Category: Exhibition & Workshop

Monologue Performance “Wind’s Aria ~Wishes of the Bombed Kaki Tree” Performance by Yoshino Saga Script, Production and Sound by Seigo Yatagai + Artist Anken Kidani Since the planting on 26 February 2007, Artist Anken Kidani has been conducting a workshop at Karako Elementary School in cooperation with Higashi-Matsuyama municipal office. The annual workshop is for the third graders to pass down the stories of “the seedlings of the bombed kaki tree.” This year, a collaborative workshop with Yoshino Saga’s Monologue Performance “Wind’s Aria ~Wishes of the Bombed Kaki Tree” took place. Second and third-grade pupils gathered in the school gymnasium at first, and each class visited the kaki seedlings planted… Read more »

Exhibition Celebrating the Publication of “The Story of the Kaki Tree” Guest Artist Workshop No.3 Let’s Make “Kaki Tree Picture-Card Show” By Anken Kidani Mr. Anken Kidani is a member of the Kaki Tree Project Executive Committee and the creator of the well-known picture-card show “Kaki Tree Parent and Child.” The workshop started with the the picture-card show performance by the artist himself. Then, each participant of the workshop chose a scene and drew that scene to make a picture-card show together. Participants of the workshop ranged in age from kindergarten, elementary school, university to adults. Small children seemed to be a bit nervous before the workshop because they did… Read more »

Exhibition Celebrating the Publication of “The Story of the Kaki Tree” Guest Artist Workshop No.4 “Let’s Draw A Family Portrait! Let’s Draw Peace Just As You Like!” By Sankakuma Guest artist “Sankakuma” is a group of artists based in Kumamoto, which consists of painter, contemporary artist, researcher, curator and art student. Normally, each of them pursues one’s artistic interests in own way, but they joined as a team this time as they agreed with the purpose of the Kaki Tree Project. The workshop’s theme was “Family Bond.” Participating family members were asked to pair up, and look at and draw a portrait each other. The artists made them do so… Read more »

Exhibition Celebrating the Publication of “The Story of the Kaki Tree” Guest Artist Workshop No.2 “Let’s Make Magical Kaki Fruit Together” By Shinichi Yano Mr. Shinichi Yano serves as a director of a general social organization, Children Art Network. He is also an artist who is engaged in research in education through art in many kindergartens. He prepared white cocoon-shape packing materials, sparkling beads and marker pens on the table prior to the workshop. Children first applied color to the cocoon-shape packing materials with marker pens and paints, then they drew shapes on them. They also pasted beads on them with adhesive bond. When they made some of them, Mr…. Read more »

Exhibition Celebrating the Publication of “The Story of the Kaki Tree” Guest Artist Workshop No.1 “DREAMS COME TRUE! ~Let’s Grow Kaki Tree With Our Power ~” By Misa Akiyama Guest artist Misa Akiyama is a member of the Kaki Tree Project Executive Committee and has been working as a printmaking artist. She works with a traditional Japanese woodblock printing technique with water-based inks and creates abstract works with themes such as the passage of time and the history of man. She has also engaged in stage design since 2003 and creates large-scale works, as well. Her workshop started with an explanation of the kaki tree as she showed the just-released… Read more »

The “Revive Time – Kaki Tree Project” head office has a lot of treasures. These are artworks created by people and children around the world for the seedlings of the bombed kaki tree. The exhibition “KAKI STORY 1995-2012 —Kaki Tree’s Journey to Connect and Spread—” held this summer to celebrate the launch of “The Story of the Kaki Tree” invited those works to play the leading role and conveyed aspirations for peace and life energy from around the globe. Even the long-time executive committee members have never seen some of the works. What seemed to be common were that they were created based on “a good understanding of the bombed… Read more »

Workshop by Anken Kidani “Let’s make the background picture – Connect our feelings!” The kaki tree planted on 26 February 2007 at Karako Primary School has produced fruit for the first time this year. Since the planting, the school has been organizing a workshop of the Kaki Tree Project to pass on the stories of the school’s planted kaki tree and it’s now an annual event. On 8 November this year, a workshop by Anken Kidani was held and 61 pupils in the third grade joined. This was the fifth workshop held at the school and first the picture-card show “Kaki Tree Parent and Child” was performed. Then, the workshop… Read more »

The tree planting ceremony was held at Karako Primary School in 2007. Every year a workshop conducted by Anken Kidani is held for pupils to learn about the kaki trees planted in the school ground. A workshop for 3 combined classes was held in cooperation with the municipal office of Higashimatsuyama-City. Pupils learned about the kaki tree, atomic bomb and peace by watching the picture-card show “Kaki Tree Parent and Child” by Mr. Kidani and then they look at the trees in the school ground. Mr. Kidani handed out green and orange papers to the pupils and asked them “to cut out your feelings as if you were the kaki… Read more »

