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(Kisosaki Cho) We are looking for participants to the “Foreign Resident Disaster Prevention Seminar” with interpreter

通訳付き「外国人住民防災セミナー」の参加者を募集します（木曽岬町）

2017/08/31 Thursday Seminars and Events

Mie Prefecture will host the disaster prevention seminars for foreign residents and those interested in supporting foreigners.

It is important to deepen your knowledge about actions and countermeasures at times of disasters and to enhance the ability to protect yourself and others around you. Interpreters of various languages will be provided for this disaster prevention seminar, so let’s improve disaster prevention awareness so that foreign residents can become supporters of disaster victims.

For those who have never participated in a disaster prevention seminar until now or even those who cannot understand Japanese, please feel free to join   ※ Advance registration is necessary.

  1. Date and time: October 1, 2017 (Sunday) from 2pm to 4pm
  1. Venue: Kisosaki-cho Yakuba 4 Floor Tamokuteki-shitsu (Kuwana-gun Kisozaki-cho Oaza Nishitaiganji 251-banchi)

Map information is here

  1. Seminar Contents:

Lectures on disaster in Kisosaki-cho, Experience living in a shelter

※ There are interpreters available

  1. Target audience:

Foreign residents in areas mainly in Kisosaki-cho, Corporate personnel hiring foreigners, those interested in supporting foreign residents.

  1. Participation Fee: Free
  1. Capacity: About 30 persons
  1. Application method: Please fill in the application form and please send it by FAX or e-mail before the deadline on September 28, 2017 (Thursday)

* If the capacity is reached, the recruitment may end even before the application deadline.

For flyers and application form click here (PDF file)

  1. Application address

Koeki Zaidan Hojin Mie ken Kokusai Koryu Zaidan (Public Interest Foundation Corporation Mie Prefecture International Exchanges Foundation)

Person-in-charge: Sakatoku Uto

Address: Tsu Shi Hadokoro Cho 700-banchi Ast Tsu 3 floor

TEL: 059-223-5006 (Reception hours: from 9am to 5 pm on weekdays)

FAX: 059-223-5007

E-mail: mief@mief.or.jp

※ This project is outsourced by Mie Prefecture to the Mie International Exchange Foundation.

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II Commemoration of Mie Prefectural Art Museum 35th Anniversary featuring Theo Jansen Exhibition

2017/08/31 Thursday Seminars and Events

三重県立美術館 開館35周年記念Ⅱ　テオ・ヤンセン展

 

Theo Jansen Exhibition, Dutch artist, deemed 21st century’s “Leonardo da Vinci”. It will be the first exhibition in Tokai and Kansai regions.

The exhibition called “Strandbeest” is being held, the work of art that moves with wind, in several regions in the planet, and the artist is well known for being the exponent of Kinetic Art. Theo Jansen continues being well ranked internationally and has already got several awards, such as the “Eco Award” in the 2009 Eco Festival, a United Nations’ project on behalf of natural environment, among others.

This exhibition, scheduled to summer vacation, in addition to feel the intensity of the real work, it will be also possible to approach the creation source and understand how the work of art was developed and how it emerged.

Venue

Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Miekenritsu Bijutsukan)

Exhibition period:

July 15 (Saturday) to September 18 (Monday)

Opening hour

from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (*admission until 4:30 p.m.)

Closed

Every Monday (except on September 18)

Admission fee

General= ¥ 1.000 / Students= ¥800 /Admission is free for students up to high school age (koukosei)

(the admission fee also includes the permanent exhibition)

Students must show the ID card

During the event’s hours, at 10 a.m. 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., one of the works of art (beests) at exhibition room will be propelled by compressor units.

See more details on the following URL:

http://theojansen-mie.com/info/

Contact information:

Mie Prefectural Art Museum

TEL: 059-227-2100
FAX. 059-223-0570

Image: Wikimedia Commons

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