The annual event combining food and art—centered on the themes of diversity and coexistence—is back again this year!
Overview
Organized by：Chodo Festival + Farming Organizing Committee
Date and Time: September 20 10:00-16:00 Free entrance
Venue: DAIS Ishinomaki（228-2 Uchinohara, Mano – Aza, Ishinomaki City） Map
About 15 minutes from JR Ishinomaki Station. 8 minutes from the intersection at the Inai Junior HIgh School. Drive North by the Mano River, along some signboards. Parking is located near by about 10 minutes walk at an Evacuation Park. Map
Program:
(1) Main Stage:
Morning Set: 10:00-12:00
Lunch Break: 12:00-13:00 (Enjoy with Rakugo Story Telling, as well as Food booth at the Barn and Main House areas.)
Afternoon Set: 13:00 – 16:00 メインステージ・パフォーマンス、フードエリア、フレアマーケット
(2) Barn area
Lunch Break at 12:00-13:00. Rakugo Group “Bakazu No Kai” from Kyoto and “Kami Kami Bunko” and others…
(3) Main House Area
Flea Market and Food booth all day!
(4) Performance Art Workshop on September 21 at 11:00 ~ 12:00 By Min Sun
The day after the Chodo Festival, there will be a perfromance art workshop from 11 am to noon. Welcome everyone from all ages!
Inquiries：todasyou@mbk.nifty.com 090-9630-6924 （Toda）
”Things Left Behind/Things We Leave Behind/Things Remain – Symposium on Remains of Everyone Gathering”
Symposium Report By Maron Shibuhaka (Japanese language only for now. English translation coming in 2024)
Photo Gallery
April 19 Wed.
Let’s go to a farmland!
DAIS Ishinomaki, located in the Mano ward of Ishinomaki city, will be slowly and organically formed as a multilayered cultural facility where different communities can jointly experience art, food, and nature in the area. Wild weeds have grown thick and the vast site that has been neglected will be regenerated as farmland by a group of amateurs.
April 20 Thu.
Performance art event #1 Diffuse reflection at night
Venue: Theater Kinemathica (Open 17:00, Start 17:30)
Cover charge: 2,000 yen (including 1 drink)
A series of approx. 10 minutes performances by 11 performance artists from Japan and abroad. The rich individuality of each artist explodes, expanding the possibilities of somatic expression. Many audience wondering “what is performance art?” Joined us at this rare opportunity for a special experience.
Photo Gallery
April 21 Fri.
Performance event#2 Ishinomaki as a Performance City
Various locations citywide.
Photo Gallery
April 22 Sat.
Performance Art Workshop
Venue: DAIS Ishinomaki
Fee: 2,000 yen (Plus 1,000 yen with the performance event on April 20)
Max. Participants: 20 (18 years or older)
1pm ~ 1:45pm
Béatrice Didier (Beligium) Workshop “HERE AND NOW WITH BODY”
Experimental theatrical exercises to confront and explore own ways of “being here and now”. Focus on breathing, controlling energy, concentration skill, and awareness of the body in relation to; space, time, other bodies, and an object as a “partner”.
2pm ~ 2:45pm
Hector Canonge (USA) Workshop “PERFORMING THE BODY”
Workshop that explores corporeal movement and somatic expression through the technique of somatic energy developed by Hector Canonge. Participants with no experience are invited to participate and express their inner performative self.
April 23 Sun.
Chodo-Festival participation
Participated in an outdoor performance (with Ishinomakiʼs diverse communities) + international cuisine + art exhibition “Sappari Chodo Stenenda-on(abbreviation: Chodo Fes)”.
Through a heterogeneous performance woven by diverse subjects, regardless of disabilities, nationality, or genre of art, we are able to promote the richness of nature’s way of life in this multi-purpose outdoor art event held in Mano, Ishinomaki City that reconsiders the meaning of art as a means of living and the philosophy of coexistence. The title is in the Ishinomaki dialect and means “I cannot sit still at all.” It was a praxis aimed at the future of the region and a circulative society by tickling the post-COVID pandemic norms with the “Chodofes thinking”.
