Between October 15 and 18, Tiradentes welcomes new venues, more than 80 guests and a program that takes over different parts of the city
Submitted at Oct 12, 2026, 4:00 PM
Tiradentes, Minas Gerais (Douglas Mendes/Divulgação)
From a gathering dedicated to the connections between design and craftsmanship to a festival that spans different expressions of Brazilian culture. The Tiradentes Creative Week reaches its 10th edition between October 15 and 18, 2026, with a program spread across the historic city in Minas Gerais and new features that help tell the story of the event's own transformation over the past decade.
This year, more than 80 guests take part in lectures, meetings, and activities that move through architecture, art, fashion, gastronomy, music, heritage, and innovation. The program occupies 22 spaces distributed across 17 addresses in Tiradentes and gains two new houses, Casa D'Preto and Casa Rio. The organizers hope to surpass the roughly 22,000 visitors recorded in the previous edition.
The relationship between designers and artisans was at the origin of the Tiradentes Creative Week and remains present in the festival, but it no longer defines its program alone. Over the years, other areas have joined the curation, broadening discussions about creativity to include topics such as architecture, territories, heritage, fashion, cuisine, and artistic expressions.
"Today, we understand the Tiradentes Creative Week as a festival of creativity and culture in which these different areas meet and positively influence one another," says Simone Quintas, journalist and creator of the event alongside cultural producer Júnior Guimarães.
Encontro entre designers e artesãos na imersão promovida pela Semana Criativa de Tiradentes. (João Bertholini/Divulgação)
The city itself takes part in this construction. Instead of concentrating activities at a single address, the festival occupies streets, mansions, and public spaces, creating a route that brings the program closer to Tiradentes' architecture and history. For the organizers, this relationship with the territory is an essential part of the event's identity.
Among the names announced for this edition are architect Lígia Agostini, social urbanist Ester Carro, quilombola designer Dih Morais, fashion and biomaterials researcher Tainah Fagundes, data scientist Zaika dos Santos, and bamboo artist Marcelo Maia. Tiradentes-born artist Vinicius Rosa Rios will be honored at the 10th edition.
One of the main new features of this edition is Casa D'Preto, set up at the Casarão Ramalho, headquarters of IPHAN. Curated by architects and urbanists Pedro Rubens and Heloisa Nascimento, the space turns its gaze to ancestral knowledge, arts, and technologies, and to the work of Black professionals.
Cidade de Tiradentes, Minas Gerais (Nathalia Segato/Divulgação)
The program includes the exhibition Orí-gem, featuring works by local artists such as Bruno Henrique de Souza, Hudson Silveira, Selma Maria, and Elizabeth Ramos, as well as the 1st National Meeting of the HUB Arquitetura D'Preto. The gathering will bring together coordinators from 16 Brazilian states and from Lisbon.
During the festival, the Plataforma Arquitetura D'Preto will also be launched, created to connect clients and Black professionals linked to the construction industry, in addition to the screening of a documentary dedicated to the project.
Also making its debut, Casa Rio emerges as a concept space created by Didi Maakaröun, of Conceito MAADI, and Vivi Baldeija, of Capivara do Vale.
The proposal brings together signature design, art, craftsmanship, and sensory experiences in a curation focused on contemporary production from Rio de Janeiro. More than presenting objects in isolation, the project seeks to build a narrative around different expressions of Rio culture within the Minas Gerais context of the Creative Week.
Cidade de Tiradentes, Minas Gerais (Izabelly Marques/Divulgação)
The program spreads across different parts of the city. Casa Criativa continues as one of the event's hubs, bringing together exhibitions resulting from encounters between designers and artisans, lectures, conversation circles, and workshops.
Meanwhile, Casa Parábrings Amazonian production closer to the public through handicrafts, design, gastronomy and artistic interventions. Highlights include collaborative works developed with miriti and different expressions of handmade practices from the North region.
The relationship between territory, raw material and creation also guides Casa Mata Atlântica, dedicated to producers and projects linked to the biome, while Casa Arado investigates the rural imaginary and Brazilian country culture through graphic art, memory and objects.
Another address is Casa do Design Cearense, which brings together creators and works in which contemporary design meets artisanal techniques and materials such as straw and clay.
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Casa Pará. (Cacá Bratke/Divulgação)
The scale reached by Semana Criativa also appears in the numbers. According to data released by the organization, the audience grew from 14,000 visitors in 2024 to approximately 22,000 in 2025. Architects, designers and landscapers represented 36% of visitors in the last edition.
Part of this movement reaches commerce and authorial production. This year, the Mercado da Semana Criativa moves to Villa da Matriz, where it brings together brands, artisans and small producers from different Brazilian regions. The festival's distribution across several addresses also encourages the audience to circulate through different areas of the historic center.
The work, however, is not restricted to the days of programming. The Escola da Semana Criativa and the immersions held throughout the year seek to maintain the connection between designers, architects and artisans of the region, with activities linked to knowledge exchange, training and income generation.
Upon reaching its tenth edition, Semana Criativa de Tiradentes thus reveals a change of scale that lies not only in the number of visitors or activities. The expansion also appears in the way the festival has come to look at different territories, languages and ways of making, keeping Tiradentes as a meeting point between memory and contemporary production.
When: October 15 to 18, 2026
Where: Tiradentes, Minas Gerais
Programming distributed across different points of the city
Free entry, with reservation required for the lectures
