Earthquake Support Event: WE ARE HERE – Little voice and art 311 Japan (NYC)
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Posted at the request of CLAIR New York:
WE ARE HERE – Little voice and art 311 JAPAN is an exhibition of messages from Japanese children of areas affected by the disaster as well as photos of the area. The exhibition is being held at the AIGA Gallery in New York on 22nd St and 5th Avenue in Manhattan from today through May 20. They are also collecting messages from visitors to those children.
Assistance project for East Japan Disaster
WE ARE HERE – Little voice and art 311 JAPAN
3.11, 2011 PM 2:46:18
The disastrous earthquake and the nuclear threat that we had never experienced in the history inflicted a deep wound on the Japanese society and our mind. Under the circumstances, we focus on the children about to take their first step, and a photographer. The exhibition “Global Message Relay” will deliver a document of our life and society in devastation worldwide. through the linked heart and energy of children and the photographer, with our sincere request for your social and psychological support.
■ schedule
May 16th 11:00 – 17:00 (18:00 – 20:00 Reception)
17th 11:00 – 18:00
18th 11:00 – 18:00
19th 11:00 – 18:00
20th 11:00 – 15:00
■place AIGA Gallery
164 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
■contents
1. Global Message Relay
There are many children who tend to become greatly ill because of the unprecedented disaster experiences. With hope to ease as much as possible worries and feelings of such children’s minds by free expression with pictures and words and at the same time to show the world the real situation where the children are placed, I visited schools and refugees in the areas suffering from various types disasters such as the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident and asked the children to draw pictures and write messages on Japanese paper with the theme of “words that they want to express and tomorrow that they want to draw.”
2. Photo exhibition
“The Day and After – Memory of ONAGAWA”
The photo exhibition by Mayumi Suzuki, the daughter of Sasaki Photo Studio located in Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture where is enormously suffered from tsunami. Her father has not found since the earthquake. Suzuki succeeded her father as photographer and photographs the devastating sceneries and the process of rehabilitation of Onagawa.
50 to 100 photographs will be selected for this exhibition.
*All donations will go to the disaster relief in Japan through “HOPE OF CHILDREN”
*This exhibition will travel to Taipei, Paris, or any other countries in future.
Produce Hug Japan
Producer Satoshi Nakagawa (CEO, tripod Design Co.LTD)
Sponsor Benesse Corporation “Assist Children’s Future Project”
The Hug Japan Project is a nonprofit social-design initiative that, based on the concept of universal design, aims to provide solid, long-term support to all people affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. By creating a network not just within Japan but across the globe, the project aims to provide ongoing assistance through creative and practical works, such as art and design. In this way, we hope to support the future of all cities and people affected while respecting the value of each person who was impacted by the natural disaster.
Chief Originator Satoshi Nakagawa (CEO, tripod Design Co.LTD)
Co Originator Kazunari Matoba (Corporate Senior Vice President of Benesse Corporation, General Manager of Assist Children’s Future Project)
Planning, Administration Benesse Corporation “Assist Children’s Future Project”
tripod Design Co,LTD
Web : http://hugjapan.jp
Mail : info@hugjapan.jp
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