Toshima knitting and connecting town art exhibition started * Art that weaves trees in the park with more than 5,000 motifs knitted by about 480 people

Exhibition period: December 1, 2021 (Wednesday) -January 31, 2022 (Monday)

Sunshine City Co., Ltd. and Hibiya Amenis Co., Ltd. will create new Ikebukuro art and culture together with people who are attached to Ikebukuro through "Yarn bombing", which weaves trees and buildings in the park using yarn. The "Detsunagumachi Art" project is underway.

Knitting workshops have been held in various parts of Ikebukuro since September of this year, and knitting drawings (design drawings for knitting) have been published on the website to solicit motifs from all over the country. A collection of more than a number of motifs.

In addition to the participants in the knitting workshop, this project is being carried out by students of the Knit Design Department of the Cultural Clothing Academy, elderly people who visited the Toshima Ward Care Prevention Center, Sunshine City employees, Toshima Ward staff, and local communities. It connects people from person to person, such as knitting groups, and various people of all ages from 4 to 90 years old participate from all over Japan, from Toshima in the north to Kyushu in the south.

In 2021, we knit about 100 trees in Toshima Midori Disaster Prevention Park (nicknamed IKE / SUNPARK) and "Ikebukuro" (*) in JR Ikebukuro Station. It will be exhibited from December 1st (Wednesday) to January 31st (Monday) 2022. After the exhibition period, some of the works will be transformed into rugs used on the lawn and will be donated to IKE / SUNPARK.

* Owl statue outside the north ticket gate of JR Ikebukuro Station

・ Exhibition overview

Exhibition period: December 1, 2021 (Wednesday) -January 31, 2022 (Monday)
* Only Ikebukuro in JR Ikebukuro Station will be on display from December 10th (Friday).
Exhibition location: Toshima Midori Disaster Prevention Park (nicknamed IKE / SUNPARK), Seibu Ikebukuro Main Store 9th Floor Rooftop = Food and Green Aerial Garden, JR Ikebukuro Station "Ikebukuro"
Organizer: Toshima Knitting and Connecting Town Art Project Team <Sunshine City / Hibiya Amenis Co., Ltd.>
Cooperation: Ikebukuro Community College / epietriz Co., Ltd./GLOCAL CAFÉ IKEBUKURO / Clover Co., Ltd./Seibu Ikebukuro Main Store /DMC/Naito Shoji Co., Ltd./Nippon Vogue Co., Ltd./Hamanaka Co., Ltd./Cultural Clothing Academy Knit Design Department / Gen Co., Ltd. Hiro / Yuzawaya Shoji Co., Ltd./la droguerie Ikebukuro store / WACCA IKEBUKURO (in alphabetical order)
Sponsor: Toshima Ward
General supervision: Knitting master 203gow (Niimaru coral)
Workshop Lecturer: Akiko Arima (Frog Studio Handiwork Department) / Makoto Imanaga / Large Content Child (DMC) / Hiroko Kondo (Parfait Project Tokyo) / Mika Sakura / Popopo Honpo / Mina Yokota / Miwa Yamaguchi (minamiwa)

★ For details on this project as a whole, please see the special website below.
・ Special site
https://sunshinecity.jp/event/entry-19279.html

・ Flow of "Toshima Knitting and Connecting Town Art" made by everyone

① Collect motifs

② Connect motifs

③ Knit the motif

④ Completion

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