NORTHERN ALPS ART FESTIVAL 2024 Call for Art Proposals

【Application Overview】
Omachi city is located in the northwest part of Nagano prefecture. It’s surrounded by 3,000m high mountaious of the Northern Japanese Alps. It’s blesses with abundant clear steams of melted snow and fresh air. A long time ago, it was famaous as a posting station on the salt road, Chikuni. There is a proverb which says “show human treatment to one’s enemy”.(The famous historical story of the Battle of Kawanakajima)
This area, is also blessed with three beautiful lakes Kizaki, Nakatsuna and Aoki lake, hotsprings and is full of nature. It’s famous for a lot of tourists as a gateway from Nagano’s side to Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route that connects to Tateyama’s town and Omachi city. However, it has a serious population problem recently, because of decreasing numbers of children been born and young people moving out to live in other cities.
Now that the global environment faces a crisis and contemporary capitalism is facing various challenges, in the waves of globalization, innovative creativity to reveal local specific resources of the land and to revive the community .We are waiting for the project proposal by various artists and various creators.

【category】
①Art Work(Installation Art,etc.)
②Performing Art(Music、Dance or Theater play to be performed)
③Free Genre(Cooking,Design,Fashion,Handicraft,Technology,etc.)

【deadline】Friday, June 16th, 2023

【web】https://shinano-omachi.jp/news/20230427_01