Artistic Outreach in Hospitals Project
Although various artistic outreach activities exist in which musicians / artists take their music / art works to show to the people who have difficulty visiting music halls and museums, the Artistic Outreach in Hospitals Project delivers music / art exclusively to hospitals and welfare facilities. Under this project, we foster the involvement of artists in high-quality artistic activities in these sites, specifically master class students majoring in fine arts and music in the graduate schools of Aichi University of the Arts (AUA).
For this purpose, we created new classes specializing in artistic activities provided in hospitals and welfare facilities, by expanding the Arts Management classes offered by the Graduate School of Music (with classes opened as Project Study courses in the Graduate School of Fine Arts) in the year 2017-18. Through these classes, students gained theoretical knowledge and practice of artistic outreach activities dedicated to children (age 2-6) in the first semester and to hospitals, facilities for the disabled, etc. in the second semester, to gain know-how about these activities, and to acquire the necessary skills to plan and carry them out.
Artistic outreach activities in these places provide healing to the people, help to improve their quality of life, provide students with opportunities to experience the reality, and enable AUA to contribute to local communities.
Although the necessity of artistic activities in medical- and welfare facilities is recognized, know-how about the activities has not yet been established. Under these circumstances, the Artistic Outreach in Hospitals Project is expected to generate significant results for Aichi Prefecture as well as the rest of Japan through participating these activities at AUA.
Past activities
Photo gallery
Reports
Hospital Outreach Project Report 2022
Hospital Outreach Project Report 2021
Hospital Outreach Project Report 2020
Hospital Outreach Project Report 2019
List of outreach activities 2018
List of outreach activities 2017
Project members (2023)
| Chief representative | Masayuki Yasuhara | Professor, Faculty of Music, Department of Music, Composition (Musicology) |
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| Assistant representative | Naoki Sato | Professor, Faculty of Art, Department of Design and Craft, Design |
| Supervisor | Ryujiro Miki | Part-time Lecturer, art manager |
| Advisors | Satsuki Inoue | Professor Emeritus, musicology |
| Kaori Murase | Part-timeLecturer, Music therapy | |
| Coordinators | Yukari Nakamura | Graduate, clarinet player |
| Takanori Ishikawa | Graduate, saxophone player | |
| Yuya Inukai | Graduate, piano player | |
| Yukari Kurahashi | Graduate, piano player | |
| Office manager | Megumi Shichijo | Lecturer, Faculty of Music, Department of Music, Composition (Musicology) |
| Administrator | Yoko Hata | Graduate,musicology |
Contribution from Mr. and Mrs. Tsutsui
(Chair and Vice Chair of Tokai Medical Products, Inc.)
In the year 2017-18, we received a contribution of five million yen (approximately US$ 50,000) from Mr. Nobumasa Tsutsui and his wife, Mrs. Yoko Tsutsui, chair and vice chair respectively of Tokai Medical Products, Inc., who agreed with the purpose of the Artistic Outreach in Hospitals Project conducted by AUA. Taking this opportunity, we would like to extend to them our sincere gratitude.
We usually use this contribution to pay rewards and/or transportation fees for players, musical instruments and equipment, and those who created leaflets for the concerts in hospitals, and so on.
We also received some valuable advice from Mrs. Yoko Tsutsui with experience tending to her second daughter, Ms. Yoshimi Tsutsui, who spent a long period in the hospital.
She told us that what mattered in artistic outreach activities in hospitals was not holding luxurious concerts, but the extent to which we could satisfy and comfort art lovers in hospitals through performances.
We intend to hold more varied forms of concerts and activities, depending on the situation in the future