Press release 2017
CREATIVEWEAR PROJECT IN PALERMO: DEEPENING CREATIVITY WITH VESTINO2017 EVENT
It will be held in Palermo this coming Thursday, October 26, next operative meeting of CreativeWear, an Interreg MED Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, which aims to give new life to the creative heritage, the design culture and the relevant know-how of Mediterranean T&C industry through a new attention on manifold concept of creativity.
Developed by Consorzio Arca, the Sicilian partner of the Project, the agenda of the meeting provides on the sidelines of the technical sessions focusing the advancement of hubs pilot activities taking place on involved territories (Spain, Slovenia, Greece and Italy) the participation to Vestino2017, a creative happening spread in many locations in the heart of the city, organized by Consortium ARCA with the collaboration of CRE.ZI Plus, Dimora Oz and Atelier COWORK and sponsored by the Municipality of Palermo.
Vestino, is an idea for an annual celebration of the values and work of the CreativeWear Hub community in Palermo as well as to enhance the innovative activities of each Creativewear Hub, exploring new forms of collaboration between creatives and the textile and clothing industry in five different regions of the Mediterranean area.
This is intended as the first edition (from October 27th to 29th, 2017), with a second edition planned for October 2018 in the context of Palermo as the Italian Cultural City of the Year and the host of the biennial Manifesta 12 exhibition.
As a joyful itinerary, Vestino unfolds in various modalities co-created with artists and designers working together with manufacturers and shop-owners, opened to the city and enriched by collective workshops, and exhibitions by Palermo artists and designers alongside workshops and installations from the creative communities of Valencia, Ljubljana, Athens and Prato, Creativewear Project partnership.
An original attempt to combine goals and procedure of the Project with the artistic feel of designers and creators in the city of Palermo and beyond, but also the concrete possibility of bringing the audience closer to the content and expected results of CreativeWear.
Creativewear project and Vestino 2017
Palermo, October 27th -29th, 2017
Creativewear Project
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Press release 2018
VESTINO 2018. FOUR DAYS OF ART AND CREATIVITY TEXTILE THEMED IN PALERMO.
In the year that sees Palermo as Italian Capital of Culture, a real flow of creative energy will involve the city for 4 days starting next October 18th. This is in brief the description of the new edition of Vestino, an artistic happening with a textile and fashion theme scheduled in the Sicilian capital in the next few days. Born from the idea of a group of artists, artisans and researchers from Palermo as an annual event celebrating the values and the community of the CreativeWear Palermo Hub, Vestino is a widespread celebration in the city that during its first edition last year saw local artists collaborating with creatives from different European countries involving companies, ateliers, art and craft workshops in the textile and clothing sector.
A full calendar of events, exhibitions, workshops and meetings that starting from the headquarters of the CRE.ZI.PLUS association at Cantieri Culturali della Zisa, core place of the event, will reach many locations throughout the city center, getting to involve about 60 ateliers and up to 20 workshops and creative workshops to compose a unique proposal of activities between art, design and craftsmanship.
Starting the event on Thursday 18th October at 7.30 pm at CRE.ZI.PLUS venue, will be the collective exhibition of the works and prototypes produced within the activities developed by the Hub network of the Creativewear Project. Designers, artists, textile companies and research laboratories from the creative communities of Valencia, Ljubljana, Athens and Prato will present to the public fabrics, capsule collections, clothing items, creative prints, design objects, artistic creations and cutting-edge technological processes that will tell how creativity has found innovative applications for the European T&C sector and the Mediterranean area.
Vestino # 2018 will also be an opportunity to get to know the Hubs who recently have joined the Creativewear Project by integrating the network of creative communities of the Mediterranean area who work for the proposal of innovative ideas and solutions to give new impulse to the textile and clothing sector.
New Hubs participating in the Creativewear Project are: The Identity Hub in Bari (Italy), The Skills Hub in Thessaloniki (Greece), The Fashion&Design Hub in Igualada (Spain), The Sustainability Hub in Biella (Italy), The Innovation Hub in Bidart (France), The Training Hub in Cakovec (Croatia) and The Awareness Hub in Izmir (Turkey).
The agenda will also include a works of art exhibition at Cinema DE SETA venue, video installations and contemporary art creations by Dimora OZ artists and the participation of the Alab Palermo lab network and Gullo Filati (clothing, haberdashery, fabric shops, etc.) exhibiting works and clothing collections created by artists and designers from Palermo and even installations of sartorial creations inspired by the theme of "Sicilianità" (being Sicilian) in collaboration with ALAB Laboratories.
Within Vestino festival, the international seminar of the Social & Creative MED community coordinated by the TALIA Project will also take place on Thursday 19 October. It will bring together the eleven Interreg MED projects of the Social&Creative Community to share insights on the contribution of creativity to the sustainable development of the MED space, towards an emergent vision of inclusive innovation.
Vestino 2018 is realized thanks to the CreativeWear project with the financial contribution of the European Union Interreg MED Program and with the free patronage of the Municipality of Palermo and Palermo Capital of Culture 2018.
