今回は、a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible （僕たちのハートが信じている、より美しい世界）へのトランジションとして【基本料金＋ギフト】という仕組みを選んでみた。単発ワークショップでやっている完全【ギフト】というのも魅力的なんだけど、それに近いギフトツアーという企画をやったときに、とにかく心の気楽さがなかったので、今回はあいだをとってみた。
Peace making activism in Japan after Nuclear Disaster
~ Social innovation through craftsmanship: Nuclear power plants, war, health recuperation, and healing ~
Join Takafumi Tomita, a long term anti-nuclear, peace, and environmental activist, as he shares his activism experience in post-Fukushima Japan.
He hopes to share his perspectives from his experiences on his political actions, activities to protect children from radiation, and practices of revitalizing traditional food to protect and strengthen mind and body, and to exchange ideas in current forms of actions for “social innovation and craftsmanship” that inherits the spirit of Ghandian Charkha movement.
His talk includes varieties of his approach in peace-making activism such as • health recuperation camps, • food as medicine for radiation protection, • miso-making and plant dyeing as a way to create local resilience and self-sustainability independent of nuclear power plant and war economy, • farming as a place for nuturing hope from the ground • community organizing through creating a place for workshop • creating Earth Day at House of representatives office in Japan to invite politicians to the place making
Please bring a dish to share and your own plate/cups/utensils if you wish to join the potluck :D
18:30 ~ 19:00 Opening/Check in
19:00 ~ 21:00 Talk and Dialogue
This event is operated under a gift economy with a suggested donation of $ 5-10 dollars, which will be 100% gifted to the PLACE as our gratitude for hosting the event. Please pay this in advance on the Paypal.
TO PRE-REGISTER: Make a payment through PAYPAL and include a note: "PEACEMAKING" along with your full name and email if different from your paypal account. PAYPAL
As for Taka's time and labor, he wishes to invite you to be part of his on-going activism by supporting him in a way you feel inspired to by free-will participation fee, which may offer at the event.
He currently have his philosophy on gift in Japanese on his website but google translate does an OK job communicating his intention, so please refer to the site to read on his philosophy on activism if you are interested. (we are working on English translation so, hopefully this will come soon). CLICK HERE for the Japanese version.
ABOUT TAKA
Takafumi Tomita is a peace and environmental activist, author, and practitioner of Japanese traditional handicrafts, healing and care, fermentation, and calendar. While based in Osaka, Japan, he has travelled all over Japan holding many workshops and events to share his knowledge and passion on topics including natural and plant dyeing, miso making, relationship of our body and mind, and alternative calendars (lunar and 13moon calendar). He practices and shares plant dyeing, miso making and other traditional handicrafts as his core embodiment of peace activism to empower community and build local resilience.
Permaculture et « jardins de résistance ». Mi japonais, mi américain, Kai, lui, est le spécialiste des jardins de résistance.
Une nouvelle vision de l’agriculture, menée localement, par les
habitants, pour se nourrir et se relier à la terre. Une idée qui fait
son chemin partout dans le monde et même à Paris, où la mairie instaure
des jardins et potagers partagés. Tandis que les métropoles
réfléchissent à leur autonomie alimentaire, Kai teste des programmes de permaculture
un peu partout localement mais aussi à l’étranger (notamment à Detroit)
Invité régulièrement aux évènements TEDx pour propager la bonne parole,
il alterne cette vie internationale, ses cours et des moments de retour
à sa terre. Un par un, il a cueilli les légumes de notre repas du soir…
Il vit principalement grâce à l’économie du don : ses habits et sa
maison lui ont été donnés en cadeaux par la communauté, par ses fans…Un
joli mouvement global d’activistes le suit et l’aide ainsi à publier ses
découvertes…
