In recent years, the environment surrounding us has become increasingly harsh. Both children and adults do their best to get through each day, often without the time or physical strength to do so.
Perhaps we also lack the opportunity to talk at length with others and get caught up in our own thoughts before we know it.
If we had occasion to experience a slightly different world than usual, take the weight off our shoulders, and broaden our horizons, it might provide an opportunity to relax our thoughts and feelings, as well as our relationships with people.
We would like the program “Thinking about “care” and “the self” through stories: Workshop Series and Platform for Dialog” to provide time and opportunity for us to apply a variety of methods to discussing and thinking about stories and poems together with program instructors, guests, and participants.
The program themes are “care” and “the self.”
Why not join us?
In a series of workshops, we will use stories, poetry, and theatrical techniques to create opportunities to reconsider “care” and “the self” with participants. Experiencing stories and poetry in diverse forms will encourage us to see things as well as ourselves from a different angle than usual.
Why not join us in considering these things, mobilizing mind and body together with fellow participants?
Dates
-8 sessions in total
Each session 10:00 – 12:30
2024
Saturday, October 5/Saturday October 12
Saturday, November 9 / Sunday, November 17
Sunday, December 15
2025
Saturday, January 11/ Sunday, January 19
Saturday, February 8
*Please try to attend all workshops if possible (if this is difficult, please let us know when you apply)
Venue
Kankyo gakushukan (October 5, October 12)
*Kankyo gakushukan: 3-2-16 Nukuiminamicho, Koganei, Tokyo (15minutes walk from JR Musashi-koganei station)
*All other sessions will be held at facilities in Koganei. Details to be provided to applicants.
Program details/featured stories and poems (planned)
Each session will feature one or two stories and poems.
Ainu folktale “Susupetchitchi susuperanran”
Uyghur folktale “Who Ate the Sheep?” (The Grimm Brothers’ “Clever Elsie”)
Anne Herbauts “Le petit souci”
Irina Grigore “Gentle Hell”
In the Platform for Dialog sessions, we will use guests’ narratives, videos, stories, etc. as the starting point for generating opportunities for group discussion, thought, and experimentation. Exploring what lies behind the word “care” and its mechanism may provide an opportunity to reexamine the different faces of care and where we ourselves fit into these, as well as to open up a new approach to care.
*Each Platform for Dialog sessions will feature a different guest.
Dates
Each session 19:00 – 20:30 (20:30 – 21:00 will be a time for reflection)
*After the session ends at 20:30, there will be a voluntary extra “time for reflection” session at the venue until 21:00 or so, allowing participants to share their insights, thoughts, and impressions of the day.
2024
Friday, October 18 / Friday, November 8 / Friday, December 6
2025
Friday, January 31 / Friday, February 14
Venue
KOGANEI ART SPOT Chateau2F
Chateau Koganei 6-5-3 Honmachi, Koganei City, Tokyo（5minutes walk from JR Musashi-koganei station)
Details/guests
2024
Friday, October 18 Yoko Funazaki: Video viewing and discussion of the Kotobuki “Tegami” Project
Friday, November 8 Kayoko Yamasaki: Workshop – When playing becomes life – poetry workshop
Friday, December 6 Katsunori Shinzawa: “Onaji tsuki wo miagete: Harmony de deatta hito tachi” (Looking up at the same moon: the people I met at Harmony*)
(*A support facility for people with disabilities) Taking time to talk while playing “Delusion, Auditory hallucination Karuta” card games
2025
Friday, January 31 Rina: Expressing thoughts through photography
Friday, February 14 Irina Grigore: Selected reading from “Gentle Hell”
*Participants can attend one or more of these sessions.
*Guests may participate online (via Zoom, etc.)
1)Thinking about “care” and “the self” through stories: Workshop Series
*In addition to instructors, some sessions will also feature guests.
Setsu Hanasaki
2)Thinking about “care” and “the self” through stories: Platform for Dialog
Yoko Funazaki
Kayoko Yamasaki
Katsunori Shinzawa
Rina
Irina Grigore
People who would like to discuss and think about “care” and “the self” with instructors and fellow program participants.
Free
15 people per program
Please apply via the application form or from FAX.
1. Application form
https://forms.gle/RD6nLJUNw97XejBN6
2.FAX
If applying by FAX, please include your
(1)Name
(2)Email address
(3)Preferred program (please choose one)
(5)Reason for applying
(6)Any concerns about participating or anything you would like to tell the organizers or instructors. (Optional response)
Send to FAX: 050-3627-7236
Application deadline
Workshop Series: Within Friday, September 20, 2024
Platform for Dialog: Until 10:00 on program date
Artfull Action(NPO)
KOGANEI ART SPOT Chateau 2F, Chateau Koganei 6-5-3 Honmachi, Koganei City, Tokyo 184-0004
E-mail: mail@artfullaction.net
FAX: 042-316-7236
October, 2024 – February, 2025
Koganei Kankyo gakushukan, KOGANEI ART SPOT Chateau 2F, etc.
