SAGA school opens entertainment space in a mall in east São Paulo

ExpoSAGA, located in Shopping Metrô Boulevard Tatuapé, will have arcade machines, an exhibition of student work and a chroma key set for photos; completely free, the space will operate on the same days and hours as the mall

São Paulo, November 24, 2020 – Visitors to Shopping Metrô Boulevard Tatuapé, in the east zone of São Paulo, can now also play games, take photos with friends in different settings and see an exhibition of paintings of pop culture characters. SAGA has just opened ExpoSAGA, a space with two arcade cabinets with hundreds of classic games for the public to play freely, a chroma key to make photos in different situations easier, and an exhibition of works by SAGA students. The space is open and the activities are free, upon registration on site.

Besides the activities, the public will also be able to learn a little more about SAGA, as school instructors will be on site to answer questions about the in-person courses (Playgame and Start 5.0) and online courses (Playgame 5.0, Vector Illustration and 2D Animation, and Photoshop: From Zero to a Complete Edit), and about the free workshops on Introduction to Photoshop, Animation and Games offered by the school.

ExpoSAGA is on the second floor of Shopping Metrô Boulevard Tatuapé (Rua Gonçalves Crespo, 78 – Tatuapé, São Paulo – SP), and its opening hours are the same as the mall’s: Monday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.

More information about SAGA and its courses is available at www.saga.art.br .

About SAGA (School of Art, Game and Animation) – A pioneer in game development education, SAGA has already turned thousands of young people into qualified and competitive professionals. Created in 2001, initially under another name and focused on computer training, it is today an Adobe and Autodesk Authorized Training Center, an Academic Partner of Unreal Engine, Pixologic and Allegorithmic, and a national reference in game and animation courses, with about 20,000 students and 16 units: Lapa, Paraíso, Santana, Santo Amaro and Tatuapé in the city of São Paulo; Centro, in Guarulhos; Centro, in Campinas; Jardim Satélite, in São José dos Campos/SP; Centro, in Santo André/SP; Pituba, in Salvador/BA; Boa Viagem, in Recife/PE, Taguatinga, in Brasília/DF; Centro, in Belo Horizonte/MG, Centro, in Goiânia/GO, Centro in Florianópolis/SC and Centro Histórico in Porto Alegre/RS. All units have highly qualified teachers, pedagogical support, digital course materials, laboratories equipped with the most advanced software tools, state-of-the-art equipment such as graphics tablets and workstations with special lighting for drawing, and offer the Start course, computer graphics for beginners. The SAGA units in Lapa, Santo Amaro and Tatuapé, in São Paulo, and in Belo Horizonte, Salvador and Recife also offer the game development course, Playgame. SAGA also conceived and promotes The Union, the largest computer graphics event in Brazil, and, in an unprecedented partnership with the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, from Hollywood, USA, created AXIS, an international digital art school located in the Paraíso neighborhood of São Paulo. See more about Saga at https://www.saga.art.br .