Open days
Sunday, June 4/Thursday, June 8/ Monday, June 12/Sunday, June 18/Sunday, June 25/Monday, June 26, 2023 11:00 – 17:00

Venue
Gate Studio (5-23-3 Higashimukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo)

Free admission, no reservation required
* For some programs a fee will be charged, and priority given to those with reservations
* Programs are subject to change

Fan Fan director and curator Akira Aoki is currently at university studying for a social welfare qualification. In addition to working on day-to-day matters related to his university course, Aoki will be presenting Fan Fan research exploring the connections between community welfare and art, in the form of a “study room.” Please stop by to enjoy getting your head down for some study or sharing a leisurely exchange of opinion on welfare and art.
The first session on Thursday, June 8 will feature fellow social welfare student Seiji ‘Takakhan’ Takahashi who is based in Kansai and whose activities straddle art and welfare. With Takahashi as Aoki’s study partner, this session will comprise mutual self-study connected via Zoom.

Study partner: Takahashi ‘Takakhan’ Seiji/Seiji Takahashi
Date/time: Thursday, June 8, 2023 11:00 – 17:00
Participation fee: Free (no reservation required)
How to participate: Please come to Gate Studio.
*No online participation

This is an accessible program offering both those who have tried printed with a Risograph (aka RISO) and those who haven’t the chance to print things using this digital printing system. You can create text and pictures, cut and paste magazines and flyers, scan your own items, and much more.
Enjoy textured printing unique to the Risograph!

Date/time: Monday, June 12, 2023 11:00 – 17:00
Participation fee: 500 yen (cash payment on the day) One side A4, 1 type 2 color print
Capacity: N/A *If the event is crowded you may have to wait
How to participate: No reservation required, admission at any time

Other
•You can create one print type and take home three printed sheets. Please note we will keep one copy at Fantasia! Fantasia! Office.
•You can choose from several types of paper available at the event.
•You can choose two out of five colors of ink (black, red, blue, green, yellow)
•You may also bring in material (paper documents). No provision for digital data.
•We would appreciate it if you could give us newspapers, magazines, flyers etc. that are no longer needed which we can use as material.

A workshop for making original notepaper using a Risograph (RISO Duplicator digital printing system). Create and print your own original notepaper in simple procedures anyone can manage such as creating text and pictures, cutting and pasting paper and tape, stamping, etc.

Date/time: Sunday, June 18, 2023 13:00 – 15:00
Participation fee: General 1,000 yen/High school students and below 500 yen (cash payment on the day)
Capacity: 8 (first-come-first-served basis priority, given to those with advance reservations)
How to participate: please use the application form here.

Other
•You can choose paper type and size from those available at the event.
•You can choose two out of five colors of ink (black, red, blue, green, yellow)
•You can print about 30 sheets of notepaper.

Open Meeting: Thinking about how to make Gate Studio open and accessible
Guest: metote-lab “Encountering others beyond language”
Using FanFan’s base Gate Studio as an example, the program for this open meeting involves considering and practising the delivery of information on alternative spaces and the ideal workings of a base, with a variety of visitors to Gate Studio in mind. Our guest for this meeting is a members of metote-lab, a project whose activities revolve around deaf people, the hard-of-hearing and CODA (children of deaf adults) who converse via visual language (Japanese sign language). Our guest will introduce us to the expanding world of visual language and join us in thinking about ways people who use different forms of physical language can meet and interact at Gate Studio.
Facilitators: Akira Aoki (Director, Fan Fan), Yuri Miyazaki (Fan Fan Office)

Guest: metote-lab
Under the concept of generating new communicative methods and artistic expression from the starting point of the self, metote-lab is a laboratory project revolving around deaf people, the hard-of-hearing and CODA (children of deaf adults) who converse via visual language (Japanese sign language). It is aimed at creating a forum (a “home”) for emergence from the starting point of the physical sensibilities and “language” of the individual. Metote-lab members explore individual forms of expression, raising simple questions and conversing with eyes and hands. The initiative explores opportunities for encounters between people with different physical sensibilities and thinking and between people and forms of expression, and also explores approaches to platforms enabling this.
https://note.com/metotelab

Date/time: Sunday, June 25, 2023 14:00 – 15:00
Participation fee: 1,000 yen per person (Payment to be made in cash on the day and to be used for the cost of sign language interpreting)
Capacity: 10 (First-come-first-served basis. Priority given to those with advance reservations)
How to participate: please use the application form here.
Other
Sign language interpreting available

Practice: Thinking about how to make Gate Studio open and accessible
Gate Studio information/guidance creation
Using Fan Fan’s base Gate Studio as an example, the program for this open meeting involves considering and practising the delivery of information for alternative spaces and the ideal workings of a base, with a variety of visitors to Gate Studio in mind. In this event, we think about the issue of Gate Studio’s restroom being on the second floor. People who have difficulty climbing stairs may come to Gate Studio, so we will ascertain whether there are any other restrooms in the area we can direct them to, and check the way to get from the station to Gate Studio, etc. We plan to make the results of this research available on the website and elsewhere.

Date/time: Monday, June 26, 2023 13:00 – 17:00
Participation fee: Free (no reservation required)
How to participate: If you would like to participate, please come to Gate Studio. You can join the event at any time after it starts.

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