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Faret Tachikawa Art Museum Day 2020 Autumn

EVENT 2020.09.24

With 109 pieces of public art by 92 artists from 36 countries around the world, the “Faret Tachikawa” block at the north exit of Tachikawa Station will be used as an art museum and various programs will be developed. We hope you will come to Fare Tachikawa, the city of public art that Tachikawa is proud of.

Sponsored by Fram Kitagawa photo by Junya Ikeda

*Due to the response to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), events may change. We will provide the latest information on our website and FB, so please check it.
 

■Talk Event “Faret Tachikawa Art School vol.6”

This is a special edition of a study and exchange meeting in which Kazunari Kitagawa, who designed the logo of Faret Tachikawa Art, and various experts are close. Guests are Furumu Kitagawa, an art planner from Faret Tachikawa who was selected as a Person of Cultural Merit in 2018, Shohei Shimizu, the mayor of Tachikawa City, and Koji Sato, chairman of the Faret Tachikawa Art Committee. I would like to ask you about the art in the Wiz Corona era.

Date: Sunday, October 18 13: 30 ~ 15: 00
Place: Women’s General Center, Aime 1st floor hall
Capacity: 50 people (advance application system)
Admission: Free
Application: By Wednesday, October 7 [required], write down the event name, name and phone number, and send it by mail, fax or e-mail to the office of Faret Tachikawa Art Administration Committee.

Tamashin RISURU Hall (Tachikawa City civic hall) 2nd floor, 3 -3 -20 Nishiki-cho, Tachikawa 190 – 0022
TEL: 042-523-2111, extension 4501
Fax: 042-525-6581
E-mail: chiikibunka-t@city.tachikawa.lg.jp

 

■Planned exhibition “Print exhibition for children 2020”

Keisuke Yamaguchi「Philadelphia Diary No19」
etching、Aquatint


I want children to be exposed to the excellent work of attractive artists in their daily lives. With that wish, this exhibition was born. This time, about 20 woodblock prints by about 20 artists representing modern and contemporary Japanese art, including Koshiro Onchi and Yozo Hamaguchi, will come to Fare Tachikawa.
 
Date: Thursday, October 8 ~ 18th (Excluding the 15th (Thursday) when the facility is closed. The last day is until 16: 00.) 9: 00 ~ 19: 00
Place: Women’s Center, Aime 1st Floor Gallery
Admission: Free

■Workshop “Let’s make art that produces sound”

This is a workshop to make art that shows the sound of Eros Nakazato, an artist who lives in the city.

Date: Saturday, October 17, 18th (Sun) (1) 11: 00 ~ (2) 14: 00 ~
Place: Women’s General Center, Aim 5th floor work room
Subject: Elementary school students and younger
Capacity: 5 people each time (advance application system)
Admission: Free
Application: By Wednesday, October 7 [Required], write the event name, desired date and time, name and phone number, and send it by mail, fax or e-mail to the office of Fare Tachikawa Art Administration Committee.

Tamashin RISURU Hall (Tachikawa City civic hall) 2nd floor, 3 -3 -20 Nishiki-cho, Tachikawa 190 – 0022
TEL: 042-523-2111, extension 4501
Fax: 042-525-6581
E-mail: chiikibunka-t@city.tachikawa.lg.jp

 

■Machinaka Geki ‘Lost in Faret: Space Family Lost in Tachikawa’

An alien family who came to Earth to do art sightseeing from a star that looks like the Earth got lost in Tachikawa! Let’s find a strange alien family looking for each other and looking at the works of Faret Tachikawa Art, and get along!

 
Date: Sunday, October 18, stormy weather was cancelled.
① 11: 00 〜 (2) 12: 30 〜 (3) 15: 00 〜 30 minutes each time
Performance area: Tategawa Konjiya S.C. North side red flower pot and near Sun Sun Road
Admission: Free
*This performance is a strolling type of play in which customers can walk around the area freely during the time and enjoy a chance encounter with an alien family.

Screenplay and direction: Yasushi KURASAKO (Theatre Ort)
Appearing: Shuichi HAYASHI (Karen-dance), Toshiho UEMOTO (Sukoyaka Club), Iruka SHIMIZU (Salmon Spare), Maaya IWAKURA (Theatre Ort), Alan Patton (Accordionist)
Costume: Nozomi INOUE (dancing group Nenemu)
Prop: Manami HASEGAWA
Planning and Production: Tachikawa Sozo-sha
 

■art tour

This is an art guided tour where the “Faret Club”, a volunteer group that is familiar with Faret Tachikawa Art, introduces their works. You can listen to episodes of various works and writers. In addition, on Tuesday, October 13, the 26th birthday of Faret Tachikawa, a special 3 hour open commemorative tour will be held to see all 109 of the works. Rain or shine.
 

