As the title says, I wish you all a very happy new year 2019. Yesterday, on the actual New Year’s Day, I did my favorite activity on that day, that is I stayed at home. Meanwhile, most Japanese people tend to go to the shrine for Hatsumode (literally “the first […]
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You know what happens when you write two blogs in two different languages, with roughly (but not always) the same content? Sometimes, you “forget” some posts, sometimes you imagine that they exist when they don’t. And this is what happened to me a couple of days ago. Looking for a […]
There are two aspects of the Setouchi Triennale that I seldom talk about on this blog – mostly because until recently I rarely had the occasion to attend them, and as far as visitors are concerned, they’re rarely aware of them and only stumble upon them randomly. I’m talking about […]
So, on Sunday on Ogijima happened something that only happens every two years; its Summer matsuri! Of course, I was there. If you want some background information about it, let me invite you to read my post about the matsuri of two years ago. This year, I was gladly […]
The Setouchi Triennale 2016 is opening in a few hours (in two hours and a half as I type these lines), that means I still have a few minutes to post a preview here (couldn’t do it yesterday). 🙂 So yesterday I was on Ogijima, and I got to […]
After two months of absence, I finally returned to Ogijima four days ago. I was starting to think that I was cursed or something. Since my last visit back in February, every single Sunday, something prevented me from going; be it having to work (yes, it was that time of […]
Last February I went to Ogijima twice, two weekends in a row. I think it’s the first time I did that outside of the Setouchi Triennale. I went for various reasons, the main ones being interviews. I was interviewed for the first weekend (I may or may not tell […]
As you may know, the Setouchi Triennale’s main goal is to revitalize the islands of the Seto Inland Sea. The Triennale is an amazing idea to trigger that revitalization, but while it is necessary, an art festival every three years is not enough to attain that goal. If one […]
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been more than one year since I last talked (briefly) about Onba Factory on the blog! Time to change this. I guess the place has become so familiar to me that I’m starting to take it for granted. I shouldn’t, as you may know, […]