No29-Osaka-Japan




					Workshop in Osaka, Japan Novemver, 2000 AMAMI MINAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ART JAPAN

		The children of Amami Minami Elementary School study for the Peace every year. 6 graders go on a school excursio to Hiroshima to finish the study. They visit the Archive or go out for the Atomic bomb victims' talks to know how deeply these people hope for peace. They spent two months before the excursion doing a lot of activities:studying about the history of the war, interviewing the elders in the area, making a expression exercise, "The Heart of Hiroshima" in the athletic meeting and this expression by painting KIDS' GUERNICA mural. Their joining KIDS' GUERNICA started with the fact that their teacher happened to see the children in Sri Lanka producing the Peace Mural. Listening to her, 118 of 6 graders began to say," We want to paint it, too!" Having the exchange with students who paid short time visits there from SriLanka, they started to have communications over-seas with the children in Sri Lanka by sending them letters or stationery in need. " We want no more war on the earth and shake hands with the people of every country." " We want to live happily together with animals" With those wishes, they tried the collaborative production. At first they tried to express their own minds on the pieces of regular drawing paper. Afterwards, their representatives had talks about the composition of the mural based upon their all ideas. They finished two murals, one of which is supposed to go to Nepal. The other is to remain at their school as a graduation memorial so that every student or parent take a look at it! On one are the people all over the world hand in hand with the animals on the earth, and on the other are the peole, animals and the buildings with a symbolic big pegean flying over them. After dividing the drawings among them, they worked on the mural everyday. It took them 2 weeks to finish this, but they could cooperate to do this. (MATSUSHITA Kazuyo)
		CORDINATOR: MATSUSHITA Kazuyo TEACHER: KIMURA Toshio TAMURA Hiroshi MATSUSHITA Kazuyo EGAWA Eiko Children: INUMAE Masato UEMURARyoma OKADA Hiroaki HAGIWARA Keita KAKUTO Isao KANEKO Yusuke SHIOZAKI Hideki SHINTAKU Fumito SUNAHARA Tomoaki TAKAMOTO Yohei TANIOKA Takafumi NAKAUE Takuya NAKAGAWA Kenji NAHANO Yuichi HAMADA Takuma HAMADA Tatsuya HIROMOTO Takuya FUJII Yuya FUJIWARA Syota MATSUNAGA Ryouta MATSUBARA Yasuhiro MORI Yuuki YAMAMOTO Yuuki UCHIDA Shizuka EIDOME Hitomi KAMIKAWATOKO Nozomi SHIMIZU Mikayo SHIMIZU Rino TAKEUCHI Reika TASAKA Tomomi TANIGUCHI Yukiko NOAMI Miyuki HISAMORI Sana MAEKAWA Yukari YAMAGUCHI Kana YAMASHITA Manami YOU Reika WAKAMATSU Madoka ADACHI Yuuki IKEDA Kyouhei ISHIDA Hikari INUI Shinya INOUE Hiroshi IWASAKI Yusuke UEKI Ryousuke UENO Madoka UEMURA Yasutaka KAWACHI Tsubasa KAWAHARA Satoshi KIDO Daichi SASAKI Hiroto TAKEZAWA Ryosuke TUJIMOTO Akira NAKATANI Koji HIGASHINO Ryosuke FUKUSHIMA Yuta FURUKAWA Tomoaki HORIUCHI Hideaki YAMADA Yohei YONEDA Tomofumi WATANABE Yuki ANEZAKI Nana AMADA Mika ITAMURA Kaoru OOUE Naomi KIGUCHI Kanae KUJYO Mariko KOYAMA Miho SHIBAZAKI Futaba TACHIBANA Saki TSUJIMURA Yumi TSUTSUMI Marina TERAUCHI Ai NIIHO Nozomi NIIMURA Yuuka YAMAMOTO Nozomi YOSHIOKA Shiori YOSHIDA Yui ARAI Yuya ISHIDA Daisuke ISEKI Ryota UEHARA Tatsuya UCHIDA Hiroyuki UMETANI Akihiro OOHASHI Ryosuke OKAMOTO Naoki OKUTANI Kohei KASHIWAGI Kenji KIMOTO Akira GOTO Kazuki SUZUKI Syo TAKEUCHI Tomoaki DEGUCHI Tomoya NAKASE Yudai NAKATANI Syuzou NAKANO Ryuto HASHINO Hiroki FUJII Kenta MATSUMOTO Kazushi MITSUBAYASHI Ryuji YAMAZAKI Yuya WADA Takuto ICHIZONO Satomi KAMADA Fumiko KANNO Hitomi SAKASHITA Ayana SADAMATSU Sakiko SHIBASAKI Kazue SHINGETSU Kumiko SUNAHARA Yurie TAKEGAWA Yurika NAKAMURA Minami HAGIHARA Yuki MATSUBAYASHI Misa MANDO Mika MISUMI Naoko MITSUI Tomomi MORIE Haruka