Peace Factories receive fashion course that combines sustainability and inclusion
Project serves residents of the Metropolitan Region of Belém and the results may be presented during the Global Citizen Festival
On the night of this Thursday (28), the first class of the course "Weaving Territories" took place at UsiPaz Jurunas/Condor. The initiative of the Government of Pará, through the State Secretariats of Culture (Secult) and Citizenship Articulation (Seac), is carried out in partnership with the Global Citizen Festival and aims to promote a sustainable fashion show.
The classes will also take place at the Peace Factories of Terra Firme, Bengui, and Cabanagem. Registrations are still open and can be made until Saturday (30), in person at the participating units.
This action is part of the project coordinated by Seac, which brings together different state secretariats in activities at the Peace Factories aimed at COP30. Within this parent project, Secult develops "Amazon Resistance - Fashion, culture, and inclusion at COP30," which foresees the realization of a multilingual fashion show that combines fashion, art, and social inclusion.
The results of the activities developed by the participating secretariats will be presented on October 30, at the Peace Factory of Cabanagem, in a large collective exhibition. In addition, participants of the workshops and training at the Peace Factories will receive tickets for the Global Citizen Festival: Amazon.
"We will work on decolonial fashion at the Peace Factories, bringing a sense of belonging, of the authorial fashion produced here, with the face of the North, with the face of Pará. We will be specifically working in Jurunas, for example, with technobrega, the sound systems, bringing this into fashion design. In each factory, we will work on a concept, but in the end, this collection will be in harmony so that everyone sees themselves in this conceptual fashion," explains the course instructor, Alcimara Braga.
The proposal is that the fashion show can be presented on November 1, 2025, at the opening of the Global Citizen Festival: Amazon, integrating into the cultural programming leading to Belém, which precedes the opening of the 30th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30).
Architect Gustavo Castro, a resident of Jurunas, enrolled in the course to reconnect with an old passion introduced by his mother: fashion. "I have had some experience with upcycling, customization, applying paints, beads, embroidery, things I learned from my mother, and the course was the opportunity to reconnect with that part of myself that was somewhat faded. Today we received a lot of information, I found the way things are being presented very interesting. They managed to address the issue of sustainability, representativeness, I think it will be very good," he says.
The course monitor, Alexandra Coelho, explains what the next steps will be. "We will create an environment with the students, bringing them more into this fashion environment, explaining the basic concepts. Starting tomorrow, we will begin the practices with drawing, all the techniques, and then the entire production part," she states.
The project will also be implemented at the Women's Custody and Reintegration Unit (UCRF) and, in total, about 30 costumes are expected to be produced.
Text: Juliana Amaral, Ascom Secult
