Among meats and books: the story o a cultural butchery

Abstract

In addition to selling meat, what else could a butcher offer? Books, of course. It seems unusual, but it is the honest truth. A butcher in Brasilia, DF, puts bookshelves in his establishment to anyone who wants to borrow them and programs cultural evenings with discussions, musical and concerts events in addition to installing bookshelves at bus stops in the city. Utopia? Madness? To Luiz Amorim a dream put into practice, an exercise of citizenship. Two decades later, the events are part of the Capital’s cultural calendar of the country and revolutionized the meaning of the existing equity shares. The cultural events of the T-Bone butcher, a heritage aggregator of the city residents, are already attracting tourists from Brazil and abroad. It is a popular cultural know-how to understand the heritage and identity of its people as a reference, as equity is not just made up of material facts and official "worthy" of being remembered and much less for building "proposals for eternity”. It is much