What we do

Gayagaya Gayagaya, Here and There 2022

  • Organization : Gayagaya Club
  • Section : None
  • Type of Grant Program : Single

Outline

This project aims to promote mutual understanding through extensive dialog between participants from diverse backgrounds, principally those with intellectual disabilities, while they enjoy music and dance. Based on verbatim accounts from these sessions, participants and artists created musical compositions and made them public as video works on YouTube.

Participating artists
Terunobu Osaki, Tetsutaro Take, Arisa Yokote, Momoko Nakamura, Haruko Nakamura , Masami Noda, Yuta Masuda, Yo Irie, Ryota Hayashida, Laura Yokozawa, Miki Akahane, Keiko Masaki, Tatsuhiro Watanabe, Tamami Yamada

Profile

Gayagaya Club
Formed in 2003, this group focusing on Nerima City residents with intellectual disabilities organizes a gathering of music and dance lovers for a variety of activities. The group holds workshops around once a month where participants enjoy folk songs and warabe-uta nursery rhymes, folk dancing, contemporary music, creating original aerobics, performing improv theater, etc.

Contact

Kiri Kojima
director
Gayagaya Club
E-mail: hotta.kr@gmail.com

Venues

Hikarigaoka City Center, Nerima City, Tokyo
Kasugacho Library, Nerima City, Tokyo
Nukui Community Center, Nerima City, Tokyo