As cidades criativas: uma mirada sobre as iniciativas artísticas, criativas e culturais de Ivoti,RS, Brasil.

the concept of creative cities is defined as a joint process between creativity, culture and the city, able to continuously transform their socioeconomic structure based on the creativity of its people, combined with their cultural singularities. In this way, the paper offers a reflection of the artistic, creative and cultural initiatives in different communities of the city of Ivoti, RS, according to the concept of creative cities developed by the authors of the theoretical reference. Therefore, the Creative Economy Plan of the Ministry of Culture, delimited to the Scope of the Creative Industries (2011), which proposed a relationship with the initiatives recognized by the corresponding municipal departamento. Thus, it was used the method of descriptive and exploratory qualitative research that included methodological procedures as author-based literature reviewing on the concept of creative cities appointed by Marino (2009), Reis and Marco (2009), Reis and Kageyama (2011), Reis (2012), Vivant (2012) and Landry (2013), field research that included interviews with Department of Culture and Tourism of Ivoti, RS, information gathered via internet and on-site carried out a survey of the artistic, creative and cultural initiatives in the city. Among the results it was observed that Ivoti, RS initiatives have converged to the concept of creative cities proposed by the researched authors, as well as has potential to develop as a creative city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]