An exhibition showing the accomplishments of the Taikan Taiken (Feel & Experience) Lab Team is being held at 6A Entrance Gallery. Scenes of the workshops carried out at Fukushima-shi, Tsuchi-yu and Iwaki-shi, Onahama are on display as well as the members’ reports with large photographs of the activities. Please come and see them.
Date & Time: Dec. 9 (Monday) to Dec. 23 (Monday), 9:00-17:00
Venue: 6A Entrance Gallery (Iida)
Author: CR
”Kamado (Cooking range) Day” in Hojo, Tsukuba city.
On Nov. 30, the students organized the ”Kamado (cooking range) Day”. Out in the open, 3 hagama (broad-brimmed cooking pot for rice) were arranged on the kamado (cooking range) made of stacked bricks, and new rice (the first crop of rice of the year) was cooked.
Pizza was also baked in the kamado made of L-shaped steel and bricks, and kenchin-jiru (Japanese tofu and vegetable soup) and sumitsukare, a local specialty, were also served to the locals.
The reconstruction support attempt by this Food Culture Team won the Semi Grand Prix at an international design competition, the Tokyo Designers Week 2013. It was a remarkable achievement in that their activity, which brought about events and situations in the disaster stricken areas, was recognized by the design world. (Osaka)
Preview: Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art – Dec. 13, Friday
At the next Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art, Naomichi Kawabata, the graphic designer, will come to give a lecture on “World War I & the Great Kanto Earthquake – Historical Relationship of Japan-Germany Posters”. A summary of “Catastrophe & Art” will be carried out in the 7th period.
Venue: Tsukuba University, Bldg. 5C Rm. 416
Date & Time: Dec. 13, Friday
6th Period – 16:45~18:00 Lecturer: Naomichi Kawabata,
7th Period – 18:15～19:30 Summary (Toshiharu Omuka)
* The class extends over 2 periods. Please come as anyone can take part. (Hashimoto)
Itako Team Report Exhibition
An exhibition reporting on the outcome of the Itako team is being held at 6A Entrance Gallery. Please come and see the exhibit.
Date & Time: Nov. 25 (Monday) – Dec. 6 (Friday), 9:00-18:00
Venue: 6A Entrance Gallery
(Iida)
An Event was held in Minami-Soma!
For 2 days, on Nov. 16 and 17, “Encounter with Art in Minami-Soma” was held at the Lifelong Learning Center in Fukushima-ken, Minami-Soma-shi, Haramachi.
Students of the Carving and Modeling course and Western Style Painting course used their skills to carry out different kinds of workshops. The weather was beautiful and many families came to have fun. The children carved wood or piled stones and did some serious artwork. Seeing the children who proudly showed off the accessories and objet d’art that they had made, the students were glad they had held the event and seemed to have enjoyed it, too.
It was an event in which the students reaffirmed their confidence in the fact that there are things they can do through the art they are studying. (Akagi)
Disaster Prevention Team organized Disaster Prevention Game at Takahagi Industrial Recovery Festival
On Nov. 16, 17, the Disaster Prevention Team participated in the Takahagi Industrial Recovery Festival held in Takahagi-shi, Ibaraki Prefecture, and organized a disaster prevention game on a slope.
By conducting the game on a slope that would be the evacuation route at a time of an earthquake, it would increase the sense of awareness for disaster prevention.
At the signal to start, the participants climbed the slope, and at 2 points on the slope scattered were small articles from which they had to pick up goods necessary for evacuation and run up to the goal. Adults and children both carefully chose the disaster prevention goods and energetically ran up the slope. A disaster prevention map of the Takahagi station area created by the disaster prevention team was also handed out to the participants in preparation for a disaster. The booklet will be distributed by Takahagi City Office as a support item for the citizens to help themselves in case of a disaster. (Iida)
(日本語) 予告 創造的復興：カタストロフィーと芸術−11月22日(金)
At the next Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art, 2 lecturers will be invited. The names of the lecturers and their lecture themes are as follows:
6th Period: Eriko Kogo, Associate Professor, Waseda University, “Disasters & Picture Postcards”
7th Period: Shuji Tanaka, Associate Professor, Oita University, “Catastrophe & Monuments”
Venue: Tsukuba University, 5C416
Date & Time: Nov. 22, Friday. 6th Period, 16:45-18:00, 7th Period, 18:15-19:30
*The class extends over 2 periods. Please come as anyone can take part.
(Hashimoto)
Itako City Hinode Elementary and Middle Schools Joint Workshop
On Oct. 31, the Itako team carried out a Halloween event, “Workshop: Making masks with paper bags”, for the 4th graders of Itako City Hinode Elementary School in Ibaraki Prefecture.
The elementary school children full of energy made their original masks with paper bags, and they will be photographed with their masks on. The art club students at Hinode Middle School, who had done the workshop in August, also came with the CR students to help the elementary school children.
The Itako team’s theme is to strengthen the ties among the new residential areas, an issue that was revealed after the earthquake, and is planning on workshops that join together the elementary and middle schools, which are the region’s educational centers. Scenes from this workshop were shown at Hinode Middle School Festival on Nov. 9, and drew the attention of middle school students as well as the parents and elementary school children who came to the event. (Iida)
Yui Team: Exhibition is on!
An exhibition showing the fruits of the “Yui Team Project” is currently being held. Scenes from the launch of the project to the preparations and of the workshops held 4 times in September are on display. “Yui’s pottery works” made by the participants are also on display. Please come and see them. (Hashimoto)
Date & Time: Nov. 9 (Saturday) to Nov. 22 (Friday), 9:00-18:00
Venue: 6A Entrance Gallery
【FUKUSHIMA VOICE】Carried out a rush meeting.
On Nov. 9, the members of the FUKUSHIMA VOICE got together for a rush meeting.
We watched the rush edited down by the director, Mr. Shimada, to approximately 2 hrs from the enormous amount of recorded images, and then expressed our thoughts and discussed the various factors. Seeing the edited movie for the first time since the filming camp and looking back on the shootings, many large obstacles in creating a piece of work were revealed. From here on, every single one of us will convey and talk about one’s thoughts on the direction of the film and attempt to produce a good piece of work. The premiere is planned for February next year! (Hashimoto)
