Project summary
Sector: Reconstruction - Japan
Country location: Japan
Grantee: Crossroad Arts
Project Description
Three artists from the Australian community arts company Crossroad Arts will collaborate with artists from Able Arts Japan, Tanpopo and disability participants from the Polaris corporation in Yamamoto-cho in two weeks of dance, theatre and photography workshops, leading to a public art event on 4 and 10 December celebrating the opening of the Japanese Rail Joban Line Station in Yamamoto-cho which was destroyed in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
The project called Gama is named after the plant that grows around the Elementary School in Yamamoto-cho. The project is aimed at re-engaging and re-energising the people of Yamamoto-cho in celebrating their resilience and capacity to imagine and create profound works of art following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Australian deaf blind photographer Brenden Borellini will facilitate Japanese blind participants in the art of landscape photography and the creation of 3D tactile photographs. Dancer Dougal McLauchlan and Director Steve Mayer-Miller will lead workshops in dance, music and theatre.
Steve Mayer-Miller will create a short documentary film of the project.
Key dates:
Multi Art Workshops, Polaris Yamamoto-cho, 29 November 2016 to 03 December 2016
Pre-Opening event for JR Station, Yamamoto-cho, 4 December 2016
Photographic Workshops, Sendai and Yamamoto-cho, 5-9 December 2016
Official Opening of JR Station, Yamamoto cho, 10 December 2016
Social media: http://www.ableart.org http://tanpoponoye.org/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/ããã½ã½ã®å®¶/523644954338985
Australia-Japan Foundation grant offer: $20,000.00 with GST in addition
Total project value: $33,800.00