Grupo Tons de Vida: teatro como promoção de saúde mental durante a pandemia

Abstract

This final paper work has as main objective, the organization and analysis of the experience and the learning that I had during the two years that I participated in the extension project entitled “Group Tones of Life: artistic workshops, popular theater and mental health in city from the Center for Living and Culture of Natal/RN”. This activity was developed during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021) and, despite the challenges of remote teaching and later, the return to face-to-face teaching in compliance with security protocols, it allowed me to understand as a “teacher-artist”, the importance of art, more specifically of theater, in promoting physical and mental health and strengthening autonomy in individuals who have some type of psychic disability.