This is a workshop to experience with children how prayerful things disappear, like the origin of music itself.
Musicians will join participants in a performance using earthenware instruments made by the children. At the end, the instruments will be returned to the earth. This is an act of giving back something intangible to Mother Earth, like a gift.
With thoughts of the legend passed down in Tadao, we would like to offer up the sounds we make now, and encourage participants to feel that each of us today plays a part within the wider flow of time that will carry on for the next 500 years.

1. We ask participants to pick up materials (terracotta) from the headquarters of Toukoukai (social welfare corporation). We will be handing over the materials on weekdays between Monday, July 27 and Friday, August 7, 9:00 – 17:00.
2. Each participant will make a earthenware item by watching the instructor’s lecture videos. (URL details for lecture videos will be sent out from Saturday, August 1 to the e-mail address supplied with your application. We recommend participants mold their items by Sunday, August 23, due to the drying time needed).
3. Please inform us by e-mail of the date and time you are bringing your earthenware items in, and bring the finished items to Ryoudenji Temple.
   Item receival dates: Sunday, August 30, Monday August 31 10:00 – 16:00 (both dates)
   Place: 2-5-33 Tadao, Machida City, Tokyo
   Contact e-mail address: info@yato500.net
4. Participants will give a performance together with musicians, using earthenware instruments they have made, after which the instruments will be returned to the earth.
   (Schedule: Saturday, September 19, 2020 from 13:00

*Lectures videos can be seen via restricted YouTube access. There is no designated time or date for viewing
*Children may also take part in the performance taking place on Saturday, September 19. We will send details to the e-mail address supplied with your application. However, coronavirus-related social measures may make gatherings impossible, in which case we will make changes to program implementation methods and details, with musicians alone being responsible for the performance.
*We plan to use sounds and music recorded during this workshop for the live streaming of the YATO Summer Fair (Tuesday (public holiday), September 22).

Elementary school students (those able to come and collect their materials from a designated place in Tadao, Machida City, Tokyo by Friday, August 7, 2020).

10 people (First-come-first-served basis)

Free

Please fill in the necessary items in the application form here and submit.
*Your personal information will be handled as strictly confidential, and used only to send you information from the organizer about this event.

Application deadline
Friday, August 7 2020, 16:00

KOBAN (a.k.a COINN)
http://www.coinn.jp/

Project YATO Office
E-mail：info@yato500.net