This dissertation, aligned with a qualitative approach, made use of narrative research with the aim of understanding which subjectivation processes occur with subjects who have art and culture as central in their formative experiences, with theater as the main manifestation artistic and cultural. To this end, we studied the experience of two cultural collectives that occupy the Estação da Cultura in Arcoverde - PE, the city's former railway station, which went through a process of occupation and resistance, by local artists, in 2001. We bring the narratives of these (the subjects) who were directly involved at the time of the occupation movement, and those who today make up the two collectives participating in the research: Tropa do Balacobaco and Teatro de Retalhos. We put our lenses on some of the insurgent practices of these collectives, relying on theorists such as Paulo Freire, Miguel Arroyo, Catherine Walsh, Jorge Bondía Larrosa, among others, and on data on educational practices collected from participant observation, narrative interviews, discussion groups and self-assessments by the subjects themselves about their practices. As a result of the research, we bring elements to understand the relationships between subjectivities and culture, education and hinterland territoriality, which glimpse possibilities of affirming – and contributing to consolidating – the educational potential of processes centered and guided by popular cultures, processes of human formation that integrate all dimensions of being.