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Reinventar a leitura: um olhar para as práticas de uma biblioteca comunitária/ Reinventing reading: a gaze on practices in a community library

Reading, this naturalized practice in contemporary culture, may be taken in its different meanings and contexts. In this paper, which is part of a research developed in a master's programme, I discuss some reading practices developed in the community library Ile Ara in Porto Alegre (RS). Drawing from ethnography and Cultural Studies, I analyze a variety of ways to conduct, distribute and enable reading. In this library, it is introduced to readers as 'reading bags', poetic soirees, literary meetings, talks with writers, among others. Thus, this space is expanded and reshaped, shaken by multiple languages: a variety of textual genres, different literary works, coloured illustrations, and cushions spread on the ground. Taking this context into account, I discuss how the profuse ways of reading, associated to other practices - drama, poems and celebrations - respond to a 'demand of pleasure' and change relationships and places designed to promote reading.