Fonte de financiamento: CNPq, Capes, and Pipeq/PUCSP. Conflito de interess: Não há. Recebido em: 29 Jan 2023. Aceito em: 25 Abr 2023. Este é um artigo publicado em acesso aberto (Open Access) sob a licença Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative, que permite uso, distribuição e reprodução em qualquer meio, sem restrições desde que sem fins comerciais, sem alterações e que o trabalho original seja corretamente citado. Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada, ano 22, n. 1, DT 2, 2023 | https://doi.org/10.26512/rhla.v22i1.46945 1/13 DOSSIÊ: TRANSLINGUAGEM E EDUCAÇÃO LINGUÍSTICA CRÍTICA EM CONTEXTO (PÓS)PANDÊMICO ARTIGO ORIGINAL Play, engagement and multiliteracy to produce the “viable unheard of” in a multilingual environment Brincadeira, engajamento e multiletramento para produção do inédito viável em um ambiente multilíngue Fernanda Coelho Liberali 1 ; Rayssa Mesquita Dunkerly 2 ; Sandra V. André Borges 3 ; Luciana K. Modesto-Sarra 4 ; Marina Tiso 5 1 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - liberali@uol.com.br 2 PPGL - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - rayssa.mesquita@gmail.com 3 IMTE - Saint Mary’s University - sandra.andre.borges@smu.ca 4 LAEL - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - luciana.kool@gmail.com 5 LAEL - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - marinatiso@gmail.com Como citar o artigo LIBERALI, F.; DUNKERLY, R.; BORGES, S.; MODESTO-SARRA, L.; TISO, M. Play, engagement and multiliteracy to produce the “viable unheard of” in a multilingual environment. Revista Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada, ano 22, n. 1, p. DT2, 2023. Abstract We aim to present an interactive cross-language experience in a creative learning environment, where participants were invited to make use of their communicative strategies in a multicultural context. In this proposal, it is presented how the concepts of Play (VYGOTSKY, 1933), Engaged Multiliteracy (LIBERALI, 2022) and Multiliteracy are intertwined to produce the “viable unheard of” (FREIRE, 1987) in the Brincadas Project, a Brazilian initiative supported by the Global Play Brigade, an international group from more than 60 countries, including Brazil. This Project emerged as a response to the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the Brincadas Project's objective is to transform oppressive social contexts, or, as Paulo Freire (FREIRE, 1987) would say "limiting situations'' 1 , materializing new alternatives to overcome the obstacles that have been imposed in everyday life in the midst of the pandemic of COVID-19. In this virtual Carnival activity, participants were invited to use their different repertoires, and social life experiences to recreate them in a more critical and revolutionary way, re-signifying their learning and expanding their acting possibilities. For this article, we refer to a Virtual Carnival experience offered by the Brincadas Project in February of 2021. Keywords: Cross-translanguaging, Multiliteracy, Engaged Multiliteracy, Play, Critic linguistic education, Carnival Resumo Nosso objetivo é apresentar uma experiência de interação multilíngue em um ambiente de aprendizagem criativa, na qual os participantes foram convidados a fazer uso de suas estratégias 1 In this article, chose to follow Freire's (1987) concept of "limiting situation" and, therefore, it is used throughout the article to indicate social contexts in which different forces of oppression and injustice are at play.