Category: Planting Ceremony

Terni is the central city of Terni prefecture in Umbria state where has beautiful scenery of greens at Middle of Italy. “Gli altri siamo Noi” is the organization which intends children for educational activities about peace, charity and human rights, formed in 1998 by young people. One of the organizations saw the exhibition at Venice Biennale and applied for planting. According to that, Ms.Valeria Della Croce, a member of “Gli altri siamo Noi” encouraged the city government to support the project. As the result, it was decided to plant kaki trees at public elementary school. Until the ceremony, students created many drawings and sculptures about kaki trees, peace, and the… Read more »

A member of Columbus Arts Council saw the exhibition at Venice Biennale and applied for planting. The Columbus Arts Council has been developing the program, ”Children of the Future”, which is for children who are not given enough education. The members decided to let them participate planting as a part of the program. This town became the first town that plants kaki trees in U.S. There are many Japanese people living in this town. They created Ikebana and origami with showing how to create it, and held Japanese style dinner with sushi. In addition to that, Some Americans played Japanese drums. In 28th March 2001, The Birthday Party for Kaki… Read more »

In the city, Trevignano Romano, there are many foreigners from different countries. Since they are curious about each other’s culture, the city government established national days for international exchanges. Mr.Giuliano Nencini, who was in charge for culture in the city office, applied for planting kaki trees. And Ms.Shihomi Kishida, a Japanese women who lives in Trevignano Romano and her family organized ceremony, The day of planting ceremony was regarded as Japan day. About 300 people including students and their parents planted trees at the front yard of junior high school in the city centre. Although it had been raining so hard, the sun came up just before the ceremony. The… Read more »

Cesenatico is the located by the Adriatic Sea in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ADDA, an organization formed by foreign women who acts for cultural exchange in Cesenatico, proposed for planting kaki trees. The project started with searching participants or place to plant. It finally formed the Executive Committee which consisted by teachers or artists. A lot of citizens, including the city mayor attended the ceremony at the park because of member’s effort. Children read poems from different languages by the overture by Ms. Olga Nawacow. And flew the orange balloons. Following the planting trees, a sculpture of Bombed Kaki Tree Jr. by Mr.Giovanni Pintole was revealed. In addition, the works by Ms…. Read more »

This planting project was realized by the Comune di Carpi and the Rotary Club Carpi. Carpi city is one of few cities where there were prison camps during the World War II. There is still the site of the camp in the suburb and still a revival plan of the site is undergoing. In the center of the town, close to the planting site, there is a museum, which shows the history of Nazism and memories of the victims by the Fascism. Citizens in Carpi are highly conscious for the peace, therefore more than 400 people such as 200 students from the Instituto Musicale a Tonelli (Toneli Music Institute) and… Read more »

Ireland is the country where there is a conflict between Catholic and Protestant. However as the first time, three schools from two different religions participated in the planting ceremony. Ms. Sharon Corcoran, who took an initiative to realize the planting, was touched by this fact. Educational programs at Tinahely Courthouse centre are complete so that the theatre group who played for the planting ceremony are quite professional. They even tour actively in several cities. Ms. Magie Gallogher wrote an original script on Kaki tree. They played a story of the second generation of atomic bombed Kaki tree by including “Noh” movements. In the end of the play, actors sang an… Read more »

Debeli Rtic, Redcross is located on a hill facing the Adriatic Sea. Ms. Nada Kim Spolar, organizer of the workshops for refugees from Kosovo and children at the SEZAM association for parents and children, cooperated with Red cross to realize Kaki planting. Mr. Jakov Brdar, sculptor, Mr.Tomo Vran, painter and musicians participated in the ceremony. Elementary school students from Anton Ukmar Elementary School presented an installation titled “scarecrow exorcising an evil”, performace or radio broadcasting, On the beach, children made a drawing of a peaceful city with colored stones. They also sent a painting work “A Prayer for Life” as a gift to the executive committee in Japan.