〇Select tour (advance application required)
Date: Saturday, October 17 (1) 11: 30 ~ (2) 15: 30 ~ (about 40 minutes, capacity available)
Gathering place: Tachikawa Shimaya S.C. North side red flowerpot area

〇Opening commemorative tour (advance application required)
Date: Tuesday, October 13 13: 30 ~ (about 3 hours, 20 people)
Gathering place: Tachikawa Shimaya S.C. North side red flowerpot area
 
Application: By Wednesday, October 7 [required], write down the event name, desired date and time, name and phone number, and send it by mail, fax or e-mail to the office of Fare Tachikawa Art Control Committee.

Tamashin RISURU Hall (Tachikawa City civic hall) 2nd floor, 3 -3 -20 Nishiki-cho, Tachikawa 190 – 0022
TEL: 042-523-2111, extension 4501
Fax: 042-525-6581
E-mail: chiikibunka-t@city.tachikawa.lg.jp

 

■Exhibition and awards ceremony for the 6th Faray Tachikawa Art Photo Contest

Out of 157 entries, 13 winners were selected by popularity vote and judging by the Tachikawa Art Committee.

○ Exhibition
Date: Thursday, October 8 ~ 18th (Excluding the 15th (Thursday) when the facility is closed. The last day is until 16: 00.) 9: 00 ~ 19: 00
Place: Women’s Center, Aime 1st Floor Gallery

○ Commendation ceremony
Date: Sunday, October 18 13: 00 ~ 13: 30
Place: Women’s Center, Aime 1st Floor Gallery
 

■art market

Craft art and goods markets have opened around Sunsun Road.
Date: Saturday, October 17, 18th (Sun) 11: 00 ~ 16: 00 ※ The event will be cancelled if it rains.
Location: Sun Sun Road, Tachikawa Shima, S.C. near the red flowerpot on the north side
 

■Collaboration Sweets

For a limited time only, hotels and cafes in the vicinity of Faret Tachikawa will sell collaborative menus inspired by FaretTachikawa Art.

○Museum Art


Palace Hotel Tachikawa (Akebono-cho 2 -40 -15)
“Museum Art” is a cake with a motif of Tachikawa Faret art.
In commemoration of the 26 year anniversary of the hotel, the 4 previous works will be reproduced for a limited period and will be sold at Palace Bakery on the first floor of Palace Hotel Tachikawa (from 10/11 (Sun) to 16 (Fri)).
Price: ¥518 each (tax included)
Sales period: 10/12 ~ 16


○faret chocolate pie

Adamsuo Sam Pie (Midori-cho 4 -5 Kotobukiya Building 2nd Floor)
The number on the chocolate pie is based on Jonathan Borovsky’s “The Man With a Briefcase.”
Price: ¥580 (tax included)
Sales period: 10/8 ~ 18


 

■visitor present

The first 100 winners of the 6th Faret Tachikawa Art Photo Contest will receive an original calendar for 2021 each day. In addition, original goods will be presented to those who download and present the application “Faret Tachikawa Art Navi” to their smartphone or tablet, or those who cooperate with the sponsorship money for the preservation and utilization of Faret Tachikawa Art.
Date: Saturday, October 17, 18th (Sun) 11: 00 ~ 16: 00
Location: Headquarters booth (Woman General Center, Aime 1st floor gallery)
 

■We are looking for sponsorship money.

In order to preserve and utilize Faret Tachikawa Art in the future, we are looking for donations. We will present original goods to those who cooperated in the sponsorship money at the headquarters booth and those who downloaded the application “Faret Tachikawa Art Navi” to their smartphone and showed it.
 

■Faret Tachikawa Access

It is directly connected by a pedestrian deck from the north exit of JR Tachikawa Station and Tachikawa-kita Station of Tama Monorail. A 3-minute walk from the north exit of Tachikawa Station and a 2-minute walk from Tachikawa-kita Station.
 

■Host and Contact Information

Faret Tachikawa Art Management Committee
Secretariat: Regional Culture Section, Industrial Culture and Sports Department, Tachikawa City
Tamashin RISURU Hall (Tachikawa City civic hall) 2nd floor, 3 -3 -20 Nishiki-cho, Tachikawa 190 – 0022
TEL: 042-523-2111, extension 4501
FAX:042-525-6581
e-mail:chiikibunka-t@city.tachikawa.lg.jp

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■Request for visitors

In order to prevent the spread of new coronavirus, we ask for the following cooperation when you visit the venue.
Please refrain from visiting if you have symptoms such as fever, cough or sore throat.
When entering the Women’s General Center/Aim, if you do not take your temperature at home, please do so at the reception.
Please wear a mask to prevent splashes from spreading. Also, please cooperate with cough etiquette.
○ Please disinfect your fingers with disinfectant.
○ Please secure the personal distance (At least 1 meter, preferably 2 meters) of front and back, right and left.
○ Please refrain from staying in the gallery for a long time.