Workshop for children with Vilanismo – Vilãozín: drawing is playing with worlds
On October 18, the workshop for children Vilãozín: drawing is playing with worlds, with Ramo, from Vilanismo, will take place from 2 pm to 4 pm in the Bloomberg education space, located on the third floor. The workshop is part of Conjugations – Education, part of the public program of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo. Conjugations – Education offers activities inspired by playing, dancing, singing, gaming, and storytelling, inviting the public to engage in an active and playful immersion in the exhibition, deepening practices of humanity and valuing diverse ways of being and living together.
The Vilãozín workshop invites children aged 3 and up, accompanied by their guardians, to dive into a universe of lines, colors, and affections inspired by the imaginary of Vilanismo — a territory of invention, freedom, and belonging. Here, drawing is less about “getting it right” and more about discovering: what is born when the pencil meets the paper, when a line becomes a street, when a doodle turns into a person, an animal, a house, or a planet?
The proposal is to create a playful and welcoming environment where the act of drawing merges with that of playing. Drawing from the images and symbols that flow through Vilanismo and its poetics — masks, tools, gates, graphic patterns, and affections — each child will be encouraged to translate their own stories and dreams into lines, shapes, and colors. The gathering also invites an intergenerational dialogue: adults and children draw side by side, exchanging knowledge and laughter in an exercise of creative coexistence.
More than learning how to draw, Vilãozín invites participants to draw themselves into the world.
Vilanismo (founded in 2021, São Paulo) is a collective of twelve Black men focused on creating spaces of resistance and affirmation within the art circuit. They value ancestral knowledge, Afro-Indigenous experiences, and collaborative construction, emphasizing autonomy and sustainable approaches. Through their work, they reject historical stereotypes and fetishes imposed on Black bodies, subverting normative expectations and celebrating cultural abundance. The group has participated in events such as Baile do Vilanismo (Edifício Misericórdia, São Paulo) and the “Black Masculinities” conversation-performance (Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo). It is now made up of Diego Crux, Ramo, Renan Teles, Carinhoso, Guto Oca, Rodrigo Zaim, Rafa Black, Robson Marques, Denis Moreira, and Daniel Ramos.
This participation is supported by The Order of New Arts.
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Workshop for children with Vilanismo – Vilãozín: drawing is playing with worlds
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
October 18, 2025
Saturday, 2 pm
Bloomberg education space, 3rd floor
Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo
Parque Ibirapuera, gate 3
Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/n – São Paulo, SP
free admission