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At the 2016 art-festival more than 45 artists from 8 countries took part, donating their artwork for the good cause of helping the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami catastrophe in Northwest-Japan. Half the proceeds of the 2016 event also was donated to the Kumamoto area where about 3 weeks before the event a large earthquake struck damaging the famous Kumamoto castle and many homes. We could sell a large amount of the donated artworks and together with the proceeds of the Opening Party/Concert and after-event sales we could collect
315910 Yen !!
157900 Yen were donated on July 2nd, 2016 to
JEN (NGO) to support children´s projects in the Touhoku area in North Japan
More info here:
http://www.jen-npo.org/en/
The remaining half, 158010 Yen, was donated to the City of Kumamoto earthquake catastrope fund:
The 2016 event was very successful with the highest raised donations since holding the first event in 2011 !!! We also appeared in 2 local newspapers:
Yomiuri Newspaper, 2016/4/21
Chuugoku Newspaper, 2016/4/25
We´d like to thank everybody whose donations and support made this event possible: The artists, the buyers and donators, SEED Art-Laboratory Hiroshima, Fujiya Company Hiroshima and all volunteer helpers before and during the event !!!
6th Yokogawa-Art-Charity-Festival
Sat / Sun, APRIL 23/24th, 2016
Sat, APRIL 23th, 18:00
CHARITY LIVE CONCERT - OPENING PARTY
Fundraising opening- party for the victims of the 2011 Tsunami catastrophe.
Doors open 6 pm
Live Concert starts at 7 pm
19:00 Tomoko Kihara (Koto) http://tomokoto-music-st.jimdo.com/
20:30 Dude and the Johnsons
Entry fee: 1000 Yen (=donation)
German beer and wine, food, softdrinks
100% of the party proceeds will be donated !!!
Hope to see you all there,
Stephan
You will also of course have a chance to buy the exhibited artworks for the good cause.
Googlemap-Link to the venue:
http://goo.gl/maps/XvZWi
The main event will be the following day, Sunday, April 24th from 10:00 to 16:00, as part of the Yokogawa Fushigiichi-festivals.
With friendly support of Fujiya company Hiroshima.
6th Yokogawa-Art-Charity-Festival
Sun, APRIL 24th, 10:00 - 16:00
Fundraising exhibition and sales for the victims of the 2011 Tsunami catastrophe.
LIVE-Portraits, Photography, Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, Accessories, postcards,…..
Charity – Art – Exhibition and sales from 10:00 to 16:00 as part of the Fushigi-ichi festival´s around Yokogawa station on Sunday, April 24 th.
The entry is free of charge (donations welcome!)
The donated artworks will be exhibited and sold and 100% of the proceeds will be donated.
Please come, see and buy/donate !! And please bring your friends and family along. The surrounding matsuri is also worth going, with the Cosplay-Parade, 5 Live stages, food and drinks.
GOOGLE-Link to the venue:
http://goo.gl/maps/XvZWi
Website Fushigi-ichi festival:
http://wondercarnival.web.fc2.com/fushigi/indexf.html
The Event:
6th Yokogawa-International-Art-Charity-Festival 2016
In cooperation with SEED Art Laboratory Hiroshima
Purpose: Fundraising for the victims in the affected areas of the 3/11/2011 earthquake and tsunami catastrophe in Japan.
Date: 23./24. April 2016
Place: SEED Art Laboratory ,Yokogawa, Hiroshima, Japan
Time: April 23th: OPENING PARTY with concert from 18:00
April 24th: Exhibition and Sales from 10:00 to 16:00
Entry fee: Opening Party with Live music: 1000 Yen
April 24th:0 Yen (donations welcome)
Selling price of the works: 1000-10000 Yen
Deadline to confirm participation: April/01/2016
Deadline for submitting artworks: April/15/2016
If you have any questions, please contact Stephan at stephan@yokogawa-art.org
About your works:
Any kind of artwork, design or crafted items will be accepted.
Artworks adressing the topic/problem of Fukushima, radiation or nuclear power are
VERY WELCOME !!!
( In our experience smaller artworks, paintings, photos and handcrafted accessories are better to sell over here in Japan )
Delivery:
Artwork delivery is usually by post (please keep in mind the shipping times from your country to Japan) or FREE digital upload and FREE printout (up to size A3).
In case you don´t deliver personally to SEED, you must pay the delivery costs on your own expenses.
Digital works can be uploaded and printed up to A3 size for free
(Upload information will follow after receiving your application).
Smaller digital works, e.g. postcards, can also be multiplied and printed in 10 or 20 prints.
The artist decides the selling price. If there´s not such an information the organisers will do.
Submitted artworks cannot be sent back !!! (Although there´s a possibility to do so, if the shipping costs will be paid by the artist)
How to take part:
Until April 1st , 2016 by mail to stephan@yokogawa-art.org (English, German, Japanese) or Maehara Sensei from SEED (Japanese, English), maehara@seed-art.com
Please include basic information like: name, nationality, no. of works, material, selling price.
In case of digital works please state, if we can sell more than one copy and if, up to how many.
By taking taking part the artist agrees to donate his/her artwork for sale on the event or afterwards (sales price will be fully donated), and also gives the permission to use the artists name and pictures of the artwork on this website and social network websites like Facebook for promotion and information of the event.
Selling price of the works: 1000-10000 Yen
Deadline to confirm participation: April/01/2016
Deadline for submitting artworks: April/15/2016
Informations about past events you can find on this website.
