Midori Ward's appeal through art (FY2020)

Art events were held online until January 31, 2021 (Reiwa 3) that can be easily participated from a personal computer or smartphone at home.
Set in the wooden school building of the former Yokohama Municipal Yamashita Elementary School (currently Yamashita Regional Exchange Center) built in the middle of the war, art works utilizing blackboards and old agricultural equipment sleeping in the reference room were produced and exhibited, and the production of the works The scenery and video works were distributed sequentially on the event special WEB page (end of publication).
In Google Street View <Indoor View> (outside site), you can see the inside of the museum where the art works are displayed in a 360-degree panorama image.

From Saturday, December 5, 2020 (Reiwa 2) to Sunday, January 31, 2021 (Reiwa 3)

Yamashita Regional Exchange Center (1777-1 Kitahatsusakucho, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi)

Anyone can participate.

Yamashita Gakusha Cultural Festival, a project to communicate the appeal of Midori Ward through art in 2020 (PDF: 4,312KB)

The venue, Yamashita Regional Exchange Center, utilizes the wooden school building of Yamashita Elementary School, which was built in 1942, and is the only existing wooden school building of Yokohama City School. It is a building. Yamashita Elementary School is a historic school that was founded in the Meiji era as one of the oldest elementary schools in Yokohama City as "Gakusha".
Taking advantage of these roots, we revived as a fictitious school called "Yamashita Gakusha" and held an art event online to disseminate local attractions (nature, agriculture, history, cityscape, etc.) to children and other "next generation".

• The first-floor meeting room (former library) where the bookshelf remained was used as a "staff room" during the branch school of Yamashita Elementary School before closing school.
• In this event, valuable materials and photographs stored at Yamashita Elementary School were exhibited, and the event was held.Midori Ward HeritageYeahLocal production for local consumptionI would like to introduce you.
• The production and exhibition of local works ended on Sunday, December 13, 2020 (Reiwa 2).
  Google Street View <Indoor View> (External Site)Then, you can see the exhibition of the work in a 360-degree panorama image.

Staff room during the branch school days

Current situation (meeting room on the first floor)

• In this event, in the corridor on the first floorChildren's WorksWe exhibited it.
  ※The production and exhibition of local works ended on Sunday, December 13, 2020 (Reiwa 2).

Corridor during the branch school days

Current state (2nd floor)

• The salon room (former Japanese-style room) was newly built in conjunction with the opening of the Yamashita Regional Exchange Center in 1989.
• This event will be held.Collaboration work between old farm equipment and artWe exhibited it.
• The production and exhibition of local works ended on Sunday, December 13, 2020 (Reiwa 2).
  Google Street View <Indoor View> (External Site)Then, you can see the exhibition of the work in a 360-degree panorama image.

Current state (salon room)

• The cooking room was newly built in conjunction with the opening of the Yamashita Regional Exchange Center in 1989.
• It is not used in this event.

• The entertainment room was used as a "classroom" during the branch school of Yamashita Elementary School before closing school.
• It is not used in this event.

Current state (entertainment room)

• The office was used as a "health room" during the branch school of Yamashita Elementary School before closing school.
• It is not used in this event.

Health room during the branch school days

• The wooden stairs that remain since the construction in 1942 (Showa 17) are still active about 80 years later. It is a memorable place where many children climbed and descended.
• This event will be held.Video works by dance and musicI made it.

Wooden stairs during the branch school days

Current state (wooden stairs)

Wooden stairs during the branch school days

Current state (wooden stairs)

• The reference room, which contained old agricultural equipment, was used as a "classroom" during the branch school of Yamashita Elementary School before closing school.
• This event will be held.Blackboard artIt was used as a production venue, and the atmosphere of the classroom was reproduced by arranging elementary school desks and chairs.Blackboard artYou can continue to see it in the library.
• Google Street View <Indoor View> (External Site)Then, you can see the exhibition of the work in a 360-degree panorama image.

Classrooms during the branch school days

Current state (reference room)

• The middle meeting room was used as a "classroom" during the branch school of Yamashita Elementary School before closing school.
• This event will be held.Collaboration work between old farm equipment and artWe exhibited it.
• The production and exhibition of local works ended on Sunday, December 13, 2020 (Reiwa 2).
  Google Street View <Indoor View> (External Site)Then, you can see the exhibition of the work in a 360-degree panorama image.

