Picture Exhibition and Film Festival Connecting Japan, Myanmar, and Italy
: Current Culture and Arts for Persons with Disabilities

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

NPO Tokyo Soteria

subsidy category

Social support through arts and culture

Grant Type

single year

FY 2023 (FY 5) Social Support through Arts and Culture (Phase 1)

A guest from Myanmar speaking at a film festival in Milan, Italy

A recitation play featuring a painting at the symposium

Children's collaborative paintings created at the workshop

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Business Overview

Tokyo Soteria, an NPO that supports people with mental disorders in Edogawa Ward, organized an exhibition of paintings, a talk session and a film festival on World Mental Health Day by inviting directors, performers, and collaborators from the Mental Health Bureau of the Regional Health Union of Bologna, Emilia Romagna, and mental health workers in Myanmar. In September 2019, Tokyo Soteria invited Japanese applicants to participate and held auditions in various parts of the country in order to create a play "Mallah/Sad" by people with disabilities. He began domestic training in May 2020, and in fiscal 2021, he edited footage shot in various locations for each scene to create a single work. This year, in addition to showing these films as part of the festival, we also held a film festival in which we screened films by people with mental disabilities from Myanmar and Italy. At the same time, an exhibition of paintings and workshops were held as an expression activity for the disabled. We planned to hold a talk session to deepen understanding of the background, such as the environment for carrying out expression activities and the situation in the mental health field, instead of just broadcasting expressions unilaterally.

implementation period

Friday, October 6, 2023 -9 (Mon/holiday)

Place of implementation

A YOTSUYA (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
Italian Cultural Hall (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
I.M.F.I. (Istituto per le Materie e Forme Inconsapevoli) (Genoa/Italy)
PIME (Centro dei missionari del Pime) (Milan/Italy)

Profile

[NPO Tokyo Soteria]
Based on the Act on Comprehensive Support for Persons with Disabilities, Tokyo Soteria operates group homes, community activity support centers, type A employment continuity support offices, home help stations, etc. with the aim of creating a society where people with mental disabilities can live in the community. Efforts are also being made to disseminate and educate people about mental disorders, and lectures are being held vigorously.
Various projects such as the Japan-Italy Joint Employment Support Project have been carried out in cooperation with the Mental Health-Addiction Department of Bologna of the Regional Health Union of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.