Tiradentes Creative Week brings together designers and artisans in its 6th edition

The 6th edition of Tiradentes Creative Week began yesterday (20) in Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, and will run until Sunday, October 23. The intense program includes workshops, exhibitions, installations, lectures and chats, and even film screenings. and book launches. Every year, Tiradentes Creative Week is renewed with the aim of valuing and keeping alive the memory of the region's traditional knowledge and stimulating entrepreneurship through design, crafts and architecture.

What is Tiradentes Creative Week?

Tiradentes Creative Week is a social and cultural project that promotes the exchange of knowledge and techniques between designers and artisans who, over the course of a year, create design projects full of Brazilianness that pay homage to traditional production. The experience – transformative for both the sides, which begin to express new knowledge in their lives and work – resulting in creative products full of history that are displayed and sold in the Tiradentes Creative Week store and in design stores across the country. For four days, the event is packed with activities to cater to the most diverse audiences: lectures, discussion groups, exhibitions, workshops, book launches, design fair and small producers' fair, which aim to disseminate and value traditional knowledge, avoiding that they get lost and erase part of history with them . The project is carried out by journalist Simone Quintas and cultural producer Júnior Guimarães .

Schedule

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj9JftwpMvD/ Even those who are not good at crafts will have the opportunity to take home a piece of art produced by their own hands in one of the SCT workshops , with the guidance and supervision of Tiradentes artisans. Artistic installations will be spread throughout the city, occupying locations in the Historic Center. . In addition, five documentaries related to the themes of crafts, design and architecture will be presented.

This comprehensive guide can help you plan for the four days of the event.

Professionals participating in the event

Among the participants of the 6th Creative Week of Tiradentes are the designers Gustavo Bittencourt , Karol Suguikawa , Luly Vianna , Pietro Oliveira and Rodrigo Ambrosio , and the artisans Alisson Lourenço Nascimento , Bela Ladeira , Camila Mendes , Carlos Henrique Barbosa , Edna Carvalho de Santana , Leonardo Luiz da Silva , Claudio de Matos Ferreira (Nôca), Tatiane Carvalho de Santana , Tiago Cesar and Wellington Carvalho de Santana . In addition, several artisans who participated in previous editions will return to the project once again and, together with the team of designers, will continue to exchange, create and improve previous projects. The movement of continuity of artisans and designers is called “ Unfoldings ”. The professionals' lectures will be available on the SCT YouTube channel at the end of each day of the event.

About Tiradentes

The city of Tiradentes, in Minas Gerais, breathes history. An important center for gold mining during the colonial period of Brazil, the city is known for having one of the most beautiful colonial architectural legacies found in the country , as well as baroque churches. In 1938, the historic center It was listed by the then National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service (SPHAN). Very famous for tourism in the region, the city has been the setting for soap operas, series and period films.

Tiradentes Creative Week Service

When? From October 20 to October 23, 2022 Where? Tiradentes, Minas Gerais Programming: www.semanacriativadetiradentes.com.br More information: www.instagram.com/semanacriativadetiradentes