ARTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: INTERSECTIONS AND DYNAMICS OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Objective : The objective of this study aims to reflect on an organized set of synergies that contribute to an effective artistic-environmental dialogue: the aim of this interdisciplinary dialogue is to promote a balanced, conscious and informed plan of environmental education, mediated by art. In this specific case, the promotion of artistic and cultural events becomes a subsidiary of agents' ecological awareness and consequently acts as a force capable of mobilizing and raising awareness among current and future generations of the central causes and issues of contemporary society, precisely, those that relate to the “common home”. Theoretical Framework : We have put together a tripartite theoretical framework in which ethical, aesthetic and artistic issues are related from a dialogical perspective between art and the environment and their respective impacts in terms of intervention in the community and with the community. Method : Narrative literature review, seeking to describe or discuss the current state of the research topic and, in particular, to draw conclusions for the results and discussion of the effects and impacts of the practices resulting from this initiative that covers a significant and broad generational framework (from early childhood to old age), applying the same model and method. In this case, the MILMESA Method and the DEP Model. Results and Discussion : The main results emerge as the conclusion of a concrete analysis of the reality observed and the theoretical matrices that underpinned the model and method used. These results are important for future reflection, in

2 institutions in general, including institutions with more plural and diverse missions in terms of formal, non-formal and informal education.
Implicaciones de la investigación: En el futuro, hay ciertas consideraciones que pueden ser reflexionadas y mejoradas, a partir de la estructura y base conceptual emanada de los autores (y obras) de referencia que abordan el tema en debate y la reflexión intergeneracional.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION
This practice and intervention matrix arises from the direct and institutional action of the association MUNDIS -Associação Cívica de Formação e Cultura , whose scope of action falls essentially within the Lusophone spectrum and in the domain of the Portuguese language (CPLP and PALOP).To intervene and reflect on this same intervention, since 2017, a civicbased artistic-cultural intervention policy has been developed, promoting and stimulating international meetings that discuss, reflect and envisage future activities within the scope of Art's relations with others areas of knowledge, not only in the domain of arts, but also, and above all, in the domain of inter-areas ( Leonido et al ., 2018( Leonido et al ., , 2019)).In other words, intervening in areas outside the conceptual spectrum of the arts through the joining, support or complementation carried out from the same arts.Thus, the meaning and intervention matrix of two important centers (MILMESA and DEP) are built that bring together, reflect and conclude on interdisciplinary practices in the field of arts education ( Leonido , 2022;Leonido et  4 2023; Leonido et al ., 2024).In this case, the regular and renewed sequence of holding 20 international art research symposiums, which we list below, in order to be able to assess their relationship, dimension and impact at the level of the institutions that engage in dialogue and, essentially, on the impact they have on the formation and extension of these investigative activities in society ( Gablik , 1991;Allen, 1995;Wilson, 2002;Malina, 2003;Smith, 2012;Pereira & Silva, 2018).In the Portuguese-Brazilian context, this is called community extension or simply extension activity.Fundamental and important pillar of the relationship between higher education institutions and society in general.This transfer, dialogue and complementarity are, in our opinion, a demand that has marked and will mark the future of relations between HEIs and the society that, on the one hand, depends on them and, on the other, which from them reinvents, dynamizes and is renewed in all its breadth and mission to create a society that is more just, more informed and more capable of facing and resolving the most pressing issues it faces ( Papanek , 1984;Boetzkes , 2010;Kagan , 2011;Berleant , 2012 ;Miles, 2014;Oliveira, 2019;

STATE OF THE ART
In this context, and in this domain, there are some reference works, of which we highlight the following vectors : 1. integration between environmental education and art in primary schools (Silva, 2010); 2. use of artistic expression to promote environmental education ( Stokrocki , 2004;Ribeiro, 2015); 3. creative approaches to environmental education through art ( Inwood & Taylor, 2012); 4. intersection between artistic education and environmental awareness ( Ulbricht , 2003); 5. Other models and studies that converge education and environmental awareness into one background eco-artistic perspective ( Wallen , 2012;Weintraub , 2012;Santos, 2020;Teixeira & Carvalho, 2021).This and other models and approaches must, for this purpose, be adjusted to the reality in which we carry out the activity, but, due to the differences and the partial inadequacy of many of them to this same reality, over two decades we have developed tools (models and methods) that help us maintain, reflect and envisage changes (and adaptations) to the holding of events of this type, genre and mission.
They are MILMESA (Interdisciplinary Method of Musical Literacy, Education and Artistic Awareness) and DEP (Proximal Expressive Didactics): which bring together the two universes of intervention of the mother association in promoting events that, above all, foresee intervention, such as previously referred to, in the field and domain of art and education through art.

