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Hirado

Contact

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Link

12xHolland homepage in Nederlands to 12xHolland homepage in English to 12xHolland homepage in Japanese



click to read the general diary of:
July 1-15 | July 16-31 | August 1-15 | August 16-31
September 1-15 | September 16-30 | October 1-15 | October 16-31
preparations

click to read the personal diary of:
Bas (July) | David (August)


Preparations

June 24 2000

meeting of all 12xHolland participators, friends and commissionmembers with great Japanese food, and music and performances by the participators.

May 14, 2000

opening of the homepage at the URL-address: www.12xholland.nl

April 30, 2000

meeting of the 12xHolland-participators and Studio E at the Foundation Japan-Netherlands Culture Centre in Amsterdam.

meeting 2

February 25, 2000

announcing the 12 selected participators. A poster, with a short introduction of the 12 participators has been made and spread out in Hirado.

January 22, 2000

start of selection process. Meeting of the advisory commission (with Onno Mensink/ The Hague City Museum; Casper Gijzen/ KNTV and Kuniaki Seki/ Japanese school Amsterdam), Junko Ueda (Studio E) and Wil Offermans (Studio E).

January 15, 2000

deadline for enrolment. In total 144 registrations have been received.

November/December 1999

preparing visit of Wil Offermans and Junko Ueda to Hirado and Nagasaki.

October 1999

starting of enrolment by distributing posters and smaller cards to a.o.. art institutions, universities, bird-organisations. bakery-organisations, Japan-organisations. Those who would like to participate the project were invited to create an initiative-plan including a proposal and motivation what one could do during a one month stay in Hirado.

September 1999

the Cultural Department of the Hirado City Hall accepts to take care of the full financial support for the 12xHolland project.

May 1998 - November 1999

concerts in Hirado by Wil Offermans / Made in Japan CD Concert Tour en Junko Ueda / Satsuma Biwa concert, a.o.

  • duo concert in Hokubu-Kohminkan (May '98)
  • Made in Japan in Urano-cho Tenman-gû (April '99)
  • Made in Japan/ duo in Saikyô-ji temple (November '99)
  • Made in Japan/ duo in Chouon-in temple (November '99)
  • Made in Japan/ duo in Taiki-ken (November '99)

November 5, 1997

initial ideas for 12xHolland were born during a visit of Wil Offermans and Junko Ueda to Hirado, where they were guides around by Machida Masayuki.

click to read the general diary of:
July 1-15 | July 16-31 | August 1-15 | August 16-31
September 1-15 | September 16-30 | October 1-15 | October 16-31
preparations

click to read the personal diary of:
Bas (July) | David (August)


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