Captação de recursos em projetos culturais: um estudo de editais municipais de Maceió

Abstract

The Brazilian cultural market is extremely busy, generates income, and employs millions of people in the country. The state of Alagoas is rich in culture and has several forms of cultural expression and this cultural action is marked by the execution of projects. For this, it needs resources to make them viable. One of the ways known and widely accessed by cultural agents are the public funding edicts. In the city of Maceió, the Municipal Foundation for Cultural Action - FMAC is responsible for publishing these calls for proposals in which proponents can compete in their respective areas of activity in order to realize their projects. This work aimed to analyze the scenario of raising these funds, through the edicts proposed by FMAC in 2019. To this end, there was, initially, a survey of the calls for proposals published that year. The analysis of the content of these calls for proposals sought to identify issues such as the focus, the origin of the funds, the conditions of participation, and the funds offered. For a detailed analysis, one of these public notices was chosen, named "Natal dos Folguedos". The detailed conditions were described and from there, it was possible to interview two cultural producers/artists contemplated in this edital to understand the logic of participation from the proposing artist's point of view. The difference in experiences in proposing projects for edicts proved interesting in analytical terms. The result showed that, in objective terms, it is not difficult for an artist to participate in funding edicts. However, the lack of knowledge and practice in accessing them may constitute obstacles to this form of financing. The various theoretical elements discussed in the area of projects have shown to be relevant to the practice of cultural projects. Thus, the importance of preparing cultural producers to manage their projects is evidenced, mainly by the possibility of guaranteeing the artist a space for the development of his identity and authorial autonomy.