For Tohoku Disaster Refuges
•Live Music •Flea Market •Natural Energy Displays & Speakers Sunday May 22
11:00am -5:00pm
Organized by NPO UNI and Yamauto volunteers A triple disaster of an earthquake, tsunami and radiation spills have never happened before in history. At the same time this can be a turning point for Japan to change into country based on natural and renewable energy with a spirit of taking care of each other. We wish to create such a future with everyone in this event.
Natural Energy
Displays:
Bicycle-powered electricity
Solar cookers and more!
Speakers:
•Aileen Smith has been active in the anti-nuclear movement in Japan since 1982 after a year of interviewing residents living around Three Mile Island, USA about the 1979 nuclear accident. She is the co-founder of Stop the Monju (1990), a citizen organization working to stop Japan's fast breeder reactor, Currently Aileen is the executive director of Green Action based in Kyoto, which aims to stop Japan's plutonium utilization program.
http://www.greenaction-japan.org/modules/entop2/
•Midori Hiragi co-founded Handmade Projects NGO in Hong Kong in 1998 to organize the Journey to Forever project. Journey to Forever is a pioneering expedition by a small, mobile NGO (Non-Government Organization) involved in environment and rural development work, starting from Hong Kong and traveling 40,000 kilometres through 26 countries in Asia and Africa to Cape Town, South Africa.
Theme "What will you eat in this radiation era?"
Radioactive food and drink will damage your body from inside for long time. Should we feel so safe about food so easily? Can you trust your institution for what you eat?
Not only radiation, but today's food systems are harming us and the Earth. We should re-think about becoming more self-reliant about what we eat.
http://journeytoforever.org/index.html
Live Music:
(Part of the electricity for the live music will be created by bicycle-power)
•Hiroki Okano began his solo music career in 1987. Okano's highly acclaimed music blends traditional and digital instruments with natural sounds, expressing the typical Japanese sensitivity of respect and appreciation for the natural world. Hiroki Okano has given concerts with various bands and artists touring Europe and U.S. His current working passion is music with the theme of "sympathetic resonance" for the earth as a sacred place, creating musical dedication to World Natural Heritage sites.
http://www.tenkoo.com/hirokiokano/
•MEW grew up listening to pop, reggae, and rock music. She's been performing since 2005, and has built her career as a vocalist, including performing with Fumiyo Nomura. At the festival she will perform with the Jazz Band SMO.
•Endo Ryokyu and Lamani
Lamani is the "Ambient Rock" band which musician Endo Ryokyu organized after he has released 5 CD albums from major Japanese Record company called Midi. (which has been releasing Sakamoto Ryuichi's albums). In his band Endo plays electric guitar, recorder and Koto (Japanese zither).
Other musicians are: Mayu (synthesizer), Jiyu (percussion), Nam (piano, foot base, voice), Genryu (acoustic guitar).
A unique aspect of this band is that all members are practitioners of musical Buddhist chanting of Wadaji temple, which Endo Ryokyu is the head priest of. "Music of Lamani is a soothing great gift. It is devotional, ecstasy, love, and tenderness all in ONE." Barbel Gleason (Austria)
http://www.endo-ryokyu
Flea Market:
• German Group
German Food Shop, Face Paint, etc.
http://www.mausgruppe.com/lang-de.html
• Rokuro Bicycle-powered electricity
Come experience creating natural energy by yourself!
In this live exhibit, when you bicycle and make continuous electricity to play one song on a CD player you will receive 1 UNI which you can use as 100 yen in this event.
Bento boxes, used books and goods, Healthy & vegan sweets, Chai, Solar coffee, Arabian food, and more!
All booths and performers in the Uni Charity Festival are for donation to care for the Tohoku disaster refugees. The festival is following the example of restaurant owners going to shelters and making meals for free for refugees.
All vendors and performers are participating with this same heart.
100% of all vendors' net income will be used to support the disaster refugees. Please see http://npouni.net/event/eg
If you wish to open a booth please contact: keijun55@s9.dion.ne.jp or stratix@hotmail.com.
Organized by
NPO UNI of Tao Sangha
http://npouni.net/event/eg
NPO UNI (Global UNI Community=GUC) is the Buddhist NGO with aid projects run by Wadaji Tao Sangha. Its purpose is to take care of people who are suffering. Or in other words it's a chance to make the world a more fun place to live. GUC has been giving support to various people in the world, including sending supplies & funds to Haiti, building water wells in Sri Lanka, and running 3 elementary schools, an orphanage, and a community center in Bangladesh. There are GUC branches in Europe, North America and Bangladesh.
GUC also makes T-shirts, which is a symbol of Peaceful resistance against the occupation in Palestine.
Since the Tohoku disaster, Japan UNI has started supporting the refugees by sending food, washing machines, refrigerators and other things to 7 shelters in Tohoku. Tao shiatsu (which is also run by Wadaji Buddhist Temple) is sending volunteer Shiatsu practitioners regularly to this area. Two practitioners visit a shelter of 1000 people (those who escaped from the town in Fukushima where the nuclear plant exploded) and give shiatsu to the refugees 4 times a week.
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