Experiences

  • Cacao, Uncovered

  • Inside São Paulo's Unseen Art Scene

  • Push Your Creativity Outside the Square

  • Feel the Connection of Capoeira

  • The Great Amazonian Baking Show

Cacao, Uncovered

Great teams savor the details, notice the subtleties, and share discovery — much like tasting the finest cacao. Join Katherina Cordás, hospitality director at Tuju — São Paulo’s two-Michelin-star destination — for a guided exploration of cacao’s history, aroma, texture, and taste. Through hands-on tasting and rich storytelling, participants uncover cacao’s journey from Brazilian biomes and Indigenous knowledge to contemporary gastronomy, experiencing it as more than chocolate — as culture, craft, and connection.

The session encourages teams to slow down, engage all their senses, and leave with a shared appreciation for one of Brazil’s most treasured ingredients.

Your Host

Katherina is the hospitality director at the two-Michelin-star Tuju in São Paulo, one of the most celebrated restaurants in Latin America. She leads Tuju Pesquisa, a nonprofit research and creativity center behind ingredient expeditions, interdisciplinary courses, and cultural experiences exploring Brazilian food through historical and social lenses.

  • Gastronomic researcher focused on Brazilian biomes and native ingredients

  • Led Tuju to win the Gin Mare Art of Hospitality Award (2024)

  • Contributor to Folha de S.Paulo, Harper’s Bazaar, VEJA, and Gama Revista

  • Frequent lecturer at universities, courses, and gastronomy congresses

Go beyond São Paulo’s major galleries with independent curator Guilherme Teixeira, exploring the city’s hidden art corridors, tucked-away studios, and experimental spaces that shape its contemporary culture. As you move through these quiet corners, Guilherme sparks conversation around urban design, identity, and creative practice — encouraging reflection, dialogue, and shared perspective.

Inside São Paulo’s Unseen Art Scene

The experience wraps with a relaxed pause over coffee, leaving teams with fresh insights and a deeper understanding of the city’s creative landscape.

Your Host

Guilherme is a São Paulo–based independent curator and art guide whose work spans artists working from peripheral areas to the city’s vibrant contemporary art scene. Raised in Freguesia do Ó, he is known for rethinking exhibition formats and building close relationships with artists across São Paulo’s creative landscape.

  • Independent curator collaborating with Mendes Wood DM, HOA, Jaqueline Martins, Marli Matsumoto, Galeria Athena

  • Founder of Escuro collective, blending Afro-diasporic music and pop-up art

  • Advocate for curatorship that
    expands representation for Black
    and peripheral youth

Push Your Creativity Outside the Square

Contemporary art is an ongoing conversation — a way to test ideas, challenge perspective, and respond to the world around us. Your group steps into São Paulo’s vibrant street-art scene with multimedia artist Mariana Falcão. Together, you design and collage a temporary wheatpaste mural in an open-air gallery, transforming a shared idea into a bold collective statement. With guidance on concept development and execution, everyone contributes to shape, color, and composition — building creative confidence through intuition and collaboration.

The session concludes with a group unveiling and team photo, capturing both the finished mural and the creative journey behind it.

Your Host

Mariana is a Salvador-born multimedia artist and street photographer based in São Paulo. Her work blends personal narrative, fashion, and urban intervention, spanning collaborations with global brands and intimate street-level projects that bring digital aesthetics into public space.

  • Creator of Gucci Bamboo 1947 street intervention campaign

  • Participant in Vivara’s Videoarte Rua across São Paulo

  • Contributor to Harper’s Bazaar and ELLE Magazine

Feel the Connection of Capoeira

Great teamwork is like music — it depends on listening, timing, and responding to one another. In this immersive capoeira workshop, Mestre Minhoca introduces your team to the songs, rhythms, and chants that guide the central roda. Through call-and-response exercises, everyone contributes to a shared soundscape, learning how cooperation and intuition create harmony.

The session ends with a collective singing circle, leaving the group connected, energized, and inspired by the power of rhythm, culture, and collaboration.

Your Host

Mestre Rodrigo Bruno Lima — known as Mestre Minhoca — leads Casa Mestre Ananias in the Bixiga neighborhood, a nationally recognized center for capoeira Angola and Afro-Bahian culture. A dedicated disciple of Mestre Ananias since 1993, he carries forward a legacy of music, ritual, and community practice.

  • Leader within São Paulo’s capoeira Angola scene

  • Expert berimbau player and capoeira musician since 1993

  • Founder and steward of IPHAN-recognized Casa Mestre Ananias

  • Facilitator of cultural workshops, rodas, and youth programs

The Great Amazonian Baking Show

Baking is an edible art form, where timing, precision, and a little heat come together to create something special. At Martoca Padaria in São Paulo, master baker Marta Carvalho (aka Martoca) invites your group to explore the rich flavors of the Amazon through hands-on bread, pastry, and cookie making. Working with natural leaven and native ingredients like cumaru and castanha-do-pará, teams discover how simple elements, treated with care, can become something memorable.

Participants leave with a bounty of baked goods — and a shared sense of patience, creativity, and accomplishment.

Your Host

Marta’s love for food turned into obsession after reading Michael Pollan’s Cooked in 2014, sparking her first levain experiments. Months of trial and error led to formal training at San Francisco Baking Institute and Le Cordon Bleu Rio. What began as gifting friends artisanal loaves grew through word-of-mouth into Martoca Padaria in Pinheiros (2024), producing 300 naturally leavened breads daily with a mostly female team, earning critical acclaim as one of São Paulo’s top bakery debuts (VEJA SP).

  • Trained at San Francisco Baking Institute and Le Cordon Bleu Rio

  • Pinheiros bakery hailed by VEJA SP as top 2024 debut

  • Predominantly female team producing 300 breads daily

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