Message from the Local Chair

Dear Colleagues

It is with joy that we are working to receive you in Salvador Bahia for WCCA VIII - World Congress on Communication and Arts. We have committed in organizing this meeting and we would like to share this Bahia enthusiasm with all of you, in the hope that you can feel part of this process, making sure that the true brilliance of the congress only happens with your arrival. So now, feel welcomed in the first capital of Brazil.

Bahia is a warm state where beats the joy and practice of hospitality, and the site of many arts and brilliant members as Rui Barbosa, Dorival Caymmi, Milton Santos, Jorge Amado among many others. Besides presenting considerable natural beauty of the most beautiful postcards of the world as our Chapada Diamantina, our historic towns like Santa Cruz de Cabrália, Porto Seguro, Salvador with its beaches, historical center and a unique cuisine, which is an invitation to our visitors.

For all these reasons the Research Group TIPEMSE - Technologies, Pedagogical Innovation and Social Mobilization for Education, DCHT XVI, the UNEB - University of the State of Bahia, multicampi university present in most areas of our state, is pleased to host this event and its participants, taking advantage to invite you to look at the e undeniable advances in the areas of humanities, arts, music and communication and reflect their potential to address challenges for the twenty-first century, including the strengthening of the tripod education, research and extension, causing the university setting to increasingly invest in proposals concerning Justice and Welfare acting more decisively in solving social problems along with those more directly involved in them.

In this perspective, this meeting becomes an unique moment of multi referential integration, interdisciplinary efforts and discussions with a view to reflect on guidelines for the partnership of university and communities in a union of knowledge and doings that can contribute to the strengthening of action facing social challenges that show for many and hide for so many others in this game of micro powers representing the contemporaneousness.

With this motivation we are seeking not to avoid to meet the collective desire expressed in many locations thus calling to the participants of the VIII WCCA immerges in discussions on “Communication and Arts as Structuring Elements of Wellbeing and Social Justice”.

So we are together now and the city of Salvador waits with open arms.

Prof. Valnice Sousa Paiva
LOCAL CHAIR