We are forming a “support band” to come and go between Tokyo and Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture between July, 2019 and March, 2020.Band members will spend time listening to residents, talking and practicing, and then perform together with the residents’ choral group (to be solicited at the housing complex) at events in the Shimo-Kajiro Housing Complex. Specifically, there will be a first meeting of members in Tokyo in late July, and then the group will make their first visit to the housing complex in August. Thereafter, the band will practice once a month at a studio in Tokyo and its first performance is scheduled to be at a December Christmas event held in a communal gathering place at the complex. We will explain the process in detail at the interview.

• People who have some experience playing guitar, bass, keyboards, wind instruments etc. (regardless of skill level)
• People able to make multiple trips (about three one-night/two-day trips scheduled) to the disaster-recovery public housing complex in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture from now up until March, 2020
• People able to practice on a regular basis at a studio in Tokyo
  (one three-hour session scheduled per month over six months, mainly on weekday nights but also Saturdays/Sundays)
• People interested in nostalgic songs
• Open to any age and gender

People able to attend an interview in Tokyo on Monday, July 15 (public holiday)

Other

• Transportation costs to the Shimo-Kajiro Housing Complex and the cost of the Tokyo studio will be borne by the organizers (details will be explained at the time of the interview). Participants are responsible for paying for meals.
• Accommodation for visits to the Shimo-Kajiro Housing Complex will be in a private home.
• Selected participants will attend a first meeting with each other in late July in Tokyo.
• Some of this project will be filmed by video artist Haruka Komori and footage may subsequently be used for a documentary film or video work.

About 4 per instrument

Please full out this form.

Application deadline
Sunday, July 7 2019, 23:59

• Applicants should bring their instrument to an interview to be conducted on Monday (public holiday), July 15 in Arts Council Tokyo ROOM302 (3331 Arts Chiyoda 3F, 6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
• Documents will only be screened in advance if there are a large number of applicants.
• All applicants will be notified by late July regardless of selection results.

Project Coordination Division,
Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
TEL: 03-6256-8435(Weekday 10:00-18:00)
E-mail: tarl@artscouncil-tokyo.jp