From October 25th to November 3rd, 1997
Exhibition by Yanaka Kaki tree Network + 『Revive Time』 Kaki Tree Project Executive Committee
The first exhibition that was organized by Executive Committee was held at Gallery CASA, Tokyo. The exhibition was intended to make people feel that every action that taken by any participants were Art by introducing the project with photographs, posters, works from where planted Kaki trees. And we exhibited kaki tree in the pot and made the room like Japanese living room to let regional people go into the room. And they recruited who would like to plant kaki trees.
Ms. Akiko Shiibara and Ms. Hiroko Kato were formed Yanaka Kaki Tree Network and participated this exhibition. They held workshop two times with Hike and Kazuyuki Hanada for propellant planting kaki tree at their local region. The first workshop was held in October 4th at the venue. It was for the children who were not attend the school yet. They made paintings and play. In the play, Mrs. Hike Hanada played a kaki tree role while Mr. Kazuyuki told the story of an atomic bomb. Children drubbed the ground to make a sound of the rain with saying “We got to save the kaki tree! ”. And the fruits that will be a kaki tree in the future were bearded. At last of this workshop, they expressed their feelings by painting in watercolors.
The second workshop, which let children to make drawings with their whole body, was held in October 19th at Imoazaizaka Park for the elementary school students. After listening to the story of kaki trees, they posed with their arms spread like they became kaki trees. Then they laid down on the huge papers, and others traced outline of their body with Japanese ink to draw Human’s tree. Those artworks displayed at exhibition. And finally, they make planting kaki trees at the community center of Yanaka came true in 1998.
