ancestral knowledge of Arte Brincante through dialogue and its practices, through the culture circle methodology in order to contribute to scientific knowledge about practices in art, culture, health and education in the territories, demonstrating possibilities for discussion, updating of art-education activities with the community. Our approach was to treat art and play as a SULeador axis in the exchange of knowledge, highlighting them as basic for raising awareness of educational practices as they are fundamental as languages of interaction with the world. When we get to know Paulo Freire's work, we observe that it is possible to deal with the theme of traditional knowledge, playing, art, health and orally transmitted learning, related to structuring contents of our society, such as racism, capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy. Bell hooks, African-American feminist, also promoted the approximation of Freire's thought in feminist movements. From this perspective, we use Freire and hooks as references, as they are fundamental to our considerations.