Gogyoshi Art Project International (GAPI) supports “World Tsunami Awareness Day”

GAPI has developed a concept to support #TsunamiDay, by creating art on that day and sharing it online across the globe. World Tsunami Awareness Day is an event which fits Gogyoshi Art Project International (GAPI) like a glove.

Remembering Fukushima in 2011, while also thinking of the latest tsunami in Indonesia, floods across the Mediterranean -  in Spain, in Portugal - and also in the Americas, we have to act in a positive way and in the way we know best: artmaking.

All GAPI participants (alongside other artists who want to join) are asked to create something artistic to make a statement, such as a gogyoshi, and to post it (as a photo) on our Facebook  on the 5th of November 2019*. 

Participants will have to share your artwork on our Facebook page and share it on this GAPI Facebook group page, just as you will share the artworks of others who participate on this one-day project.
Use #TsunamiDay if you post your artwork. By doing so, GAPi creates a tsunami of artworks.

GAPI raises awareness of tsunami, and publicizes #TsunamiDay, producing an elaborate display from a simple idea. 

Our Request:

Are there any possibilities to support an exhibition of a number of specially designed A1 prints at your event or in your city? We hope you can/will take care of the printing of 50-100 A1 posters. Perhaps you know some companies who can provide them?

We are thinking of an exhibition date on World Tsunami Day in November 2020. Of course, the prints can be exhibited for longer and stay in your organization.

Here are some examples of prints that have been exhibited in the republic of Korea in 2018. 

Alongside mentioning your name in our communication, you can also place your logos, etc, on the prints.

For more information, please contact us.

With regards,

Fred van Welie, public relations and curator GAPi ([email protected])

Ed Hanssen, initiator and curator GAPi