Community-Based Cultural Accessibility

Challenges for the Cultura Viva Program

Abstract

Although the right to culture is present in our constitution formulated in 1988, it is observed that in the last fifteen years the agenda of cultural citizenship of people with disabilities has challenged public cultural policies to implement this right, in an emancipatory and anti-ableism way. With the country's democratization process, progressive public administrations from the Brazilian left field, in the early 90s, also advanced in the processes of cultural democratization.As a result, over time, although with a period of regression on the agenda, there is the emergence of community-based cultural policies, citizenship and cultural diversity. This article aims to reflect on the context of the cultural accessibility agenda for people with disabilities. We discuss here initiatives to qualify the cultural rights agenda of this population, as well as strategies to commit different agents in the field of culture to qualifying the cultural capital of people with disabilities. The partnership between the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ and the Ministry of Culture - MINC, between 2013 and 2019, stands out, based on the vacancies offered to Pontos de Cultura in the Specialization Course in Cultural Accessibility - CEAC and other actions in actions to raise awareness of these community-based initiatives in the cultural citizenship agenda of people with disabilities.The historical process of exclusion, invisibility and prejudice are still barriers to be faced. It is also verified that the sociocultural condition of the population with disabilities in Brazil and around the world presents itself as a significant issue, with a view to the objective of promoting sustainable development.It was concluded that community-based cultural initiatives are fundamental for promoting the cultural citizenship of people with disabilities and those in social vulnerability. In this way, the importance of the Cultura Viva Program and its strong commitment to the social challenges foreseen in the 2030 Agenda stand out, which involves updating the agenda of cultural citizenship for people with disabilities from an anti-disability perspective.