[CERASTA 2024 Executive Committee] Two days to be fascinated by tiles, from art to technology! Tile festival “CERASTA”
2024” will be held for the first time in Osaka on 8/30/31
*CERASTA 2024 Executive Committee*
Press release: August 21, 2024
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Two days to be fascinated by tiles, from art to technology! Tile festival “CERASTA 2024” will be held for the first time in Osaka on August 30th and 31st
*Tile manufacturers, wholesalers, and craftsmen gather from all over the country to convey the appeal and possibilities of tiles* * “CERASTA2024 Executive Committee” is made up of volunteers from different professions such as tile manufacturers, craftsmen, wholesalers, etc.
will be an event where you can experience the charm of tiles on August 30th (Friday) and 31st (Saturday), 2024 [CERASTA 2024 ~ Enchanting the future with tiles ~]
We will be holding a On the day of the event, we will have a variety of content, including talk shows by various tile-related speakers, a tile craftsman experience workshop, public voting for tile chairs, and live music. (Free admission)*
Event overview
・Name: CERASTA 2024
・Sponsor: CERASTA 2024 Executive Committee
・Special Sponsor: Osaka Tile Cooperative Association
・Event period: Friday, August 30, 2024 10:30-20:30, Saturday, August 31, 2024 10:30-18:30
・Venue: Osaka City Central Public Hall
・Contents: Talk event by celebrities, tile craftsman experience workshop, tile work exhibition, etc.
・Admission: Free (advance registration required from official website) We also have a supporters club with benefits.
Official homepage
■On the first day of the event, a CERASTA 2024 limited talk show and music live will be held!
* Craftsman Roundtable Discussion – Rhetoric of Craftsmen – * * Yuo Kusumi (plasterer) × Toshihiko Takayama (brick craftsman) × Yasushi Sasaki (tile craftsman) *
Rhetoric, which has been counted as one of the seven free subjects since ancient Greece, is an important skill that craftsmen should master. How do you connect what you want to create to your work and give it form? Japan’s leading craftsmen in the plastering, brick, and tile fields will gather to teach presentation skills, which are the key to being a craftsman.
* Ghibli Park roundtable discussion ~Hot wind of tiles~ *
* Masahiko Oyama × Goro Miyazaki × Fu Shiraishi*
With the opening of Ghibli Park, tiles became a big hit and CERASTA This has led to the event being held in 2024. How did we achieve this level of manufacturing that makes the tiles feel so hot? What is the appeal of tiles in the first place? Three key people behind Ghibli Park tile decoration speak passionately.
* Lecture – Creating a “place” for learning – *
* Katsumi Hirakawa × Itsuki Uchida *
Mr. Uchida established a dojo for Aikido training called Kaifukan, and Mr. Hirakawa established a coffee shop called Neighborhood Coffee. Both are open to the community as places for lectures, practice, and learning about traditional performing arts, poetry, and literature. What kind of thoughts led these two people, who have been friends since elementary school, to unexpectedly create a “common ground” for learning in the same way?
How did these two people, with their different personalities and temperaments, meet and develop such a long-lasting friendship? What it means to live as told by the elders who lived in the Showa era.
* LIVE ~CERASTA theme song debut performance~ *
*Kotaka*
The song “I want to enjoy such a life” is a song from Osaka that has become a hot topic on social media.
Mr. Torataka, an active tile craftsman and singer-songwriter, has written a new CERASTA original theme song. The theme song will be performed live for the first time.
* H ZETTRIO’s Children’s Day Special Free Live ~Tile Edition~ * *H ZETTRIO*
A Japanese piano trio band whose theme is to make both adults and children laugh and dance. The song was used at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which was held at the handover ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics, and became a hot topic of
conversation. It has also been used in many other movies, TV theme songs, commercials, etc. At the Tile event, you can experience the world of their music and their unique harmonies. There will also be a performance of a new song that will be performed for the first time on the day of the event.
