2024.04.09
FY2023 Creative Initiatives at Hamamatsu City
The Hamamatsu Creative City Promotion Council titles creative initiatives enacted by citizens “Creative Core Projects” and began promoting them to the public in 2021. We hope that by sharing information about the city’s creative initiatives, more people will gain new ideas and hints for their own activities.
We have selected the five most noteworthy projects, which we refer to as “monitoring projects”, and introduced them in a booklet and online focusing on the key persons of each project. You may view them in the English section of “Creative City Hamamatsu” website. Here are an excerpt of each project. Please enjoy!
1 Hamamatsu Power Food Project
Aiming to create “Hamamatsu, the No.1 city of gastronomy in Japan & recognized by the world”, we are a private group actively promoting the consumption of healthy & local produce, known as “Hamamatsu Power Food”. The city boasts the nation’s highest healthy life expectancy. With over 100 members including producers, processors and restaurants, we are dedicated to boosting tourism and revitalizing the local community utilizing the power of food.
2 Hamamatsu Act City Academy of Music Project
We have made it our mission to not only provide our citizens with opportunities for lifelong learning and information about musical culture, but also to help foster talents who will be go on to be active in the musical world, both nationally and internationally. We hope that this will lead to an improvement in our city’s civilian culture and a revitalization of our local communities. In particular, we are focusing our efforts on developing soft projects which will nurture children’s sensibilities and enrich the lives of Hamamatsu’s citizens through cultural power, as well as foster the next generation who will further our cultural arts and local culture.
https://www.creative-hamamatsu.jp/topics/hamamatsu-act-city-academy-of-music-project/
3 Activities by COLORS, a Group of Young People of Foreign Heritage
We provide guidance regaring career paths and employment opportunities to young people in Japan with foreign heritage, and promote awareness of these people and their activities within Japanese society. All members of COLORS are young people of foreign heritage who have received education, entered university or found jobs here in Japan. Leveraging their own experiences, they actively promote a wide range of tailored support services in cooperation with HICE, Hamamatsu Foundation for International Communication and Exchange, such as consultations, writing and lectures.
4 Forest Morning Market
We are an organization based in Hamamatsu, active since December 2021 with an objective of creating an sustainalbe society. We currently hold the Forest Morning Market twice a month, which focuses on the sale of organic farm produce under the theme of Food x Agriculture x Environment.
https://www.creative-hamamatsu.jp/topics/forest-morning-market/
5 Hamamatsu Creative City Booster Project
We host creative workshops lead by expert instructors working both locally and outside the city in various creative fields with the aim of fostering creative awareness among participants and overcoming barriers that hinder creative activity.
https://www.creative-hamamatsu.jp/topics/hamamatsu-creative-city-booster-project/