Classrooms during the branch school days

Current situation (middle conference room)

• The library (former elementary meeting room) was used as the "principal's office" during the branch school of Yamashita Elementary School before closing school.
• It is not used in this event.

• The gateposts and gates of the school gates still exist before the closure of the school, leaving the impression of elementary school.
• In this event, beside the school gate.Light's art work "Hikari no Minoru"We exhibited it.
• The exhibition of "Hikari no Fruit" ended on Sunday, December 27, 2020 (Reiwa 2).
  Google Street View <Indoor View> (External Site)Then, you can see the exhibition of the work in a 360-degree panorama image.

School gates (gateposts and gates) during the branch school days

Current state (gateposts and gates)

The production and exhibition of local works ended on Sunday, December 13, 2020 (Reiwa 2).
In Google Street View <Indoor View> (outside site), you can see the work exhibition in a 360-degree panorama image.

Using the blackboards sleeping in the archives, graduates of the prefectural Shiroyama High School Art Department in Midori Ward produced and exhibited artworks. You can continue to see the blackboard art in the library.
In addition, the production process of blackboard art is distributed as a video work.

We produce and distribute video works using dance and music on the stairs of the former Yamashita Elementary School wooden school building and three nearby Midori Ward heritage sites.

Remains of Nenbutsu Bridge on the Onda River、The ruins of Arakawa Jinya, Oyamamura、Monument to the site of Yamada Ukyonoshin Castle

Utilizing the old agricultural equipment displayed in the archives, we created and exhibited art works that convey the state of old agriculture and the thoughts of people with good fortune.
In addition, the production process of art works is distributed as video works.

We produced a light art work "Hikari no Fruit", which combines a fruit bag used in fruit cultivation and LED lamps, and exhibited it on the ground.
"Hikari no Minoru" was produced in advance at workshops with children from nearby kindergartens and elementary schools.

The fruit of Hikari

We exhibited the results and works of local learning about the Midori Ward and local communities.

Yamashita Elementary School, Nakayama Elementary School, Nagatsuta Daini Elementary School

Local specialty product appeal poster (Yamashita Elementary School)

Sweet potato lease straw lease (Yamashita Elementary School)

Osuki Nakayama Town Exploration Map (Nakayama Elementary School)

My mayor Tsuda (Nagatsuta Daini Elementary School)

As a guide from Nakayama Station to the venue, works were exhibited along the left bank of the Onda River (Nakayama Ohashi-Umeda River confluence) with the theme of "agriculture and living things".

• From Saturday, December 5, 2020 to Sunday, December 13, 2020
  From 9:00 to 17:00 each day
• Closed days: Sunday afternoon on 6th, Monday, 7th, Sunday afternoon on 13th

• Yamashita Regional Exchange Center (1777-1 Kitahatsusakucho, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi)
  From the north exit of Nakayama Station on the JR Yokohama Line, Municipal Subway Green Line
  [Noriba 3] Bus bound for Aobadai Station (municipal, Tokyu, Kananaka) Get off at "Yamashita Elementary School" and walk 2 minutes
  [Noriba 4] Get off at Yatsu Tahara circulation bus (municipal) "Hojuin-mae" and walk 2 minutes
• There is no use of parking, so please use public transportation.

• You could see the production scenery and some exhibitions of art works utilizing blackboards and old agricultural equipment sleeping in the archives.

• From 16:00 to 18:00 on Saturday, December 12, 2020 (Reiwa 2)

• Yamashita Regional Exchange Center Ground

• The production scenes and video works of the works distributed online were compiled into short films, and screened multiple times on a 200-inch screen installed on the ground.
• Vegetable sales from Midori Ward (from 11 o'clock. It will end as soon as it is sold out.
• Local production and local consumption support shop selling curry using vegetables from Midori Ward (11:00 to 18:00)

• About 200 people
  ※You can enter and exit. Admission may be restricted or replaced if the capacity is exceeded.

• When visiting, please cooperate with "wearing a mask", "temperature measurement at the entrance", "hand washing and alcohol disinfection", etc.
• If the content of the event is changed or partially canceled due to the situation of the new coronavirus infection, we will inform you on the website.