The development of workshops associating music to education and health in northeastern Brazil

Abstract

From 2011 to 2014 Fiocruz celebrates the centenary of the expeditions of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute to the sertões do Brasil (1911-1913), when Carlos Chagas, Belizário Pena and others described the health situation in deep poverty spots of the time. The Pernambuco Expedition, which had the theme "Culture for overcoming poverty with health, science and education", had two activities: the Holiday Course and the Forum for integration with art and citizenship for culture with health, science and education . The course of vacations happened from January 23 to 27, 2012, with 40 hours, in Paudalho, a municipality in the interior of Pernambuco. In this context, a workshop was held entitled "Science and Health through Music", which lasted for 3 hours. In addition to the holiday course, four workshops were developed, with the same title and in the same period, with two hours each. The workshops provided 20 vacancies and all of them were filled. Two workshops were offered to city teachers, one to students and one to health workers. The activities were carried out using a multimedia projector, personal computer, slide presentation containing the lyrics of the songs that were listened to and discussed, sound equipment, and CDs of Brazilian popular music. The five workshops were evaluated orally by participants at the end of the course. The recordings of the evaluations were made with the consent of the participants and was done through the recorder of the smartphone iPhone 3GS, Apple Inc. The participants were very happy, excited and even excited about the work done. The offer of workshops, interaction with friends and colleagues who participated in the work, as well as contact with the welcoming people of a city like Paudalho, make us wait for opportunities for new scientific expeditions.