FRAMEWORK, OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMMING OF THE ACTIVITY
Within the framework of this investigation, we highlight one of the SIIA, given the theme and the impact demonstrated in terms of community outreach and the relationship and interaction with the various local, regional, national and international interlocutors.This event (XIII SIIA), given its demand, size and breadth of its mission, had to take place on two consecutive days and, when necessary, in a semi-presential format (broadcast on a dedicated website).Thus, on the 8th and 9th of June 2022,     10 The morning of the second day of the XIII SIIA took place, in an extraordinary way, with a workshop carried out by a Guarani Indian named Heloan Patrick .Action aimed at children and schools.We call this activity "The indigenous experience and its relationship with the environment".It was wanted that contact and awareness of experiences, knowledge of traditions and the preservation of their values and attitudes could, this time, be approached and welcomed by younger people.

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Workshop -The indigenous experience and its relationship with the environment Source: Own then showed the documentary "The Secret Garden" on the AEUVR screens .Design and Genesis Processes" by Ângela Cardoso (teacher at UTAD).With the purpose and intention of publicizing the artist and teacher's approach to the relationship between art and botany, painting, drawing and the interdisciplinary complicity of both.
In the afternoon, we were treated to another lecture / PRAYER OF SAPIENCE entitled "The dimensions of the sound environment from the listener's listening point" by Marcelo Petraglia from Instituto OuvirAtivo -IOA/Faculdade Rudolf Steiner (Brazil).
The two lectures bring together two world-renowned experts in the field of sound ecology and dimensions of the sound environment: Leonardo Fuks and Marcelo Petraglia .Next , we presented the communications/presentations, whose titles, authors and institutions, we now list: Table 3 Communications, authors, institutions and countries In order to materialize not only the concept, but also the art from a contemporary extramusical point of view within the scope of sound performance, we have the CONCERTO PERFORMANCE "HÁ-SOM" by the Sound Sculptor João Ricardo Barros de Oliveira.Expressive Didactics ( Leonido et al , 2022).Therefore, with particular emphasis on the size of the 10 fundamental points of your presentation.Finally, as in other event organizations, we apply a SWOT analysis adapted to this dimension, taking into account the strengths, weaker points, threats, opportunities and a conclusion that is based on recommendations for improvement for the future.

ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
Finally, and in a simplistic view of what can be considered a SWOT Analysis adapted to this context, we would like to share a structured reflection on the following topics, taking into account that the present investigation is an adapted, expanded and commented version of a broader work under the theme "ALTER IBI -Environmental Education projects".

Table 5
Adapted SWOT analysis

Opportunities
Deepen the model and matrix in other areas that focus on health and physical and psychological well-being through the arts.

Threats
The lack of availability at the organizational level that does not depend on certification or academic and school space.

Improvement proposals
Deeper involvement of other generations and institutions, as well as places and themes that emerge in an innovative, captivating and pleasurable way for participants and key interlocutors.
Strengthen the triad of art, education and territory.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
We conclude that, by maintaining the inherent activity and relationship in other domains, activity focusing on art can and should be considered as preponderant and decisive in the artistic and educational plan as a whole.Artistic education is a fundamental pillar to strengthen the taste for art, creating new audiences interested in art and the various disciplines or areas that are directly (or indirectly) related to it.For the future, in organizational terms, we tend to focus on health and well-being in relation to art, because, through this and other reflections, we verify the existence of this need that, as we know, crosses generations, interests and desires by the participants and interlocutors of this type of artistic-cultural activities of a broadly educational nature 11 .
Finally, we highlight not only the participation, support and dissemination of the event by the institutions and personalities involved in this event and, in particular, the support and welcoming provided by the technical team of the Urban Ecology Agency, under the direction of Dr. .Mafalda Vaz de Carvalho.
7 the XIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF RESEARCH IN ART took place (in a semi-attendance format) 8 , under the theme "ART & ___________________________________________________________________________ Rev. Gest.Soc.Ambient.| Miami | v.18.n.8 | p.1-18 | e08428 | 2024.6ENVIRONMENT", at the Urban Ecology Agency of Vila Real and at the Regional Music Conservatory of Vila Real, with the participation of guest speakers, artists and activists from various continents, with particular emphasis on initiatives and projects from the Portuguesespeaking world.The objective of this initiative was, in addition to promoting intercultural dialogue, to stimulate the artistic dialogue of Portuguese-speaking peoples in the uncompromising defense of culture in the Portuguese language, carrying out an organized set of initiatives that integrated a plurality of audiences and school stages.Thus, activities were promoted aimed at students from the 1st and 2nd cycles, as well as jazz activities for a more adult and (possibly) more informed audience, always with a "culture of return" perspective , which was at the basis of the achievement of the project supported by DGARTES called "JAZZ IN DOURO" (Orquestra e Jazz do Douro).This project, in a cycle of 10 concerts integrated into the programs of artisticcultural institutions spread across the region in which the collection took place (from the source to the mouth of the Douro River), "returned" the ethnomusicological collection carried out more than two decades ago, within the scope of the INTERREG III A Program "DOURO / DUERO XXI Century -Use and Valorization of Resources".The XIII SIIA, and this activity in particular, is the result of ongoing work involving works within the artistic-cultural area of the environmental spectrum, part of a dynamic of environmentally sustainable territorial intervention.In this case, we added to the chapter, part of an initiative carried out in this same place 9 (DOURO ARPEGGIO), in which, along with another repertoire, we were treated to an interpretation of the theme "Visita" (Poem by Miguel Torga) initially set to music, in 1997, byLevi Leonido , integrated  in the Work "Crescer com Miguel Torga" (EDISCO Editions on CD), and which is now adapted to the Project "TORGA MUNDIS -A DESCONSTRUAÇÃO" (Supported by the GARANTIR CULTURA Program) with a version revisited by the hand by Composer and Conductor Valter Palma, performed by the DOURO ARPEGGIO trio.

