Rio de Janeiro is hosting the 10th Tattoo Week, an event whose trademark is solidarity, mixing art meetings with social actions based on tattoos.
The event’s CEO Esther Gawendo told Agência Brasil that safety tattoos are being donated to patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension or allergies to any medication. The event will last until Sunday (Jan. 22).
“We tattoo on a voluntary basis at the event,” Gawendo said. She pointed out that many lives can be saved this way. “If you are having a crisis and you have your tattoo indicating that you are allergic or diabetic, that can save a lot at the time during rescue.”
The 10th Rio Tattoo Week is also offering eyebrow micropigmentation and paramedical micropigmentation for nipple areola reconstruction, for mastectomized women, cancer victims who have lost their nipple. In this edition, for the first time, trans men who have had breast implants and have no nipple because of their gender transition are also being treated.
The organizers say the paramedical micropigmentation procedure can only be performed upon presentation of a medical report. Last year, 250 people were assisted. This year, the number is expected to double.
Partnership
The event is carried out through a partnership between Tattoo do Bem, Tattoo Week, and the Art with Passion Project, created by paramedical micropigmentator Ana Savoy. “My social project Art with Passion, which I created in 2012, always thrills me when I see the joy and the recovery of self-esteem of trans women and men. And this time, with the partnership of Tattoo Week, we will make many people happy,” she said.
Over a thousand tattoo artists and piercers from all over Brazil and the world will present their work to the public, as well as the latest trends in skin art. The companies, in turn, brought their newest launches in products and equipment.
For the creator and founder of Tattoo Week, Enio Conte, the event intends to give visibility to skin art, valuing its artists and showing that the sector is an important market in the economy. “Our goal is to bring a new experience to the participants and visitors and to thrill, proving that tattooing, besides art, is solidarity and generates jobs and income.
The municipal law sanctioned on December 26 last year included Tattoo Week in the official calendar of events of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Crédito arquivo Nacional EBC
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