We are pleased to announce that we held the inaugural Selection Committee meeting on 18 April at which the following 11 activities were awarded grants of a total of 2,450,000 yen from the fund.
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| Mihakoza Rebirth Project Executive Committee (Fukushima Pref.) Film Mitsubachi no Haoto to Chikyu no Kaiten (Buzzing Bees and the Revolution of the Earth) |
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| Arts for HOPE (Tokyo) Workshop Arts for HOP |
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| remo/Organization for Documentation, Expression and Media (Osaka Pref.) Great Eastern Japan Earthquake Documentation Project |
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| Mito Arts Foundation (Ibaraki Pref.) Pray for the Recovery of Mito: classic concert by the inhouse orchestra and Mito youth |
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| Shokodo (Miyagi Pref.) Photo shooting under cherry trees with a concert by Izaura and photo exhibition by Hiroshi Amano |
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| 3.11 Picture Book Project Iwate (Iwate Pref.) 3.11 Picture Book Project (Send picture books to affected children!) |
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| Hachinohe City Council (Aomori Pref.) Hachinohe Review: Quake Restoration Archiving Project |
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| Art Revival Connection TOHOKU(Miyagi Pref.) Art Revival Connection TOHOKU |
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| Shuichiro Ueda (Tokyo) Lighting Up with Hope and Pray: Japanese drum project |
Grant applications are being accepted for the second round of grants to be released in late May.
With the initial emergency relief phase getting through, there have been increasing calls by affected people for arts-based projects to ease their ordeal and bring them hope.
We appreciate your continuing support and kind contribution to the fund to enable us to fund more such projects to help encourage affected people and recover local communities.
