- A journey to meet our future selves
- Taking place in Oshika Peninsula and Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture,
Reborn-Art Festival offers visitors opportunities to enjoy art, music, and food.
At the second edition of the festival in 2019,
seven teams of curators work with various artists to
create art while thinking about “Texture of Life” in each area.
In this place, which is in the process of being reborn,
visitors can encounter values and people they would not find anywhere else.
They may even meet new versions of themselves for the first time.
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TOPICS
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- Overnight events planned
- An overnight program, “Happening on the Night Side,” is scheduled at Momonoura Village and the former Oginohama Elementary School. Deepen your experience of the “Texture of Life” through art, music and food that differs from those of the daytime.
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- Stay overnight and have hands-on experiences at Momonoura Village
- At Momonoura Village, the Reborn-Art Festival’s official accommodation and experiential facility, we are preparing programs enabling participants to learn from and act on the innate power of humanity and wisdom of life. The architecture of the facility, by Dot Architects and associates, is another highlight.
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- Opening performances to be held!
- Opening performances are scheduled for August 3 (Sat.) and 4 (Sun.) at Ishinomaki City General Gymnasium. Featured performers and ticket sales information to be announced at a later date. We look forward to seeing you there!
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- Kenji in Four Dimensions – The Final Edition
ticket now on sale! - Kenji in Four Dimensions – The Final Edition (based on stories by Kenji Miyazawa, script by Shinichi Nakazawa, music by Takeshi Kobayashi) has now been completed. It will be performed in July in Kamaishi and September in Shiogama, starring Shinnosuke Matsushima, Salyu, KOM_I and others.
- Kenji in Four Dimensions – The Final Edition
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- Exploring local ingredients of Ishinomaki and the Oshika Peninsula
- Food directors Jérôme Waag and Shinichiro Harakawa will conduct the participatory event Ishinomaki Food Adventure, exploring local ingredients and cuisine with fishermen and artists.
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- Two dining locations to open in Oginohama
- Talented chefs from Miyagi Prefecture and elsewhere serve up fine cuisine at Reborn-Art Dining, and the Hama no Okaa-san (Seaside Mothers) group will serve traditional local dishes at the Hama-Saisai eatery. Both operated during the first (2017) edition of RAF and will be reopening this time.
Art that offers glimpses
of the region’s future
Art that offers glimpses
of the region’s future
Music fused with
art and community
Music fused with
art and community
Exploring the regional
culture through food
Experience the region
more deeply through food
ARTIST
PASSPORT
- Viewing works of art at the Reborn-Art Festival
requires an event passport - Visitors need a special passport to view both indoor
and outdoor art works by various artists in Ishinomaki City
and on the Oshika Peninsula and Ajishima Island.
【 Price 】
*Junior high school students and younger are free
*Prices include tax
【 Purchase procedure 】
Purchase an advance voucher on the special website, and exchange it for a passport at the Reborn-Art Festival’s key information offices (to be set up at multiple locations in Ishinomaki City and on the Oshika Peninsula) while the festival is in session.
OFFICIAL TOUR
- Official tours enable viewers to see almost all the works
“Reborn-Art tour” now on sale! - During the festival, there will be bus tours
around the Oshika Peninsula (departing from Ishinomaki station)
and Ajishima (departing from Ajishima).
On both tours, participants assemble in the morning, travel by bus,
listen to talks by guides and view major works of art,
and disband in the evening (lunch included, passport to view works sold separately).
Texture of Life
Traces of the unprecedented disaster caused by nature’s wrath are still visible all around the Tohoku region of northeast Japan. But we should not describe what happened in the region only in negative ways. Indeed, transforming the negative into the positive is what has shaped this art festival, which is organized around the concept of “reborn” art as a means of living. At the first festival in 2017, people’s ideas and connections were newly born in various forms through art.
For the festival’s second edition in 2019, we will explore this theme of “Texture of Life.” The conditions under which we live in contemporary society, not least the uncontrollable economy, seem to take us further and further from the true essence of life. I hope visitors will come to see these artworks filled with the vitality that is unique to Ishinomaki, artworks that bring us into contact profoundly with the roots of humanity, and experience their forward-looking dynamism that discovers new positives.
Takeshi Kobayashi, Chair,
Reborn Art Festival Executive Committee
OUTLINE
Reborn-Art Festival 2019
Period
August 3（Sat） - September 29（Sun） 2019
* Festival scheduled to be closed on Wednesdays
(except on Aug. 14 and when special events are held)
* Ajishima area events from August 20
Viewing times
Weekdays, 10:00 to 16:00 (final admission at 15:30)
Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, and Obon holidays: 10:00-17:00 (final admission at 16:30)
*Hours may differ depending on the facility and work, so please check each artist’s page.
Venue
Oshika peninsula, Ajishima, Central Ishinomaki, Matsushima Bay
(Ishinomaki City, Shiogama City, Higashimatsushima
City, Matsushima Town, Onagawa Town, Miyagi
Prefecture)
Organizers
Reborn-Art Festival Executive Committee,
ap bank
Co-organizers
Miyagi Prefecture, Ishinomaki City,
Shiogama City, Higashimatsushima City,
Matsushima Town, Onagawa Town,
Kahoku Shimpo Publishing Co. ,
JR East-Sendai , Yahoo Japan Corporation
- Grants
the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2019 
- Austrian Embassy in Tokyo / Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo
Supporters
Special cooperation
地元特別協賛
地元協賛
、アイベックスエアラインズ株式会社、ニッポンレンタカー東北株式会社、特定非営利活動法人石巻市スポーツ協会、有限会社アイ・エフ・エス、齋藤不動産管理事務所、コメダ珈琲店石巻蛇田店
Collaborative projects
(In the order of the Japanese syllabary)
