The Japan Foundation Asia Center will hold the "Sanriku International Arts Festival (SAN Fes)" from 9th of February to 24th of March in 2019 together with co-organisers, Sanriku International Arts Promotion Committee and Japan Contemporary Dance Network at the coastal area of the Sanriku region that stretches out over 600 km. To further connect the Sanriku region with Asia, 5 collaborative projects called, "Sanriku×Asia Tsunagaru Project" will also be held during the festival. During the projects, various cultural exchange events will be carried out.
One of the Sanriku×Asia Tsunagaru Project is called "KESEN ART & LIFE POTLUCK SHARING." This project is delightfully going to hold art events, in which artists and designers from Asian countries create together with local people who dwell in Kesen region. This project aims to share together with more people a vision of the future environment and the way of how community's supposed to be, to contemplate together, and to make actions by engagement of locals with Asian people, re-discovery of art in everyday life, and making opportunities for an international dialogue.
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Event detail
ART & LIFE STUDIO Exhibition
| Date & Time | Thursday - Sunday, March 21 - 24, 2019 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
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| Venue | Former Yokota elementary school |
| Admission | Free (registration not required) |
| Contents | Two art programs take place in the exhibition. Document of DISPLACED: The RIKUZENTAKATA-MANILA Collaborative Art Project, which is an interdisciplinary cultural-arts research project focusing on post-disaster areas that a number of Rikuzentakata AIR residency artists from Asian countries such as the Philippines, Thailand and Japan have been developing together. The project showcases the outcomes of artists' research that reveal sever situations of the Philippines under the natural disaster and urban poor communities. Along with it, Rikuzentakata AIR 2018 residency artists have a group exhibition, which showcase their art projects created from the one-month stay, inviting also a local painter ASUKA in Yokota. |
| Inquiry | Mr. Jun Matsuyama Natsukashi-Mirai-Sozo, Co., Ltd. E-mail: rikuzentakata.air@gmail.com |
| Organizer | The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Natsukashi-Mirai-Sozo, Co., Ltd. |
Rikuzentakata Meeting in Yokota
| Date & Time | Thursday, March 21, 2019 First half 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. / Second half 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
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| Venue | Former Yokota elementary school |
| Language | Japanese, English |
| Admission | Free *Booking required by e-mail |
| Contents | Welcoming a photographer Naoya Hatakeyama from Rikuzenkatata City as a guest speaker, the talk session seeks possibilities of art discussing with Rikuzentakata AIR residency artists in terms of its theme ART & LIFE. At the first half the residency artists explain about their art project in Rikuzentakata, and at the second half the talk session refers to the DISPLACED project and overall of Rikuzentakata AIR. |
| Inquiry | Mr. Jun Matsuyama Natsukashi-Mirai-Sozo, Co., Ltd. E-mail: rikuzentakata.air@gmail.com |
| Organizer | The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Natsukashi-Mirai-Sozo, Co., Ltd. |
KESEN ART & LIFE MARCHE
| Date & Time | Sunday, March 24, 2019 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
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| Venue | Tochigasawa Park |
| Admission | Free (registration not required) |
| Contents | A flea market-type Marche is held by people from Kesen region and also outside of Iwate. Artists of the Rikuzentakata AIR who also would experience Kesen culture will be having own booth. |
| Inquiry | Mr. Jun Matsuyama Natsukashi-Mirai-Sozo, Co., Ltd. E-mail: rikuzentakata.air@gmail.com |
| Organizer | The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Natsukashi-Mirai-Sozo, Co., Ltd. |
Workshop for kids "Home Kitchen by Asian Kids: Let's make a lunch box"
| Date & Time | Sunday, March 24, 2019 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
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| Venue | Shukaijo (Meeting Space) in Tochigasawa Apartment |
| Language | Japanese |
| Admission | Free. The workshop will end when all the stock has been finished. |
| Contents | A workshop is held by MOTTO, an art unit for children, in the aim of mutual understanding about Asian diverse cultures through the way of making craft. The children who are approved as "kids facilitator" will have a presentation and a workshop for other children in the Marche. |
| Inquiry | Mr. Jun Matsuyama Natsukashi-Mirai-Sozo, Co., Ltd. E-mail: rikuzentakata.air@gmail.com |
| 主催 | The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Natsukashi-Mirai-Sozo, Co., Ltd. |
【Access】
Former Yokota elementary school
Sidami3–1, Yokotacho, Rikuzentakata–shi, Iwate, 029–2202 Googlemap
Shuukai jo (Meeting Place) in Tochigasawa Apartment
Tochikesawatochikesawa210, Takatacho, Rikuzentakata–shi, Iwate, 029–2205 Googlemap
KESEN ART & LIFE POTRUCK SHARING
Rikuzentakata Artist in Residence Program
Other projects
Dialogue with the future, Sanriku and Indonesia
HANDs! -Hope and Dreams- for Miyako!
This is the certified project of beyond 2020 program.