December 22th, 2007 – March 29th, 2008 In conjunction with the tree planting on 26th February 2007 at Karako Primary School and that on 8th of March at Karako Central Park, the exhibition “Life Connecting Tree of Hope – The Kaki Tree Project in Karako” was held from 22nd of December 2007 through 29th of March 2008 at the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels. At the exhibition opening, there were a number of events such as Wadaiko performance, a picture-card show “Persimmon parent and child,” floating origami cranes in toy bamboo leaf boats down a river, reading of “The Garden of Heaven,” a workshop by Mikio Taniguchi from Maruki… Read more »

From November 6th, 2004 to January 10th, 2005 Exhibition by 『Revive Time』 Kaki Tree Project Executive Committee The Hara Museum Arc in Shibukawa City, Gumma Prefecture applied for the project and they also proposed an exhibition since the project is considered a program which has taken a step forward in the community and has a sociality and a universality which are not found in the traditional concept of art exhibitions at a museum. A variety of workshops were proposed by the executive committee members for the exhibition. On the 6th of November, the opening day of the exhibition, two workshops were held for the local children. At the workshop “Let’s… Read more »

From November 3th to December 2th, 2001 Exhibition by Mr. Yoshihisa Nakano + 『Revive Time』 Kaki Tree Project Executive Committee At the Museum of Art, Kochi, the exhibition “Revive Time” Kaki Tree Project in Kochi was held from the 20th of July through the 16th of September, 2001, which was followed by a related exhibition and several workshops until the tree planting ceremony on the 17th of February, 2002. One of the related events were the exhibition “From Dappan (Escape from the Domain) Road to Kaki Tree.” The exhibition displayed works created during the workshop conducted by an artist, Mr. Yoshishisa Nakano. The workshop consisted of two parts: “Dappan Road… Read more »

From July 20th to September 16th, 2001 Exhibition by 『Revive Time』 Kaki Tree Project Executive Committee Since a curator of the museum, Ms. Mio Nagayama expressed a desire for tree planting and also -“Revive Time” Kaki Tree Project in Kochi- was proposed, the exhibition was held at the Museum of Art, Kochi prior to tree planting. The exhibition was organized because the museum wished to spread the network of people. who are involved in “the Kaki Tree”, through the exhibition and workshops, which set the stage for people to think about peace and life. The exhibition consisted of 3 parts, that were “Kaki Tree Project Documentary”, “Connection Collection”? and “Somewhere”…. Read more »

From April 7th to July 8th, 2001 Mr. Jaap Bremer from Kröller Müller Museum visited Japan in July 2000 and informed us that they were keen to participate in the project. Then the official application for the project was delivered and the Kaki Tree Project was invited to the exhibition “Ikiro/Be alive, Contemporary Art from Japan 1980 until Now” at Kröller Müller Museum. Artists such as Lee U-Fan, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Mariko Mori and Tabaimo also participated in the exhibition. The exhibition of the Kaki Tree Project was coordinated by Ms. Angeline Bremer-Cox of the museum. A workshop for about 40 children in the fifth and sixth grades of local Erika?… Read more »

From 16th December, 2000 to 8th April, 2001 Exhibition by 『Revive Time』 Kaki Tree Project Executive Committee Junichi Shiota, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, organized the exhibition “The Gift of Hope” and invited the Kaki Tree Project to join the exhibition . The executive committee member Michiko Nakao took initiative in proceeding with the exhibition plan. They designed a participatory exhibition, wherein a huge persimmon tree was drawn on the central wall of the exhibition space and during the exhibition period visitors made origami persimmon fruits with messages of peace written, and then paste them on the huge tree. At the same time, it introduced the project… Read more »

From 20th July to 10th September, 2000 Exhibition by 『Revive Time』 Kaki Tree Project Executive Committee Echigo-tsumari Art Triennale is an art exhibition held once in every three years that is set in the entire region of Echigo-tsumari. The “Revive Time” Kaki Tree Project introduced its past activities in an old private house in Matudai-machi, which was used as an exhibition site called “Kaki-an.” Since the owner of the house always wanted to make the house a community where local people can gather, so he(she?) has already remodeled it and turned it into a house in good living condition with an open hearth. At a briefing session on the Kaki… Read more »

From 17th June to 1st October, 2000 Tatsuo Miyajima + Leiden Kaki Tree Project Office Leiden is a city located in the southwestern part of the Netherlands and is known as the city associated with Siebold. The Siebold House, which contains his ethnographic items from Japan collected during his life and is open to the public, has been turned into a museum of Japanese art and introduces a wide range of Japanese culture from the Edo period to contemporary art.. The contemporary art exhibition “Voices from JAPAN” was held in the Netherlands to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Japan-Dutch relations. The Kaki Tree Project was invited to the exhibition and… Read more »