Links to area website for Shizuoka local community
🇯🇵 https://www.okushizuoka.jp/
🇯🇵 https://www.okushizuoka.jp/live/
🇬🇧 http://www.okushizuoka.jp.e.nw.hp.transer.com/
🇬🇧 http://www.okushizuoka.jp.e.nw.hp.transer.com/live/
Regions
Izu
General Notes
- strategic location - reachable from tokyo
- but not too populated / urban
- atami is getting more developed because it is a stop on the shinkansen, izu is a close rural area nearby
- lots of community initiatives for revitalization here
- cultural / art centers
- #4 on list for net foreigner population gain
- one of our advisors “sort of” knows the governor of shizuoka
- and his partner owns this: https://numazu-club.com/
- he is also a co-owner
- they are pretty close to town + bank
Creative Communities + People
- CCC: center for creative communications
- Kamoe Art Center Hamamatsu: artist residency in shizuoka
- https://kamoeartcenter.org/
- judges
- Mr. Yusaku Imamura (Professor, Graduate School, Tokyo University of the Arts)
- Hideharu Umeda (Professor, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture / Deputy Director and Art Director of Hamamatsu City Kamoe Art Center)
- Atsushi Muramatsu (Director, Hamamatsu City Kamoe Art Center)
- atami art grant
- https://atamiartgrant.com/yr2022/en/
- PROJECT ATAMI, launched in 2021 with the aim to "rediscover the charm of Atami with contemporary art," has two pillars: the ACAO ART RESIDENCE, an artist residency project, and the ATAMI ART GRANT, an initiative to support young artists.
- • [Supported by] Atami City / Atami Hot Spring Ryokan and Hotel Association / Atami City Tourism Association / The Atami Chamber of Commerce & Industry / Shizuoka Prefecture Cultural Foundation
- [michelle - emailed] [email protected]
- Shizuoka university of art and culture
- Yuki Asakura
(Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Fukui Prefectural University, University of Fukui, Japan)