[Proposal | NEAR] Janaina Steiger
Proponent: @ janainasteiger
NEAR account for payment: janasteiger.near
Project duration: 30 days
Requested amount: 750 USD in NEAR
Project name: Can there be Poetry in Health? (working title)
Objectives
Publication of a book with the working title “Can there be Poetry in Health? About the pain that is not marked and the sensitivity that is not told”, by Janaína Steiger. A book of Brazilian contemporary poetry resulting from a Residency Final Work (in portuguese, “Trabalho de Conclusão de Residência”, TCR) in the speciality of Family and Community Health. Based on theories, practices and references experienced by the author during the COVID-19 pandemic period, the work establishes an important dialogue between Psychology, Public Health and Poetry.
The project consists of two stages, the first for editing and the second for publishing, as detailed below. This proposal refers only to the first stage.
Description
The TCR is a mandatory step of the Multiprofessional Residency in Family and Community Health, a lato sensu postgraduate course, linked to the Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, in Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil. The original project consists of a technical-scientific work, presented individually and evaluated by a panel composed by academic area members.
This work was fully written during the COVID-19 pandemic, and narrates excerpts from the daily life of a SUS (Brazil’s Public Health System) unit. Through poems in free verse, reference footnotes, dialogues with the reader and photographic records of the environments, the author invites us to enter this health service, highlighting details of this kind of work not only in the pandemic, but also bringing the singularities that this context has imposed.
Furthermore, the choice of fragments and highlighted points concerns an ethical-political position, which seeks a critical look at the effects of different social markers, especially gender, race and social class.
The work intends to be a testimonial and memory of the experience lived by health professionals during the pandemic, in this case in particular, at the level of Primary Health Care. So that won’t be forgotten and becomes less likely to be repeated. Besides, the poetry, as well as the dialogical and literary tone of writing, show its sensitive and affective character, intending to expand the reach usually taken by academic works in traditional formats, such as articles and essays.
As it was originally a Final Work, the project now needs adaptations to become a literary work, which involves editing, proofreading, diagramming and creating a graphic project that will adapt the content to printed book and NFT formats, which will be done by NADA∴Studio Criativo.
Justification and public
We believe that the project has potential relevance due to the innovative way it was proposed and approved by the Academy as a Residency Final Work. The project intends to make feasible the editorial services needed for the next stage, where we’re gonna print 200 copies of which 100 will be sold and 100 will be distributed in strategic events focused on health professionals who are daily impacted by the experience presented through of the book narrative, as well as users of the Unified Health System (SUS), intending to make them aware of the difficulties faced by this constantly threatened public service.
In addition, the book also intends to reach other people interested in poetry or those who want to be closer to different experiences during the pandemic, when collective exchanges were so limited.
Project timeline
The project is divided into two stages, the first one related to the editorial processes for the production of digital files for printing and NFT creation; and the second for printing, publicity and book launch actions. This proposal encompasses the first stage and follows the schedule below:
08 days — Edition
08 days — Proofreading
01 day — Ongoing report
12 days — Graphic design and layout
01 day — File exports, NFT minting and final report
Budget
350 USD in DAI for Text editing (@bagadefente & @aandz, 175 USD each)
180 USD in DAI for Proofreading ( @ anacmoura)
220 USD in DAI for Graphic design and layout (@bagadefente & @aandz, 110 USD each)
TOTAL: 750 USD in DAI
I chose to use all the requested funding to pay for the services, as this way I’ll get the book done and the opportunity to sell it as NFTs and printed editions.
First stage deliveries
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Complete PDF e-book version, with additional images, minted as NFT at Writer’s Guild store on Mintbase, with splits to our DAO (20%) and myself (80%);
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Visual pieces for advertising on all available media channels and profiles: the author, the book crew, NADA∴Studio Criativo, Writer’s Guild, Telegram groups and in Fazia Poesia channels.
(Fazia Poesia is the major Brazilian contemporary poetry publication on Medium).
Additional benefits
Writer’s Guild logo on the book cover, Near logo on the back cover.
Mention at the beginning of the book citing the funding by both, promoting and encouraging other people to know and get closer to the Near ecosystem, especially this guild.
Introducing the Near ecosystem and the Writer’s Guild within the Fazia Poesia community.
NEXT STEPS
Book Printing
After the NFT minting, we will propose the second and last stage to this guild, for book printing, launching and advertising, making this project a kind of phygital experiment
Half of the intended print run (100 copies of 200) will be available to sell and the other half will be distributed free of charge to Public Health professionals in Health Centers in the city of Porto Alegre, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
If for some reason that’s not possible, we are going to try to reach other DAOs, like Near Publish or similar ones, and ask for funding. As a last “plan C”, we’ll try to get funding for this through crowdfunding.