■The main venue is a space where you can “touch the tiles”
The main venue, the medium-sized meeting room, will feature exhibit booths from supporting companies, as well as workshops where you can experience a tile construction site and a tile chair competition where you can compete with chairs made from tiles.
* Craftsman experience workshop “Tile Discovery” *
Tiles, which have a history of about 5,000 years and have been integrated into every history and culture around the world, are brought to life only when they are installed. This is a discovery tour where you will be taught by top craftsmen, but it is natural that you may not be able to do it well, and you will make discoveries that can be made by experiencing it.
Groups of 4 people set off on 5 experiential tours: 1. Inking → 2. Base production → 3. Tile cutting → 4. Tiling → 5. Grout filling You will proceed according to the flow of the actual construction site. Those who experience the tour will be issued a CERASTA-certified “Tile Craftsman Certification”.
* Tile Chair Competition “Sword Cup” *
We will solicit chairs with tile seats from the public and hold an exhibition competition in which 100 chairs will be submitted. Who will win the first Best Swarm?
Everyone who comes to the event will act as a judge and vote. ■Experts will talk about the past and future of tiles on the second day of the event
* Symposium – Unforgettable spaces, beloved architecture and tiles – * panelists
* Maki Onishi × Yuta Nakamura × Shinichi Takaoka × Shota Mizuno * Navigator* Kentaro Takeguchi*
Tile is an architectural material that has been used in many buildings around the world, adding color to memorable spaces.
While unraveling the changes in tiles and ceramics from the past to the present, various commentators will propose what tiles will look like 100 years from now.
* Lecture ~Tile and Osaka~ *
*Fumikazu Abe*
From the 1920s to the 1930s, Osaka rapidly became a metropolis, and was called the “Great 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. While exploring the history of tiles in Japan, we will introduce the tiles that decorated the city of Osaka.
On our homepage, we are running a series of columns that approach the appeal of tiles and CERASTA 2024!
The charm of each event content is also a must-read.
Fu Shiraishi/Amane Shiraishi An exceptionally talented tile craftsman who consistently handles all aspects of tile design, tile production, and tile construction. Representative works include “Starbucks Reserve”
Roastery Tokyo” and Ghibli Park’s “Ghibli Warehouse” tile decorations. Click here for advance admission registration
About CERASTA 2024
Tiles have been developed as a building material since ancient times. In Japan, imported tiles spread during the Meiji period, and in the 1950s domestically produced tiles entered a period of prosperity, and history continued on. However, due to the homogenization and rationalization of building materials in recent years, tiles are being replaced by other building materials. Therefore, by conveying the appeal of tiles again, we hope to build a tile culture and enrich people’s lives.We also hope for the continued prosperity of the industry, and by giving children dreams of tile-related work. We planned this event with the aim of making this a dream job.
During the early Showa era, the so-called “Great Osaka” era, Osaka was more economically active than Tokyo and was a major consumer of tiles. Many of the buildings used tiles on their exterior walls, reflecting the visionary architect’s desire to build strong and long-lasting buildings, and even during World War II, they suffered relatively little damage from air raids. Such buildings were able to survive because they were small. At that time, there were many businesses selling pottery in the Awaza and Honmachi areas of the city center, and the local citizens had a deep understanding of pottery. Tile manufacturers also gathered in the vicinity, and the buildings from that time remain today thanks to the people’s understanding and attachment to tiled buildings.
Venue of this event
Osaka City Central Public Hall (completed in 1918) is one of the buildings from that era. This building, where you can feel the history dating back to 1922 when the name was officially unified as “Tile”, marks the first step toward creating a tile culture in Japan.
The logo compares the tiles, which are baked at high temperatures to increase their strength and last for a long time, to a phoenix, which jumps into the fire and gains eternal life. An artist who expresses his designs by burning paper.
Mr. Shino Suefusa.