Special Projects

CPTI, in partnership with a number of private and public organizations, conduct specional projects directed towards the major social issues of the region.

Allegro | Ponto de Cultura | Danca-Ballet | Project Ciranda | Sports

Allegro (Music and Citizenship)
Project Allegro is a music initiative approved by the Ministry of Culture (Rouanet Law) with the aim of developing music skills and capabilities in children and adolescents. In 2008, 200 children and adolescents participated in workshops for guitar, flute, violin, percussion, keyboard, choir and music teaching.

In 2008 about 200 children and teenagers has participated on guitar, flute, violin, percussion, keyboard and choir workshops.
12 presentations were performed in and out of CPTI, watched by a public of among 1200 people. The Project has contributed for social inclusion of the participants and their families through music, besides of developing on young people senses of responsibility, organization, discipline, punctuality and teamwork.

A new music hall at CPTI was opened in December 2008, making it possible to extend the activities in this area for 2009.

Ponto de Cultura - Magic Carpet
In the second half of 2007, CPTI began executing the project Ponto de Cultura, a program of the Federal Government created through the Ministry of Culture.

Participating in the municipal and nacional networks of Pontos de Cultura is to amplify opportunities in culture, arts and digital inclusion for leading children and adolescents to develop their creative potencial, starting from self esteem as a citizenship exercise.

In the year 2008, 500 children and adolescents took advantage of the following workshops: Music, Choir, Sweet Flute, Guitar, Capoeira, Popular Culure, Visual Arts – Painting, Visual Arts – Wood Working, Theater and Newspaper.

CPTI, through the Magic Carpet Project, has participated of the TEIA (National event: Culture, Education, Citizenship, Solidarity Economy), held in Brasília, in October 2008, that reunited every Pontos de Cultura (culture points) of Brazil and a forum to discuss public politcs of this area.

Dance and Citizenship - Ballet
The Dance-Ballet project primarily seeks to provide children and adolescents an attractive activity, specially the dance (classic ballet) that complements their school activities, offering new perspectives for their future and providing cultural inclusion.

A partnership with the Dance and Citizenship Project opens, inside CPTI, a very intersting and educative oportunity for about 100 childrens and teenagers, that besides ballet still participates of other available educative activities.

Project Ciranda – Child Labor Prevention

Child labor violates children’s and teenager’s rights, endangering their physical, emocional and social development. 

According to studies by OIT – Labor International Organization in partership with CENPEC – Center of Studies in Education, Culture and Communitary Action, the effects of child and teenager’s submission to labor situations are perverse and harmful. Happens on physical weakness, on emocional fragility and undermines their social insertion. Particularly, during school life, the bad performance and repetence causes a feeling of guilt, generates a low self esteem, and school abandon, by the unreal belief on the inability to learn, by both the children/teenager and their family. “If it’s not good for the studies, then drop off school and go to work”. Inside this context, Child Labor becomes a seductive alternative.

Preventing and fighting Child Labor developing a process that is articulated with the child and teenager’s protection network, for a period of 18 months, in a purpous of social-educative and social-familiar actions with the juvenile vulnerable population, protecting then from labor situations and with their families, making possible their capacitation and inclusion on income generation alternatives, making possible to break the vicious circle of structural poverty that feeds child labor situations. Activities will happen through pedagogy, cultural, sports and social projects, contributing to the personal, Professional and community developoment of 520 children and teenagers, 150 families and 8.500 members of community.

Sports - Moviment and Citizenship

The goal of sports activities is to contribute to the well-rounded development of children and adolescents through an active environment, promoting a culture of daily exercise and sports training.