Kobe City: Works overflowing with rich expression – The 8th Kobe Art for Persons with Disabilities

Press Release (September 9, 2024)
Disability Welfare Division, Welfare Bureau
The Kobe Art Festa for the Disabled [nickname: HUG⁺ (Hug Plus) Exhibition] is held to promote social participation of persons with disabilities, support and promote artistic and cultural activities, and raise citizens’ awareness of welfare. We invite people and groups of people with disabilities who are engaged in artistic and creative activities in the city to submit paintings, calligraphy, photographs, three-dimensional works, etc., and all works will be exhibited. All works will be exhibited, and after rigorous judging by experts, prize money and prizes will be awarded. Please come and see the works full of emotion and expression of the artist’s thoughts and feelings.

Exhibition Period

Saturday, September 14, 2024 to Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10:30 am to 5:00 pm
*Closed on Tuesday, September 17, 2024
*Open at 1:00 pm on the first day, close at 2:00 pm on the last day

Venue

Harada no Mori Gallery, Main Building, 2nd floor, Large Exhibition Room (3-8-30 Haradadori, Nada-ku, Kobe, Japan)

Exhibition Contents

Exhibition of approximately 540 paintings, calligraphies, photographs, sculptures, and other artworks submitted by people and groups of people with disabilities in Kobe City.

Admission

Free of charge

Organizer

Kobe Art Festa for the Disabled Executive Committee (Kobe City Council of Social Welfare, Sports Promotion Center for the Disabled)

Special Partner

Kobe (host) Lions Club

Supported by

Iwasa Corporation / Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Corporation / Charm Care Corporation / Kobe Plaza Hotel, Kobe Plaza Hotel West / Kobe Yakult Sales Company / Kobe Thatchiai Lions Club / Toyota Rent-A-Clease Kobe Corporation / Hyogo Toyota Motor Corporation / ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Kobe / ADESSO Corporation / Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Company / Daiwa House Industry Kobe Branch / Sue Seki Seihaku / Franz Corporation / Nagasawa Stationery Center Co. Hamafukutsuru Ginjo Kobo

Judging of works

The following judges will judge the entries.

Jurors (in alphabetical order):

Hiroko Ote (Professor, Faculty of Art, Osaka Seikei University)
Yasumasa Oka (Director, Kobe Municipal Koiso Memorial Museum of Art, Kobe Museum of Art)
Tadashi Hattori (Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Konan University)
Hitoshi Yamazaki (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Nishiwaki City Okanoyama Art Museum)

Award Ceremony

Date and Time

September 21, 2024 (Saturday) 11:00-12:30

Place

Room 401, 4th floor, Harada no Mori Gallery Annex

Previous (HUG⁺ Exhibition 2023)

For inquiries, please contact

Kobe Art Festa for the Disabled Executive Committee Secretariat (in Kobe City Council of Social Welfare, Kobe City Sports Promotion Center for the Disabled)
3-1-32 Isogamidori, Chuo-ku, Kobe City Kobe Citizen’s Welfare Exchange Center 4F
TEL: 078-271-5330
FAX: 078-271-5367
Mail: hug@kobesad.jp
Home Page :https://www.kobesad.jp