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AEC-TEA is a community-based association located in Capim Grosso, Bahia, Brazil. We are a group of volunteers working together to organize educational projects and to create a space where people can meet, exchange ideas, discover strengths and talents, gain access to information, have fun, and build friendships.
Named after our town's first teacher, the Tarcilia Evangelista de Andrade Educational-Cultural Association was founded by local students and teachers with the goals of increasing access to higher education and encouraging volunteer work as a means to improve the quality of life in our community. We invite Brazilian and international volunteers to participate in our projects. |
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 AEC-TEA’s youth theater group attracted large audiences for its December performances, as family and friends of the actors as well as members of the community at large came to see the spectacles.
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The final weeks of December were busy at AEC-TEA as students of all types, including language, dance, theater, photography, and more, joined together to celebrate and demonstrate their accomplishments over the second semester as well as to bid farewell to international volunteers. 2009 was marked by a more diversified course offer, with photography, computation, ballet and theater classes being added along with AEC-TEA’s traditional strength in languages, yoga, and art workshops. |
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At the end of 2009, AEC-TEA was awarded a government grant to study and celebrate Capim Grosso’s myriad cultural and art activities.
The project, known as the “Microprojeto”, will fund local student researchers coordinated by AEC-TEA to seek out and study arts activities in Capim Grosso and the surrounding areas, conducting interviews and writing a report of the results. Activities recorded will include all types of artistic expression, including visual and performing arts as well as music and literature. |
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 AEC-TEA’s photography students showed their work in the Praça Principal in December, in the center of town, capping off a semester of exercises and projects on self and family portraits as well as the city. Nicole, a volunteer from the US teaching photography, mounted family portraits and text from the photography students in the plaza during the day and used a slide projector to show musical slide shows of student work on family portraits and pictures from around the city, including the capoeira school, child care center, city plazas, marketplace, and more. After successful public display that attracted large numbers of visitors, these projects were brought to AEC-TEA to be displayed during the ending ceremony. Also displayed at AEC-TEA was a special gallery of work produced by developmentally challenged youth as part of a project with the local branch of CRAS, a social assistance center.
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