Ms.Nada Kim Spolar, organizer of the SEZAM association for Parents and Children realized Kaki Planting at Anton Ukmar Elementary school, which is close to the Debeli Rtič, Red Cross. Workshops were organized in corporation with Debeli Rtic. After the description of the project, there was a violin play and some children represented to plant the Kaki tree. Accompanied by a guitar play, children walked around with singing, hands in hands. They made stone objects and sent to the Kaki tree executive committee as gift. This object is one of the twin and the other one stays in Slovenia. Participants received each painted stone from the basket at the site. Teachers… Read more »

Mr. Dulio Zogno, artist from Brescia, have longed for planting of Kaki tree, since he encountered a child of atomic bombed kaki tree at Japan pavilion in Venice biennale in 1999. He was so enthousiastic that he asked several time to the Instituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma how to realize. He proposed to the city of Brescia, an art studio, photographer Flavio Bonetti, artists’ group “Grafo”, architects Paola Visano and Bernard Vecchi, as well as to the youth section of the city’s education board to have a local executive committee to realize the planting. They planted the tree at St Gulia Museum, which had once been used as a… Read more »

The site of Chiesa Vecchia di San Giovanni (Ex San Giovanni church), which was a church of the middle age, is a located in a small village on a hill with a view of small lakes in Varese area. Ms. Anniva Anzi, president of Parents Teacher Association at the Manzoni Elementary School, encountered children of the atomic bombed Kaki tree at the Japan pavilion in Venice Biennale and was so impressed that she took children to the pavilion for a school’s excursion, and started an activity to invite local eledery people to talk about the war for the children. The planting ceremony was accompanied with several workshops, such as an… Read more »

Children at F.P.Cordenons Middle High School participated in a workshop by Michele Drascek and became fun of Kaki tree. As a result, with a strong recommendation by the children and Ms. Montella Marina, teacher at the school who wanted children to think about the importance of the world’s peace by taking Kaki tree as a symbol, Santa Maria di Sala city applied for Kaki tree planting. They planted two Kaki trees in the yard of F.P.Cordenons Middle High School. If both trees grow well, one of two will be planted in Rodari City Park. Rodari Park is very familiar to the junior and senior citizens. A lot of people including… Read more »

In March 2000, Kaki tree was planted in “B.Galuppi” di Burano, a public farm in the island Scarpa-volo Mazzorbo, which is located in Adrian Sea, 30min ship distance from Venice. The planting site was in the grape field in the farm. It was a big planting ceremony with 450 students from 9 elementary schools around Venice. It was realized with a few teaches from Venice who visited Japan pavilion in the biennale. Ms.Laura Biondi was one of them and took an initiative. Mr. Giogio Mastinu organized a kite-flying, Ms. Biondi and Ms. Ritsue Mishima learnt children Origami and coloriage. In a large farm, many workshop programs were organized such as… Read more »

In 1998, Ms. Miho Cibot who was living in Paris and presides the Nagasaki Hiroshima hydrogen bomb research institution sympathized with the kaki tree project and applied for planting kaki trees. With some bumps and detours, it’s decided to plant kaki trees in Anger and Epinay and two baby trees were planted at side of Epinay National Stadium. Posters of the project were put at the venue and the workshop in that participants folded cranes with origami was held at city festival. Unfortunately, on that day, NATO started airstrikes to Kosovo. Children fold cranes with pray for the world peace.

Bordeaux is famous for wine. When a kaki tree were planted in Bordeaux, there was strange nameplate was on that kaki tree. It said, “spare” because Ms. Chantal Rusell Le Roux, who is an artist working with her theme, nature, brought back a kaki tree which was a backup for the exhibition, “Donai Yanen! Et maintenant!” at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in French, and planted it. They organized a festival, “KAKI TIME” with their friend and children in October. With so many events, performance, pray, workshop, concert and they even made T-shirts for that, many people enjoyed it. Thus, a kaki tree used to be a backup belongs to… Read more »

Akabane Nature Park in the Kita district of Tokyo is the site of a former military factory. Utilizing a piece of land with that sort of history, the Kita district took a unique approach by having local residents participate in creating the park. In 1996, when second-generation persimmon trees from World War II atomic bombings were first exhibited (“Water Ripples ‘95” Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Sept 2– Oct 1), and the Kita district learned that they were up for adoption, the trees were gladly afforded space in the park. The park was completed in 1999. So three years after the offer was made, the planting of the trees finally… Read more »

Mr. Rodriguez who was born in Canaria Islands saw the website of the Kaki Tree Project and send a letter.“However I live in London now, I want to have kaki trees in my hometown, Canaria.”After that, the number of people who support for kaki tree project increased by his effort. And finally, it is decided to hold the planting ceremony as an city event. Thus, in 3rd March 1999 the kaki tree were planted at Finca de Osorio. Over the generation, both children and adults participated to plant trees with holding shovels. The artists held the two workshops. Mr. Jose Luis Lusardo made a big drawing of kaki tree with… Read more »