While the world stumbles towards longer wars in the Middle East, emerged from millennia-old enmities, a Japanese-born artist living in New York and a few friends are working to start a new foundation in the present moment to express the nurturing unity of human bonds.
The accent, through artistic portrayals that break out and go beyond cultural boundaries, is on an optimistic cauldron of humankind’s hopeful ideals accompanied by people, helping one person at a time, to heal the wounds of past pain and suffering.
Significantly, the TODAY IS THE DAY foundation led by Noritoshi Hirakawa will open in Hiroshima and work on various art projects, including support for children impacted by the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Noritoshi explains: “The goal for the TODAY IS THE DAY Foundation is to rebuild consciousness as the starting point of everyone’s awareness. I believe that art’s most important function is to create moments in which humans are made to recognize one another’s humanity and transcend contemporary socio-cultural norms and expectations. Through artwork, performance, dance, lectures and workshops, the Foundation hopes to increase human awareness and create a better future world in which humans can coexist with respect and autonomy of free will…”
A fundraising event on November 27th in New York will go towards setting up the foundation and provide aid to medical doctor Junro Fuse in Japan who is treating children affected by radiation due to the recent Fukushima disaster.
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