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Date: Tuesday March 29, 7pm to 2am
Location: The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M6J 1H3, (416) 537-0803
Names of Organizers: Rafi Ghanaghounian and Daisuke Takeya
Contact info: rafi.projects@gmail.com, daisuketakeya@gmail.com
Honourable Guests: TBC
Sponsors and partner groups: GUU restaurant, K6cards, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Japanese Visitors Association (JAVA), Nihongo Art Contest 2011,Toronto Artists Fund Raising, Japanese Paper Place, Orange LLP
Special Thanks: Kateryna Topol, Christine Seki
Cover: minimum donation $10 (students $5 with ID)
All funds raised through admission fee and sale of donated artworks will go to Red Cross through The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s Disaster Relief Fund. Tax receipts available for over $50 donations and art purchases.
Statement: Our heart and minds are with the Japanese people and now its time for action! The Toronto arts community felt the shock much like everyone else when images first started to appear on the news and stories through friends started to come in.
Many of the artists have traveled to Japan as visiting artists or to study its rich culture and its embrace with nature and nurture. We have made many friends and built bridges through Collaborations and deep friendship.
Curator Rafi Ghanaghounian and Artist Daisuke Takeya are organizing a fundraiser event that will bring the arts community of Toronto together to support our friends in Japan both mentally and financially. All artists and performers will give their time and efforts for this very cause.
This night will include musicians, artists, poets from both Canada and Japan. As well galleries have donated books and other items available for purchase. A full listing of the participating artist coming very soon!
Participating galleries (more coming!):
OBorn Contemporary, Le Gallery, Show and Tell Gallery, Art Metropole, Koyama Press, Narwhal/Magic Pony
Participating artists (more coming!):
Howard Podeswa, Laura Horne, Max Johnston, Fiona Smyth, Yuriko Kubota, Winnie Truong, Nicholas Di Genova, Shigeko Okada, Keiko Tokushima, Ayako Bando, Sonomi Kobayashi, Bernice Lum, Ron Loranger, Pierre Julien, Richelle Forsey, Jae-hong Ahn, Juno Youn, Miki Shinozaki, Keita Morimoto, Shinobu Akimoto, Yumi Onose, Shinya Kumazawa, Martin de la Rue, Joshua Choi, James Fowler, Martin Ouellette, Patrick DeCoste, Daisuke Takeya, Matt Evans,Martin Reis, Martin De La Rue, Aisha Simpson, Akira Yoshikawa, Shary Boyle, Rie Aikawa
Participating performers (more coming!):
Clara Venice and Ken Ogawa, Arisa Itami, Nobu Adilman: Choir!Choir!Choir!, AKA Dance (Keiko Ninomiya, Amy Hampton, Mike Dell), Ewan Whyte, Bonnie Bowman, VPV (Daisuke Takeya, Ayumi Sawada, Tatsu), Risa Kusumoto, Ashely Ingram, Nana Akimoto, Tomori Nagamoto, Natasha Bailey