KIDS EARTH Report

NEWSNo.034 Winter 2006

★ Charity Wine Event“California Wine Countryʼs Finest Chefs”
A charity wine event for KIDS EARTH FUND named, “California ‘Wine Country’s’ FinestChefs” was held at EKKI Bar & Grill at the Four Season’s Hotel at Marunouchi, Tokyo.
This hotel is located in the very modern glass tower building, Pacific Century Place
Marunouchi. During the 4 weeks of the event, the representatives and the incrediblechefs from wineries in California came and provided a full course dinner with matchingwines. Part of the dinner fee, 1,425,000 yen, collected from the participants was donated
KIDS EARTH FUND's special dinner on the first and the last day in theprivate dining room. Children's drawings decorated the wall.

to KIDS EARTH FUND.

★ Tamagawa Takashimaya S・C Christmas Charity“White Angel Project”
It is a charity project with the theme on “Peaceful Christmas for children in the world”
supported by Tamagawa Takashimaya S・C and KIDS EARTH FUND. This project is in
its fifth year. A collaboration Christmas tree drawn by children in the world supported byKIDS EARTH FUND has been exhibited. With the establishment of a huge fir Christmas
tree and collection box, a Christmas painting exhibition drawn by children in the world isbeing held at the same time.
Opening Period：15 November 2006 (Wed) - 25 December 2006 (Mon)
Venue： Tamagawa Takashimaya S・C 1st Floor “Grand Patio”
Sponsor：Tamagawa Takashimaya S・C★ 2007 Calendar is now available ！
Through the courtesy of Amana Inc., KIDS EARTH FUND Original Calendar for 2007
has been completed. This is a calendar filled with children’s artwork that you can enjoy
throughout the year. A desk calendar is available at KIDS EARTH FUND office. Pleasecontact us via email. (Email : info@kidsearthfund.org) We can also be reached via fax.
(Fax: 03-5449-3962)
We would like to thank our corporate sponsors for their generous assistance increating KIDS EARTH FUND Original Calendar each year.

Size app. 22 ㎝ ×10 ㎝

The annual report of the 2005 ﬁscal year
The 2005 ordinary general meeting was held at the KIDS EARTH FUND office on 17 November. We would like to inform you that all offollowing bills had been approved.
● The first bill : An activity report and the settlement of accounts of 2005
● The second bill : An activity plan and the budget of 2006
〈The income and expenditure settlement of accounts of 2005（2005,09,01 - 2006,08,31）〉
1．Income
Membership fees2.

2,673,354

Donations45,200,396

Total

47,873,989

Home project

19,820,017

Exhibitions

1,962,393

Expenditure

Publicity

4,021,260

Support events

16,683,038

Operation & management

11,290,910

Total

53,777,618＊ Regarding the other details, they are available on the KEF home page (www.kidsearthfund.org)

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クロアチア / Croatia
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HOME Project【Voice from participated children】● From children’s ward in Tokyo

KIDS EARTH HOME

17 years old (boy) - It’s been a long time sincedrawing, so it was a wonderful experience.
Though I found that it was a very small partI drew when I looked the whole paintng, I’m
happy to see my part is one of such a nicework.

Christmas Tree〜 from children around the world 〜
Christmas - the special day that children around theworld are anxiously looking forward to once a year.
Toward this special occasion, this year, children of● KIDS EARTH Gallery in USA

each country finished a collaboration drawing of aChristmas tree lead by NO.1 KIDS EARTH HOME
children in Croatia, This project was started fromthe KIDS EARTH Gallery in Tokyo. 35 sheets ofsmall canvas were laid out in shape of a verticallylong rectangule, and children drew huge tree onthem. After that, tree was divided into three, eachof which were delivered to Croatia, KIDS EARTH
Gallery in USA and the children’s ward in Tokyo
where children painted the ornaments. By having
participants from the 1st grade of elementary schoolKIDS EARTHCAR Project
Tr a v e l i n g W o r k s h o p

Let's challenge a collage ！

in the Kawaguchi Art Gallery in Kawaguchi, Saitama

School. Large white papers were spread out on thecollection, which are painted by children all overwalls and on the floor of a big room. These were to beworld, were displayed. During the exhibition period,

made into a collage using colored paper and spangles.

we held two art workshops, led by Mr. Richard Haun.

Initially the children were shy and would only look

From all of the U.S. participants - We allwish everyone in Japan and Croatia a Merry
Christmas!

outstretched hands. The brightly shining spangles in the〈Tina Dadian (A representative of KIDS EARTH Gallery)〉
When I told the children that the Japanese staffs
thanked them for joining this project, some of thechildren replied “DOUITASHIMASHITE”, whichmeans you are welcome in Japanese. Everybody
seemed to really enjoy this joint project.

carefully one by one – each showed their own special

colored materials, they gradually came forward withcenter were very popular with the children. This childdaringly scattering here and that child putting them downcharacter. In another room small works of art were being
produced and on completion being pasted onto the bigcollage. Children coming and going again and again,
children who with great focus spent a long time on theirgirl to high school boys, a big and colorful tree wascreations and children who took part for a short time andcompleted showing national characteristics. This

moved on – were different ways in which the workshop

tree is exhibited at Tamagawa Takashimaya S・C

was enjoyed. Finally, paints were introduced and theWish you a merry, merry Christmas!

from 22 October (Sun) to 19 November (Sun) at ATLIA
Prefecture. 35 pieces of the KIDS EARTH FUND

from far. But as the staff started to paste on different

NEW MEMBERS

An exhibition 'Child painting in the world' was held

This year a collage workshop was held in Aiiku Yogo

Ben - It’s exciting that our paintings are goingto Japan.

in Setagaya word, Tokyo until 25 December (Mon).

