O Sarau Janelas Floridas: a tecitura de um lugar de reexistência com a Escola Pública

Abstract

This research focuses on the experience of the Sarau Janelas Floridas as a practice of confrontation and production of playful re-existence and its trajectory as a form of struggle. Here, the party, the game, the joy are not taken as antagonists to the seriousness and rigor of the struggle for the popular public school and for the invention of ways of knowing, legitimate in the eyes and senses of the children, teachers and other sharers of the researcher’s trajectory. The writing in the first person assumes here the collective dimension of itself, as a space of writing where threads are woven, in the poetics of the relationship with the singular space of a century-old school, stage of so many stories and element of so many struggles. In this process, the exercise of expanding existence in the plots of everyday life with the different inhabitants of this space is also assumed, as the vegetal dimension of life. Plants, flowers, and trees are not settings, but rather close and essential presences for re-existing, which brings the research closer to the vegetal turn, intensified by COVID-19, when plants reclaimed spaces from which they had been brutally removed and once again filled the school space with color and life, where the process of annihilation, promoted by Capital, had already left its trail of destruction. Collectively creating a way to reinvent our existence, resisting in order to re-exist, Sarau began as a collective of people who were committed to heritage and dreams. Taking on the narrative of this movement is a commitment to the past and future of the school. The school community was impacted by a project to dismantle the public educational space to build a project whose goal is to meet the greed of the market. We knew from the beginning that it would be necessary to create inventive forms of resistance and re-existence, since this path was designed to condemn this place of memory, if not by destroying the tractors, but more blatantly by the abandonment to which the physical structure of the space that we fought to transform by decree into the city’s heritage was relegated. In this dialogical composition of the world, the Sarau, which is called Janelas Floridas (Florida Windows), in reference to one of the practices of the school’s founder, has been adding new propositions and purposes. And with each edition, it shows a organization and a trend that is constantly changing, proposing new objectives and establishing itself as a collective school practice, while at the same time denouncing the action plan of Capital, in collusion with the city’s governmental powers.