The Pernambuco School of Fine Arts was born from the need to have, in NortheastBrazil, a school that would meet the public interest in terms of artistic vocations.

The State Museum of Pernambuco (MEP) was created on 24 August 1928, through State Law No. 1918. The law was pioneering in Northeast Brazil and in the country itself, and authorised the governor Estácio Coimbra to create the State Inspectorate of Monuments and a Historical and Ancient Art Museum.

The creation of a public archive is of paramount importance: it centralises a large number of documents in one place, and is also responsible for their selection, classification, cataloguing, restoration and conservation.

The plays that the students of Recife want to perform are an audacious attempt to make the art of representing go back to its former and genuine format, in direct contact with people, outdoor, free of charge, in a public square.

The Rabeca (fiddle) is a musical instrument of Arab origin, precursor of the violin, of popular making, which sounds by friction and is played with a bow, and originally has the body in the shape of a pear where three or four strings are placed.