Exhibition & Artworkshops
＠ Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA

group artwork was completed in bold colors.

colored papers shaped as a square, circle andtriangle. For unfolded cards, however, coloredpapers shaped as asquare, circle and triangle
are separated and constructed again into one. Art
depends on each person. Everyone created theirown cards by decorating with shining spangles, put

big issue the ‘Environment’. Each child thought of anature world and visualized the scenery where theywant to live with paints. Children’s imaginations werestimulated by the paintings shown by Mr. Haun, which
are painted by the overseas artists, and exhibited in thegallery, which are painted by children all over the world.

on Japanese paper or combined several shaped
papers with volunteers and nurses. Children in thishospital may get many cards.
They must be happy with such special handmade
cards!

Mr. Haun has experience as an art teacher in school.
So he told the children about perspective drawing andusage of effective coloring. And they made paintings
much closer to the image in their mind, such as “theplace they want to go” or “place where they want tolive.” They brought their own paintings to their homewith a hope they someday could be there.

This was balloon workshop and was also led by
Mr. Haun. A lot of things were made by a long thin

[Corperate Membership]
NIHON L'ORÉAL K.K

that has a very long trunk, another has short legs

The beautiful imagination of children

first we made dogs, one of the simplest in balloon
art. It’s very hard to grasp the sense of proportionand various cute dogs were created such as one
and another has a long tail like a monkey. They
are so cute that even the creators themselves can’t help but burst out laughing. Then we made more
complex ones, like animals and a hat which canbe put on. Children quickly learned how to handle[Foster Parents]
Ms. Namie Takahashi / Ms. Sachiko Katsube /Ms. Seika Mitomi / Ms. Yukiko Morota

balloons. They kept making animals and otherforms. Soon the gallery was filled with colorful
balloons as if we were in a dreamland.

Exhibition

11 years ago, a short time after the museum was established, I had an opportunity to meet Ms. Torii through an acquaintance. I was utterly impressed by Ms. Torii. OurWed, 10/11 - Sat, 11/4

Four Season's Hotelat Marunouchi, TokyoFri, 9/22
Mori Art Museum

to volunteer for.
Children’s artwork is powerful. Is it vitality? Just by looking at children’s artwork, I feel cheerful and alive. There is no national border in the world of art. Beyond
race, language, and creed, any of us is equally capable of comprehending and appreciating art. Even though some exhibits are held on more than one occasion at
our museum, spectators are still amazed and intrigued when they realize the age of artists – children, and their nationality. Spectators, like myself, are uplifted just by● TOKYO・Meguro-ku

looking at children’s artwork. Some others regain a perspective to protect our mother nature, or remind themselves of the ugliness of war because they understand theThu, 12/21
Embassy of Egypt

background behind children’s artwork based on children’s nationality.
Some time ago, I saw a picture of children in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. In the picture, the bullets from a pistol looked as if they were flowers. The sky was filled with soWith the advice of Mr. Haun, children enjoyed making
balloon animals / painting pictures● TOKYO・Chiyoda-ku● TOKYO・Minato-ku

memorable encounter made me realize that KIDS EARTH FUND’s mission to support children assisting other children through artwork was exactly what I had envisioned● SAITAMA・Kawaguchi-shi
Sun, 10/22 - Sun, 11/19
Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA● TOKYO・Setagaya-ku
Wed, 11/15 - Mon, 12/25
Tamagawa Takashimaya S・C● TOKYO・Setagaya-ku
Tue, 12/5 - Fri, 12/29
Nissan Tamagawa Hospitalmany flowers that came out of the pistol. Even under such the circumstance, I imagined that those children kept having their hopes and dreams, and believing in the infinite number ofpossibilities. This is the picture that I want to show those children considering suicide because of relentless bullying they suffer from.
Children are our treasures - they lead the next generation yet to come. Hoping that today’s children’s children live happily ever after, we adults must take a step towards peace on earth.

cards. Cards are folded 3 or 4 times and have

On 22 October (Sun), we had a workshop on theballoon by blowing out, bending and twisting. AtDirector : Numata Museum of Original Art from picture bookthere. We made cards by each. They are special“I want to be there in the future”[Individual Membership]
Ms. Eriko Kaneko / Ms. Kay Yamanaka /Ms. Michiko Nagashio / Mr. Naoki Sato /Ms. Sachiko Katsube / Ms. Takayo Kawakita

Keiko Hirai

the Jikei University hospital and held a workshop

On 29 October (Sun) we held a second workshop.

[Big Family Members]
Mr. Johannes Petersen / Ms. Kay Yamanaka

DEAR KIDS,
DEAR THE EARTH vol. 15

On 8 November, the KIDS EARTH CAR visited“Funny zoo with a lot of curious balloon animals”

There are KIDS EARTH FUND’s newmembers since 1 September until 31December(in alphabet order)

ColumnHow fantastic! Surprising

9/22 Mori Art Museum (Tokyo・Minato-ku)