This project was started by volunteer backstage staff from festivals and other events.
Following COP 3 (United Nations Climate Change Conference) held in Kyoto in 1997, from 1998 a free festival was held in Yoyogi Park in Shibuya, Tokyo, and in 2009 organizers held Spring Love Harukaze, the base for the current event.
In addition to striving to highlight social problems and find solutions to these challenges through music and art, the festival also currently functions as an opportunity for the organizing staff, who have extensive event experience, to pass on knowledge and skills to the younger generation. Given the background to its founding, the event is also held in the spirit of a traditional “matsuri” festival in order to boost the morale of those involved in the festival.
For the 2024 event, three stages were set up around Yoyogi Event Plaza in Yoyogi Park to provide festival-style live performances. Several monumental artworks were also exhibited around the venue.
【SPRING LOVE Harukaze General Incorporated Association】
Purpose: The aim is to propose and put into practice “what we can do now” to address social issues through music events and festivals.
Characteristics: Each event is made up of many people, including sound and stage staff who mainly work on music events, production staff such as promotion and booking staff, festival headquarters management/proceeding staff, free paper editors, DJs, and housewives. are being carried out.
Yoyogi Event Plaza (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)