Seduc stands out at the 28th Pan-Amazonian Book Fair with programming focused on Amazonian culture and sustainability
Book launches by students and teachers, legends, poetry, and exhibitions marked the first day at the Secretary's booth
Students and educators from the State Department of Education (Seduc) were highlights on the first day of the 28th Pan-Amazonian Book Fair and Multivoices, this Saturday (16), with book launches and exhibitions of projects focused on themes such as Amazonian culture, sustainability, and the United Nations Conference on Climate Change 2025 (COP 30), which will be held in the capital of Pará in November.
Recognized as the largest literary fair in Northern Brazil, this year's edition honors master Damasceno, a reference in popular culture, and writer Wanda Monteiro, in addition to reinforcing the commitment to sustainability. Leading the debates on the topic inside and outside the classroom, students and educators from the state network were able to showcase some works developed in the capital and in the interior of the state.
From the municipality of Novo Repartimento, in southeastern Pará, students and teachers from the State School Papa Paulo VI brought culture and art to the Secretary's booth. Students Arthur Carvalho and Thayná Pereira, from the 2nd year of high school, exhibited canvas paintings developed within the project “Encanta Pará” with themes related to the environment and art. Student Kellyany Figueredo, also from the 2nd year of high school, launched the book “Disconnected Souls,” her first poetry work.
For the students, participating in the Book Fair 2025 is an opportunity and a moment of great joy. “I have always liked to write, and this book talks about various types of emotions, various types of feelings. There are 46 poems that I wrote. Participating in the Book Fair is very interesting; it is a very big event, and I never imagined bringing my book to exhibit here. It was something that only stayed in my mind,” said student Kellyany Figueredo.
5th-grade students from the State School Jarbas Passarinho, in Belém, presented the podcast project “Rádio Passarinho,” a pedagogical proposal that aims to integrate educational practices with the use of communication tools to provide a formative experience that combines curricular content with creative expression and student protagonism. For the Fair, the students produced a podcast on topics related to COP 30.
“We needed to do a recomposition of learning to help those students who need to read and write, and I was already working with the Radio School project, so I decided to incorporate the idea into the classroom because this project makes the child have to write, discuss, analyze writing, read to record the programs, that is, by producing the program, all of this is stimulated. We have examples of students who were shyer, who needed to improve more, and with the Radio School project, they developed, gained confidence, and visibly improved their reading,” explained the project's idealizing teacher, Benedito Machado.
For 5th-grade student Ana Luize Rodrigues, who is part of the project, producing the radio program greatly contributed to the class's learning. “I think the project is really cool because it’s different, and I have never done anything like this before. I am improving a lot in my reading, my performance in school, in classes, and I really like recording the content. Being at the Book Fair is something very important and cool because we started just recording at school, and now we are here; I never imagined,” she said.
State teachers also presented their works at the 28th Pan-Amazonian Book Fair and Multivoices. Teacher Paulo Maués, from the Full-Time State School Augusto Meira, in the São Brás neighborhood of Belém, launched the books “The Legend of the Cobra Norato: between the letter and the voice” and “Anhanga, Curupira, and Mapinguari: protectors of nature.” Other works that celebrate regional culture are the books “Tuíra: a boy from the Amazon” and “Coffee, pupunha, and poetry,” both by teacher Gio de Paula, from the State School Professor Maridalva Pantoja, in the Castanheira neighborhood of Belém.
