COVID-19 AND PUBLIC POLICIES FOR CULTURE AND THE ARTS AN INSIGHT FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Abstract

This work consists of research of the cultural public policies in the Brazilian northeast during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a special focus on the municipality of Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte between March 2020 and march 2022. The main objective of this study is to identify the actions of the public power via public tenders, and to analyze their strategies to support the population of Rio Grande do Norte that produces culture and art as a form of living. The methodology is based on qualitative approaches such as bibliographic research, secondary data collection and mapping of public tenders on government platforms and social networks. The emergence of this research is oriented towards the importance of the public power in offering answers to culture producers who had their activities interrupted because of the Coronavirus. The results indicate that the State’s emergency measures made possible the maintenance of the actions of culture and art, being the Lei Aldir Branco [Aldir Blanc Law] an important achievement of the cultural sector.