Hey guys, I am back from the symposium, it was great !! The first day was kinda meh to be honest, the only thing I liked was a lecture about the Middle East refugees in Brazil and what the libraries can do to help them to live in a new country. Of course, there were people who didn't like a bit, saying that every muslim is a terrorist.
The second day was better, as one of panels in exposition was about a school's effort to stimulate reading, and make the older students official readers to the younger students.
People liked, but later one, the school brought the students to the symposium, and they read to the grown-ups, but no one talked to me, so I was curious and asked a little girl if she wanted to read for me.
- Surprised, she said. "WOW..You speak portuguese ?"
- I said "Of course I do, I am brazilian"
- She said "We thought you were a foreigner, you don´t look like a brazilian".
….Ahh kids :)
The only bad thing was a lecture of a writer who said that the internet (FB, Twitter and WhatsAPP) is a bad thing, because it ruins the act of writing and reading...meh :/
Also, I was really surprised to see that the "Geladeiroteca" is a thing nowadays, another thing I liked was a NGO project to make inmates pottencial readers and also, writers. And to end, a public library hired a group of actors to so they could make "poetic mailmen", as they go from door to door to give letters with poems inside and a invitation to go to the library.
Pretty awesome..
EDIT: I forgot to post this, sorry.
There was a school project in the symposium, that one was in a Minas Gerais, and the project was about "Introduce japanese culture to people who visits the library", I saw the panel and for the most part, it was fine, until I saw the last slide, it was a picture of a table in the library, on top of the table were Origamis, Katanas, Maneki-Nekos and a Mario mushroom plush..