READING CLUB: STORYTELLING AND ARTISTIC AND LITERARY PERFORMANCES OF THE ELDERLY (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The third age is a phase of human life full of specifics. Elderly people tend to live with the limitations of body and mind and, with the social distance imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, a disease caused by the Coronavirus (SARSCOV II), these limitations have become more evident. In order to keep the students of the Open University of the Third Age (UATI) of the State University of Bahia (UNEB) active during this period, the Reading Club Extension project was created: storytelling and artistic and literary performances of the third age, with the objective of promoting reading actions, poetic encounters and reading mediation. In order to report this experience, we used a descriptive approach, aiming to understand the methodological design used to promote the club's meetings, which was the technological mediation through digital platforms and messaging applications in which participants interacted in synchronous, weekly and asynchronous meetings, at pre-established times. As a theoretical framework, we will approach the reading and storytelling practices (OLIVEIRA, 2014; SOARES, 2015) and the literary performances (CARVALHO, 2009) of the club's participants. The results showed that the club's participants acquired new learnings, especially regarding the use of digital technologies, in addition to remaining active and participatory during the project.