What we do

Artist Collective Fuchu [ACF]

This project centering on Fuchu City aims to use expressions in familiar forms and with an everyday outlook to make Fuchu a place where everyone can freely express themselves. Attracting not just artists but participants of diverse occupations and ages, ACF aims to create a forum for individuals to communicate their thoughts and feelings to each other, and to provide an environment enabling respect for each other’s differences.

Venues

Fuchu City

Credit

Organized by
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Artist Collective Fuchu [ACF] (NPO)

Events Information

Raccolta – Creative Material Lab

This program provides a framework for utilizing unwanted parts and fittings provided by local businesses as materials for creative expression. Through artists’ workshops, children and adults engage in creative activities inspired by these materials. The project focuses not only on environmentally conscious recycling, but also on the opportunity to see familiar things from a different perspective. This is a learning project for gaining a new way of looking at things through the perspective of the artist.
*As a project forming part of Fuchu City’s citizens’ proposal-led collaborative project initiative for 2021-2022, we are collaborating with the City Hall’s Cultural Lifelong Learning Division.
https://acf-tokyo.com/raccolta/

Manabart

This is a research program that generates new learning from interviews with various practitioners, in order to help people find their own unique expressions and ideas from daily life. In order to reinforce the initiatives of the new project Raccolta – Creative Material Lab, we asked experts how to handle unwanted commercial parts and fittings (industrial waste etc.).
https://acf-tokyo.com/manabart/

null: free places and arty ideas

The null project is concerned with creating an autonomous cultural and artistic community where different values intermingle. The aim is for people involved in the project to build a foundation based on individual voluntary activity and mutual respect for each other’s activities.
With“null null konekuto” (‘deeply connecting’)as its watchword, organizers aim to expand and spread art-centric, diverse and deep-seated networks between people, between people and places, and between people and ideas.
The program tours around places and areas where ACF has held events and exhibitions; participants are asked to bring something related to a theme, and build on mutual interaction and exchange, discovering common ground with/aspects of each other they didn’t know before, talking about what they think, and what they’re interested in.
https://acf-tokyo.com/null/

Media programs

Based on a network cultivated through activities thus far, the collective creates media channels through which to introduce artists and creative activities in Fuchu City. The belief is that connecting and reconnecting people through media-based programs will not only communicate ACF’s activities but provide a platform for finding human resources to get involved in the Community Salon.

Artist Collective Fuchu presents “Sound Cruise”
ACF brings radio program “Artist Collective Fuchu presents “Oto no fune”” to Radio Fuchues 87.4MHz, a community radio station centering around the Fuchu area. The show introduces guest artists living in Fuchu and the surrounding area, as well as people engaged in projects the collective wants to see brought to Fuchu in future. Guests’ talks concentrate on the topic of creation, Fuchu-related topics, etc.

[Date/time]
1st Tuesday of every month from April 2022 through March 2023, 22:00-22:30.
Dates and times are subject to change. The latest information on changes, cancellations etc. can be found on the ACF Facebook page.
Guests
talk 31 (April 5) Yoshihisa Sato (Representative, JIQSYA)
talk 32 (May 3) Emi Kobayashi (Owner, Marginalia bookstore / Representative of Yohakusha publishing)
talk 33 (June 7) 【tsun】(artist)
talk 34 (July 5) Miyuki Yorita (Manga Artist)

[How to listen to the show]
You can listen to past broadcasts.
– Artist Collective Fuchu [ACF] Official YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJRYFmOXNsgUHXmVGEFvSw
-Podcast
https://www.radio-fuchues.tokyo/podcast-list


Kawara-ban “Kami hikoki” (Newspaper “Paper airplane”)
Under the theme “People, Fuchu, Art”, we aim to find interesting things and people in Fuchu and rediscover the charm of the region.

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