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Figure 1 and 2 Douro Arpeggio

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Figure 3Images of Speakers and Organization

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Figure 4 and 5 Public Work Session -Rosa do Mundo Project

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Figure 7Workshop -Music is made from trash

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"The materialization of art in the environment" by Antônia Rosa, Elsa Morgado & Levi Leonido | Escola Estadual José Brígido Pereira Pedras Corinto -MINAS GERAIS -BRAZIL ▪ "What do we learn from indigenous peoples about the forest?" by Leilson Ferreira | Postdoc UTAD -BRAZIL ▪ "Environmental Education: understanding the cultural vision of development" by Francisco Jacucha Kimbanda , Juarês Manico & Daguberto Alfredo | ISCED -Huambo ANGOLA ▪ "The role of local authorities in supporting the Eco-Escolas program : The case study of Escola Básica Dr. Costa Matos" by Joana Nogueira, Hugo Teixeira (UF Santa Marinha and Afurada ) & Rosário Raimundo, Margarida Alves (Escola Básica Dr. Costa Matos) -PORTUGAL ▪ "(Dis)Harmonies of Art and the Environment" by José António Neves | INET -PORTUGAL ▪ "The oldest representations of plants in rock artthe case of Serra da Capivara Piauí" by Mila Simões de Abreu, Tamyris Santana & Maxim Jaffe (ALTER IBI -UTAD) & Cristiane Buco (IPHAN Fortaleza -BRAZIL) ▪ "Environmental Education on the paths of sensitivity: the experience of the Sensory Garden in Sobral-CE-BRAZIL" by Margareth Muniz Silva (Municipal Environmental Agency) & Rebeca Sales Viana (Vale do Acaraú State University-UVA) -BRAZIL ▪ "Music and environment: ideas for conscious acoustic-environmental education" by Gustavo Benetti & Jefferson Tiago | Federal University of Maranhão -BRAZIL ▪ "Art and Environment, a factor in the sustainability of a Bioregion " by Carlos Taveira and Mário Mesquita Carvalho | Portuguese Association of Sustainable Tourism -PORTUGAL ▪ "Reusing paper to manufacture artefacts as a solution to alleviate environmental problems" by Dinis Armando | United Methodist University of Mozambique -MOZAMBIQUE ▪ "Integrative Dance and the Environment" by Henrique Carioca et al. | UNICAMP -BRAZIL ▪ "Artistic-cultural activities in a different environment and context" by Eliana Bonfim, Levi Leonido & Bartolomeu Rodrigues | UTAD & Federal University of Paraíba -BRAZIL ▪ "Adventure Park and Ecological Trail" by Ana Sousa | LIPOR -PORTUGAL ▪ "Tales of the Biodiversity of Vila Real: artistic pedagogical-didactic approaches" by students of the Theater and Performing Arts Degree | Paulo Madanços -Coletivo Teatro -PORTUGAL.

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Figure 10Landscape & Soundscape : Culture, Arts and Identity Figure 11Vila Real's Biodiversity Tales

Table 1
SIIA promoted in the interinstitutional community extension plan