Two days of fascination with tiles from art to technology! Tile Festival "CERASTA 2024" to be held in Osaka on August 30 and 31

The CERASTA 2024 Executive Committee, consisting of tile manufacturers, craftsmen, wholesalers, and other volunteers from across the industry, will hold the CERASTA 2024 event on August 30 (Fri.) and 31 (Sat.), 2024, to experience the appeal of tiles. The event will feature a variety of tile-related events. The event will feature a variety of contents, including a talk show with various tile-related speakers, a workshop to experience tile craftsmanship, public voting for tile chairs, and live music. (Free admission)

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<Outline of the event

Name: CERASTA 2024

Sponsor: CERASTA 2024 Executive Committee

Special Sponsor: Osaka Tile Cooperative Association

Period ： Friday, August 30, 10:30-20:30, Saturday, August 31, 10:30-18:30

Venue ： Osaka City Central Public Hall

Content ： Talk events by prominent figures,

　　　　　Tile craftsman experience workshop, tile works exhibition, etc.

Admission: Free (Pre-registration is required through the website)

　　　　　Supporters' Club with other benefits is also available.

Official website: https://cerasta.com

On the first day of the event, CERASTA 2024 will hold talk show and music performance!

Craftsmen's Roundtable

<Craftsmen's Roundtable: Rhetoric of Craftsmanship

Naoki Kusumi (plasterer) x Toshihiko Takayama (bricklayer) x Koji Sasaki (tile craftsman)

Rhetoric, one of the seven liberal arts since ancient Greece, is an important skill for craftsmen to acquire. How to connect what you want to create to your work and give form to it. To teach the presentation skills that are the cornerstone of a craftsman, leading Japanese craftsmen in the fields of plastering, brickwork, and tile will gather here.

Ghibli Park Roundtable

＜Ghibli Park Roundtable: Hot Wind of Tile

Masahiko Oyama, Goro Miyazaki, and Amane Shiraishi

The opening of the Ghibli Park has created a great interest in tiles, leading to the holding of CERASTA 2024. How was it possible to create such a hot wind of tiles? What is the appeal of tiles in the first place? Three key persons of Ghibli Park Tile Decoration will talk passionately about it.

Lecture: Creating a "Place" for Learning

＜Lecture: Creating a "Place" for Learning

Katsumi Hirakawa and Tatsuru Uchida

Mr. Uchida created a dojo for aikido training called Gaifukan, and Mr. Hirakawa created a coffee shop called Tonarimachi Coffee. Both are open to the community as places for lectures, practice, and study of traditional arts, poetry, and literature. How did these two friends, who have been friends since elementary school, unexpectedly come together to create a similar "common ground" for learning?

How did two people of different personalities and temperaments meet and develop such a long-lasting friendship? The old-timers who have lived through the Showa era talk about what it means to "live".

＜Live performance of the CERASTA theme song

KOTAKA

Kotaka, a tile craftsman and a singer from Osaka who has been attracting a lot of attention on SNS for his song "I want to enjoy such a life" has written an original theme song for CERASTA. The theme song will be performed live for the first time.

Torataka

＜H ZETTRIO's Children's Day Special Free Live - Tile Edition

H ZETTRIO

H ZETTRIO is a Japanese piano trio band whose theme is "Laugh and Dance" for both children and adults. Their music has also been used in many other movies, TV theme songs, and commercials. We hope you will enjoy their music and experience the world of their unique harmony at Tile's event. They will also perform a new song that will be performed for the first time on the day of the event.

H ZETTRIO

The main venue will be a space where you can "touch the tiles.

In the main venue, the middle assembly room, there will be exhibition booths of sponsors, workshops where visitors can actually experience tile installation, and a tile chair competition where visitors can compete with chairs made of tiles. Please enjoy the unique atmosphere of the festival.

＜Workshop "Tile Discovery"

Tiles have a history of approximately 5,000 years and have been integrated into various histories and cultures around the world. In this discovery tour, you will be guided by a top craftsman to discover what is possible even if you can't do it well, and what you can discover through experience. Step.4 Tile installation → Step.5 Filling the joints. Tile craftsmen will be issued a "Tile Craftsman Certificate" for those who experience the tour.

Preparation of tile base

＜Tile Chair Competition "Sworld Cup"

We will hold an exhibition and competition for chairs with tile.

Who will win the 1st Best Sworld Cup?

The visitors to the exhibition will be the judges and will vote for the winner.

Chairs decorated with tiles

[On the second day of the event, experts will talk about the past and future of tiles.

Symposium

<Symposium ～Memorable Spaces, Beloved Architecture and Tiles

Panelists ：Maki Onishi × Yuta Nakamura × Shinichi Takaoka × Shota Mizuno

Navigator: Kentaro Takeguchi

Tiles have been used in many architectural structures around the world to create memorable spaces.

Each presenter will propose what tiles will look like 100 years from now, while unraveling the transition of tiles and ceramics from the past to the present day.

Lecture "Tile and Osaka

＜Lecture "Tile and Osaka"

Fumikazu Abe

From the 1920s to the 1930s, Osaka made great strides toward becoming a metropolis, which is known as the "Osaka" era. During this period, modern buildings such as office buildings, department stores, and schools were constructed one after another, and tiles of various colors and shapes were used as interior materials. This exhibition will take you on a tour of the history of tiles in Japan and introduce you to the tiles that colored the city of Osaka.

On our website, we have a series of columns on the fascination of tiles and CERASTA 2024!

The fascinating content of each event is also a must-read.

Shiraishi Amane is a tile craftsman with a unique talent for tile design, tile production, and tile installation. His representative works include the Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo and the tile decoration of the Ghibli Park "Ghibli's Grand Warehouse".

Pre-register for admission here: https://coubic.com/cerasta

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About CERASTA 2024

　Tiles have been developed as building materials since ancient times. In Japan, imported tiles spread during the Meiji period (1868-1912), and the history continued with the rise of domestically produced tiles in the 1950s. However, due to the homogenization and rationalization of building materials in recent years, tiles are being replaced by other building materials. Therefore, we have planned this event in the hope that the appeal of tiles will be reintroduced, that tile culture will be built and people's lives will be enriched, that the industry will continue to prosper, and that children will aspire to work with tiles by giving them dreams of a career in the tile industry.

In the early Showa period (the so-called "Great Osaka"), Osaka was more economically booming than Tokyo, and was a major consumer of tiles. Reflecting the visionary architects' desire to build strong, long-lasting buildings, many buildings had exterior walls made of tiles, and even during World War II, such buildings were able to survive because they suffered relatively little damage from air raids. At that time, there were many shops dealing in Setomono in the Awaza and Honmachi areas in the center of the city, and the local citizens had a deep understanding of pottery. Tile makers were also concentrated in the area, and the buildings of those days remain today thanks to the understanding of tiled buildings and the affection of the local citizens.

The venue of this event, Osaka City Central Public Hall (completed in 1918), is one of the buildings from that period, and we will take the first step toward the creation of tile culture in Japan in this building where we can feel the history since 1922, when the name "tile" was officially unified.

　The logo compares tiles, which are baked at high temperatures to increase their strength and stay with us for a long time, to the phoenix, a bird that flies into the fire to gain eternal life. The design was created by Shino Suefusa, an artist who expresses herself by burning paper.

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