A lighting designer who also worked on the Kobe Port Tower will take the stage! Stage

On May 25, “Kobe School,” a live message concert based on the concept of “the gift of experience and words,” will be held at Stage Felissimo (Chuo Ward, Kobe City) and online. Shiho Nagamachi, a lighting designer who has worked on illumination and other nighttime landscapes, will be the guest speaker at Stage Felissimo (Chuo Ward, Kobe City) and online. Advance registration is required and the fee is 1,200 yen (500 yen for online delivery).

The “Kobe School” is a message live concert started in 1997 in the wake of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and this is the 321st time it has been held. Participation fees will be used to support orphans from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake through Ashinaga Scholarship Society.

Shiho Nagamachi is a lighting designer and president of LEM Space Studio, Inc.
She graduated from Kyoto Institute of Technology. Visiting professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design and Kobe Design University. She practices various lighting designs from public spaces to architecture, interior design, and lighting events, focusing on urban nightscape planning and city planning with light. He has received numerous awards, including the Good Design Award and the Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan’s Lighting Design Award Grand Prize.
Major works:
“Meriken Park, HAT Kobe, Maritime Museum,” “Amanohashidate Light-up,” “Midosuji Illumination,” and many others.

Mr. Nagamachi, our guest this time, is designing “public lighting” to face and solve the issues faced by the city and its residents. In his message live, he will talk about his thoughts on creating a “town” together with many people under the theme of “Tourism Town Development with Akari: The Magic of Akari to Change a Town”. He will also talk about the “lights in the city of Kobe,” including the Kobe Port Tower, which reopened this April.

＜A word from the reporter:
The event will be held this weekend, May 25! Don’t miss the thoughts and wonderful stories behind the “lights” that color the city of Kobe☆

Details

Date

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Place

Stage Felissimo 1F Hall
(7-1 Shinko-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe)
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Time

13:30-16:00 (Doors open at 13:00)

Fee

General 1,200 yen (1,000 yen per person if you are a student or two or more people apply)
*Online delivery fee 500 yen

How to participate

Please visit the registration page at
*Seats are all unreserved and cannot be reserved.

Inquiries

Kobe School Office
TEL 078-325-5727 (weekdays 10:00-17:00)
E-mail kobe@felissimo.co.jp

• Kobe School official website https://www.felissimo.co.jp/kobeschool/
• Kobe School official Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kobegakko_felissimo/