Make it! Akigawa Art Stream 2025
Business Overview
This site-specific art festival is held in the Akikawa Valley (Hinohara Village and Akiruno City), the headwaters of Tokyo, where you can appreciate works of contemporary art and media art, as well as experience local resources in culture. A variety of programs were developed throughout the watershed, consisting of more than 40 "regional cultural experience contents," including "exhibitions" where visitors can appreciate the scenery and environment, including works created while staying in the deep mountain valley, and "regional cultural experience contents," including related projects such as knowledge of wild animals, tea making, eating works, and live concerts. Based on the theme of "Make it!" local cultural experience contents are planned and produced by local residents utilizing their through workshops, and are characterized by co-creative regional development through such art projects.
[Exhibitors] Sachiko Kodama, Shishiyamazaki, Satoshi Adachi, Kyoki Sugaya, Fumi Tsugawa, Shozo Tomonaga
[Staying artists] Mikbayashi Tokyo, Ryunosuke Kamijo, Yoichi Ochiai
[Director] Tomohiro Okada
- Period of Activity / Project
- "Art Festival Period" Saturday, November 22, 2025 - Saturday, January 31, 2026
"Core Exhibition Period" Saturday, November 22, 2025 - Monday, December 15 - Venues
- Arts Camp Hinohara (Hinohara Village), Gallery Yamabiko (Hinohara Village), Village Hinohara (Hinohara Village), Small storehouse (Akiruno City), Flare Itsukaichi (Akiruno City)
Profile
[General Incorporated Association Creative Cluster]
With the aim of contributing to the creation of a world in which everyone can exercise their creativity by supporting the social implementation of new expressions and talents that arise with the times, Creative Cluster was launched in 2002 by director Tomohiro Okada, who has been introducing new expressions and cultural environments through multimedia and the Internet to Japan since his teens. It has contributed to the creation of creative regions both in Japan and abroad by holding independent international events, "Art Demo" and exhibitions, "Fantasista" series, mainly in Tokyo and Yokohama, that introduce technological art and interactive design, which were new fields of expression at the time, and the social implementation of creative urbanization. It also cooperated in the direction of regional exhibitions of the Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival in Ishigaki Island and Hokkaido. Since 2002, he has been working in the Akikawa Valley (Hinohara Village and Akiruno City), the headwaters of Tokyo, and has been sponsoring and producing “Akigawa Art Stream, ” a project-type platform where local residents, artists, and related people can co-create.