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Activities for Kids
We aim to bring art much closer to you
and develop various programs for children and local communities.
Here, kids explore nature along with accomplished artists and create art work from images and materials gathered during their fieldwork. Since 2002, WAP has continued to offer this program, inviting creative and unique artists from in and outside of Japan to serve as navigators.
Aims to bring closer to kids the artists’ stage, music, and performance! This special show is interactive, offering a chance for the audience and the performers to create and enjoy an exciting experience together.
Your Only One Portrait in the World
The inter-generational popular hero Noppo-san came back as the navigator for this workshop held at four venues in Japan.
This time daddies and kids were challenged to work together to create large-scale works of art.
Your Only One Form in the World
Noppo-san, featured in a cultural educational TV program for kids, is one of the most popular childhood heroes among Japanese daddies. During this dream-like Noppo-san workshop, daddies and kids tried various handicrafts together.
This program was held in nine museums throughout Japan.
Your Only One Picture Book in the World
Artist MAYA MAXX served as the navigator for this program in which daddies were asked to talk to their kids about their childhood memories, answering questions such as “What is daddy’s happiest story when he was a child?” and “What kind of person was daddy’s daddy?” The kids then created drawings from their daddy’s answers. Though this process, the workshop aimed to deepen communication between daddies and kids.
Children observed creatures in an aquarium, expanded their images, and created their own hats from their brilliant ideas.
After the fashion show, the kids and their hats were introduced on the huge dolphin show screen.
With artist MAYA MAXX as the navigator, kids created houses using cardboard cartons. On completion, the houses were exhibited in the Sakura-hall. Next day, a “Kids Paradise” event was held, allowing many people to enjoy the houses displayed throughout the hall.
Children from three primary schools were invited to the Pushkin Museum Exhibition on the day the museum closed. Artist MAYA MAXX conduced a tour for the kids, who were able to experience the masterpieces firsthand.
This workshop involved children in Ashikaga-city who were encouraged to create “nobody-knows” animals. One child first described the imagined animal in words; another then created the animal. As a result of this collaborative activity, fascinating and unique animals were born.
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