Public Policies and Performing Arts in the Land Of Poets: implementation of the Laws Aldir Blanc I, Paulo Gustavo and PNAB in Capivari (SP)

Abstract

This study analyzes the implementation of the Aldir Blanc I Law, the Paulo Gustavo Law, and the National Aldir Blanc Policy in the municipality of Capivari, in inner São Paulo, focusing on the performing arts sector and the impact of these cultural funding policies on Cia Ui de Teatro, a theater company that has been active in the municipality for nearly two decades. This qualitative and documentary research investigates how these cultural public policies were appropriated, managed, and executed in a municipality known as the “Land of Poets.” This study seeks to understand, through the lens of authors such as Tolila (2007), Rolim; Massa (2023), and Costa (2007), the impacts of these emergency legislations on local cultural agents, highlighting challenges, mechanisms of social participation, and their practical effects on the performing arts production chain. This analysis also proposes reflections on the effectiveness of these policies in municipal contexts and their contribution to decentralizing access to cultural resources.