Rebuilding community from tsunami with education

Dear supporters,

Thank you for all of your support to MORIUMIUS.  As summer approaches, we are turning into second year of operation.

Season of rice arrive in May.  On a sunny day, local children gathered to plant rice in the field.  The plant was gorwn from rice we cropped last year. Not only organic, but original rice is now been grown at MORIUMIUS and waiting to be cropped in fall.  Also in May, famous photograper, Mikio Hasui joined to organize photo workshop.  Eleven children gather materials from nature for them to capture the beauty using professional camera in a special photo studio. 

One of the key event in spring was Washington High School from San Francisco visited us in June.  Nineteen students who raised fund to travel to Japan spent three days at MORIUMIUS helping the local community as well as particpate in sustainable learning program to understand sustainability of life.

We are getting ready to receive children gathering from all over the world.  From July 23, we are going to organize five one week programs for children to be in touch with the nature and interact with local community.  There will be three artists creating art and working with children as residence artist.  They are from Canada, New Zealand, and from US.  Children will have opportunity to be creative in a rich natural surroundings.  

Also, special programs will be hosted this summer.  Tetsuo Ota, reknown chef who has worked at legendary Spanish restaurant El Bulli and Peru's Gaston Acurio will be spending time to create cooking program using local seafood in Italian style.  Makiko Shibuya, stage director for Broadway musical Allegiance will be directing a short play for children to perform their experiences at MORIUMIUS.

Seems like we will be having another exciting summer!

Links:

• Artist at MORIUMIUS, photo workshop