ART PROJECT IN YASHIMA
2013年01月25日
The Yashima area has taken a business/art initiative to promote artists and artisans in the area with Yashima as the central theme.
The Seto Inland Sea Triennale will be here in the summer, and given the runaway success of the first event in 2010, we expect this one to be even bigger and more popular.
http://setouchi-artfest.jp/en/
I covered it in 2010 for the city’s art pages and wrote it up for some foreign media, and I’m looking forward to the same privilege with my pal Cathy Hirano (Cathy’s blog) http://cathy.ashita-sanuki.jp/e273179.html this year too.
We had a lot of fun in the summer of 2010
The current movement in Yashima is a kind of warm-up event and a group of the residents started projects such as ‘Yashima souvenirs’ all designed with Mt. Yashima & the Inland Sea as direct motifs or the mountain as an abstract theme for many of the articles themselves.
The art goods are all now available in the Kitahama Alley area of the Takamatsu Port.
http://www.kitahama-alley.jp
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/sightseeing/eats/kitahama-alley.html
If you check through my past blog 2010/7/29, you’ll find the one on this remarkable old part of town. Now gentrified and at the same time keeping the atmosphere and ambience of the past. It’s a special place in Takamatsu.
http://pat.ashita-sanuki.jp/d2010-07.html
Another group involved with the project is from Kagawa University. They’ll hold coffee shops and concerts for the festival in the summer.
Another feature will be night tours of Yashima, and if you’re travelling to Japan then Takamatsu should be on the itinerary as we’re easy to access by train, plane or ferry from Osaka, or anywhere on Honshu (the main island).
The first Yashima night tour will be held on the 26th of July and there will be three in total.
The tours will run from 5:30~9:00 pm and will cost ￥1,000 which will include and ‘obento’ lunch box and this is a reasonable fee indeed ...
Kagawa University can be contacted on this number for information about these tours.
087-832-1000
So I’ll post a few more pictures here of the Kitahama Alley shops and their display of some of the art works available. At the bottom are two links to help you know where we are and what a great place this is to visit.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Takamatsu
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/
See you then and until next month, please stay warm. And remember Spring is coming soon.
"Pat has lived in Takamatsu continuously since arriving here on a one year study and leave 1981. Originally from Tasmania, Australia, he was involved in education at a variety of levels including as a specialist teacher for children with learning difficulties, and at senior high schools throughout the state. Pat is employed full-time by the i-pal Kagawa International Exchange as a co-oridintaor for international relations amongst other duties including traveling to schools and giving talks in Japanese to kids about Australia. He has been involved with youth education exchanges between Japan and Australia for many years.
Pat has been many things in his colorful life including a seaman, helmsman, welder, carpenter, traffic warden, scholarship/studentship winner at the university of Tasmania, staff at the Australian Embassy in London to name but a few. Pat has far too many hobbies which include tennis, playing jazz flutes and saxes, riding bicycles with the Takamatsu Cycling Club all of which his long-suffering family tolerate. Recently he's become interested in painting again. His wife wishes he would put more time in to helping around the house and the garden which he artfully avoids ..."
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