SEGO Initiative’s Ocean Awareness & Activation Season
Online Ocean Education Sessions

SEGO Initiative, a not-for-profit association dedicated to environmental causes,
is offering public webinar sessions as part of its educational programming toraise awareness and inspire people to take action against the issues facing theoceans and the planet.
The sessions are a lead up to the association’s #TogetherApart International Coastal Cleanup. For the last decade,every fall, SEGO Initiative has led the Fujisawa Beach Cleaning Project/Clean S.E.A with corporate, family andstudent volunteers participating. However this year, due to COVID-19, the association will lead #TogetherApart ICC
cleanups when volunteers clean where they live, work, and play during a dedicated cleanup season. As always, allbeach debris will be counted and results aggregated
so that participants can know how much they haveintercepted from the waste stream that inevitably
leads to our oceans.
More information can be found on Expo Mer Fujisawa
website, SEGO Initiative’s online space dedicated tosharing inspiring artworks and featuring a diverse
array of speakers and artists sharing local, regional andglobal perspectives.

ABOUT
Expo Mer Fujisawa Virtual Art Space is a public education project of SEGO Initiative’sFujisawa Beach Cleaning Project / Clean S.E.A. Started in 2009, the organization
has grown to support three key pillars: volunteering for the staff of corporate
sponsors, their families and the next generation; public education via citizen
science and art; and reconnecting to the marine environment via sailing throughClean S.E.A.

MODERATOR BIO
Ken Moroi, Vranken Pommery Japan
Half-French, half-Japanese, Ken Moroi was born in Paris and received a Masters inJapanese Language and International Trade at Paris IX university. Moroi moved toJapan in 2004 to become a brand manager for Vranken-Pommery Monopole, thesecond largest Champagne house in terms of sales and the distributor in Japan of
the grand Champagnes from Pommery, Heidsieck & Co Monopole, Demoiselle,Diamant and Charles Lafittes. Now the CEO of Vranken Japan, a newly establishedJapanese subsidiary, Moroi is responsible for all those lines, as well as Listel Winesand Port Rozes. He is also the Asia Pacific Export Director. Having been one of thefirst to be involved with the Fujisawa Beach Cleaning Project back in 2009, Moroi isa long time supporter of SEGO Initiative.

SPEAKERS BIO
Asumi Tanaka, PHYTOMER Japon
Born in Yokohama bay side, Asumi has loved nature and the sea since her childhood.
She studied at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, majoring in Environment
and Natural Resources Science. After working in diverse business fields and travelingto 15 countries, she found her way back to her core interests, and started her career inthe wellness and spa industry in 2011. Now with PHYTOMER, she is 100% committed
to promoting the fundamental beauty of the human body and mind, the importance ofwellbeing, and the necessity of establishing a truly sustainable world.

Maud Baigneres, SEA ART Film maker
Writer - director Maud BAIGNERES grew up between Tokyo, New York and Paris.
Japan has a special place in her life and her work. She often made films in Tokyo.
She finds inspiration in Nature and Humans. She has a radical minimal dreamlike
vision of the beauty and purity of nature.
She knows how to step aside to look at and accompany humans in their link with artand their relationship to the element
From documentaries to feature films, she gently highlights what touches her, whatworries her and what engages her.
www.maud-baigneres.com

Date: Sept 16th webinar event | Time: 6pm to 7pm | Platform: Zoom | Language: English language
Speakers Names: Asumi Tanaka | Affiliation: PHYTOMER Japon		

Maud Baigneres | Affiliation: SEA ART Film maker

Topic: SEA Art Film Project: Art and Conversation for the Ocean
Film Link: youtu.be/gmvg435mcP8 [Julie GAUTIER by Maud BAIGNERES]
Organizer: 一般社団法人SEGO Initiative
Contact: Alana Bonzi alana@segoinitiative.org
For registration and inquiry, please check https://art.segoinitiative.org/sessions/Photo Credits : SEA ART/Julie GAUTIER by Maud BAIGNERESSEGO Initiative
Michel and Alana Bonzi
Founders
SEGO grew out of our Fujisawa Beach Cleaning Projectthat we started in 2009. The goal was to bring the foreign
and Japanese communities together to give back to thelocal community. Based 800m from the sea in Fujisawa
Japan and being both for coastal areas originally, it
was natural for us to look to the ocean and beach as
the best way for us to do so. Volunteers are mainly staff
from corporate sponsors, their families and local youth.
Over time, the Project has evolved into 3 key pillars:
volunteering, public education via citizen science and art,
and reconnecting to the marine environment via sailing.
#TogetherApart ICC 2020
Due Covid-19, this year, we are doing a special Ocean
Activation and Awareness with educational webinars andthe TogetherApart cleanup from Sept 19th and Sept 27th.
During this period, volunteers clean close to where they
live, work or play during that period. This activity helpsto reinforce the fact that 80 percent of all the trash thatreaches the sea starts its journey closer to us, on the land.

Kevin Parrington

Kevin is the Commercial and Compliance Manager atOracle Information Systems Japan. An avid surfer, he isa long time SEGO volunteer and supporter, leading
the orientations for the Fujisawa Beach Cleaning Project
cleanup captains. Kevin is the back-end platform admin­
istrator for this year’s SEGO Webinars.

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