Local Program 2011

ARCUS project, centring around the city of Moriya in the Ibaraki prefecture, is carried out with a combination of artist-in-residence programs and programs such as workshops for local residents. Examining the meaning of artistic activities in a region, ARCUS attempts to elicit individual potential creativity through its artistic projects and believes that this attempt will invigorate the region.

H+H (biannual workshops with artist, Katsuhiko Hibino)
Art that family can have fun (ten-time workshops per year with artist, Tatsuo Inagaki)
Young Children with Circus Artist, Keisuke Kanei (ten workshops/year to explore a sense of
balance and body language and expression) ← children up to the age of 5-6.
ARCUS with Children! (Open Studio project during summer holidays for elementary and junior high school students)
ARCUS Everywhere! (six-time-per year events in which ARCUS organises different activities, such as workshops and demonstrations, everywhere -- at other public centres and festivals -- in Moriya)
Locker Room Project (The name and concept of the project comes from a locker room in which the solidarity of players increases before the game starts. The project, starting in March 2009, aims to cultivate human resources and local exchange by offering an ongoing discussion space to voluntary supporters of ARCUS activities. Voluntary participants with Katatsumuri-san are encouraged to have frequent meetings and initiate creative events.)
ManaFES - Manabi-no-sato Festival (ARCUS aims to develop locals’ proactive attitude toward the environment that they live and cultivate human resources and local exchange with active engagement of locals through the festival. Since the fiscal year of 2010, the annual festival offers opportunities to liaise between self-motivated voluntary members, mainly of the Locker Room Project, members of group circles in Moriya Manabi-no-sato, and artists and create collaborative activities. As the people who share the same building of Manabi-no-sato for their own activities can regard proactive attitudes and self- and team- motivations as important. Therefore, ARCUS encourages them to find a further creativity driven by those attitudes and motivations and by their collaboration. )