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Wednesday, 24th August,"Cutting again"

I races back to my own project at home. At Kanazawa facory he is cutting my red granite for the project. This piece should be made and set in the new housing complex in Tokyo due to next week!!(HK)

Sunday, 21st August,"Kokaido Art Show~Finale"

The last day of the art show we have "World Music Performance" and "Charity Art Auction". You can enjoy all sorts of different exotic dances and music from Brasil, Ireland, Phillipine Tailand and Tahichi and Andes folklore group "Vervientos". We are still debt on art show acout, so we are desperate to sell out the works at the auction, but we managed to sell about 10,000pounds! Thank you very much everybody! (HK)

Saturday, 20th August,"Kokaido Art Show~Day 9"

	Flamenco dancers. (HK)
	Chorus line in summer kimono.
	Children playing with Megumi Honda's little objects. She says, everybody please try to hold them in hand and feel the texture.
	Kate's maze is the perfect place for the children for hide and seek. (HK)

Thursday, 18th August,"Kokaido Art Show~Day 6"

Art Show is going on very well. I managed to have a one day off at home.(HK)

Iwate Kokaido Art Show homepage：
http://www.iwate-kokaido.net/artshow/main.htm(HK)

Tuesday, 16th August,"Kokaido Art Show~Day 5"

Serious discussion about organising a charity auction. We need a lot of buyers!(HK)

Emily and Alisa are trying capuccino art. You make stencile to sprincle the cocoa powder onto capuccino（HK）

Monday, 15th August,"Homework and Kokaido Art Show~Day 4"

Japanee school will start soon after short summer holliday.(HK)

Ms.Chikako came to visit Art Show and listening my piece on the day of WW2 ended 60 years ago. She kindly helped the chinese translation for my piece.

Live musics every night.

DJ playing Sanba on stage. We are drinking beers to contribute the sales of the shops in Kokaido. (HK)

Saturday, 13th August,"Kokaido Art Show~Day 2"

	"Art Talk" - talk about art at the cafe outside. We have talks every weekends during art show. Today we have Ishikawa, Okada and Honda as speakers.
	"Art of Classic Concert", Shun Sasaki, trunpet, who is studying in Linz in Austoria, and Aya Hirama, piano, and Gen Saito, violin.
	Bruce Huebner playing japanese "Shakuhachi"( bamboo flute) in front of Okada's bamboo installation. He finished japanese clasic music study at Tokyo Art Accademy top in the results as a non-japanese, first time in the school history. (HK)

Friday, 12th August,"Kokaido Art Show~Grand Opening"

	Opening performance. Nabekura made video work about Kokaido and Mao Nakamura dancing with Piana'smusic along visual stories. This lead to the opening celemony. (HK)
	Mr.Ubukata, chiarman of the Kokaido Art Show organising committee, introducing participating artists on the stage.
	Hiroo Yasui, a cuator of Iwate Museum of Art, is making a tour with audiences to look at pieces in the art show.
	We also have five cafes and bars in and outside of Kokaido to get a pint of beer!
	In one room we put our auction pieces for the last day of the art show, as well as funcy little things to sell at this arty shop.
	Everybody is enjoying drinks after opening evnts completed.

Wednesday, 11th August,"Kokaido Art Show~Setting up"

Takuya Okada is using 180 bamboos for his piece.

Happy faces. Kate and Prof.Nagai and his students completed their Maze project installation.(HK)

Mr. Nozato is working high for Shinichi Mori's tower piece and five guys are trying to set acrylic boards with photographs slide into flames.

Emily asking Minako Ishikawa to write her adress to her note book, who has just completed her installation.

Takeshi Honda is glueing every piece of rice to his little rice house.

Takeshi Honda sets his "Rice House".

Megumi Honda is finishing up her curtain for her room as a part of her installation.

Satursday, 6th August,"Editing"

I'm not playing games... I'm trying to edit speeches for the Kokaido piece. I went around recycle shops in Morioka to get used amplifiers and speakers for my project.(HK)

Thursday, 4th August,"Kokaido Art Show~meeting"