Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
“Orphan Meets Artist” 2nd Cambodia/Japan Workshop
The 2nd video conference of the workshop entitled “Hanbun Hanbun/Pakondal” Cambodian HIV/AIDS Orphans Meet Japanese Artists”, was held on November 15, connecting the Tokyo Development Learning Center and the World Bank Cambodia Phnom Penh office
Participating in the event in Cambodia were 16 HIV/AIDS orphans aged 12 and 13, who live in their own community in Phnom Penh and are supported by an NGO called TASK.
Continuing from the 1st workshop , animation artist Chikara Matsumoto gave a demonstration to the children on how to explain their pictures.
Before the children made their presentation from Cambodia, the artist gave a demonstration.Praying in front of his favourite shrine.
- Tokyo Development Learning Center
He drew a picture of scenery remembered from his childhood and pasted it on the surface of the diorama set. Then he climbed into the cut out in the set and explained his scene with gestures.
Next, the children made their presentation.
Houv explains about his favorite place.
Volunteer interpreter, Shintani (right) and artist Somphon (back)
- World Bank Cambodia
Making gestures when making presentation
- Tokyo Development Learning Center
In the previous session, children had drawn colorful pictures of their houses, pond and rice field, lotus, and Christmas tree and snowman.
Learning from Matsumoto’s demonstration, they pasted their pictures on the diorama set and went in the cut out of the set and presented with big gestures.
From the filmed video, a few shots were cut off to be used for creating the ‘parapara manga-cho’- ‘cut off animation’ flip book. The filmed pictures were put together in a time-lapse sequence and participants in both Japan and Cambodia enjoyed watching the video together, sharing the joy in “Hanbun Hanbun”,playful Japanese expression meaning “fifty-fifty”.
Iemura of Tokyo Wonder Site and world wide leading Vietnam artist, Dinh Q. Le monitored the session
- Tokyo Development Learning Center
Video monitor was decorated by the children’s art
- World Bank Cambodia
In the third workshop, we will print out the filmed pictures in Tokyo and together with the participants, we will bind them into flip books. After completion, we will send these flipbooks to Cambodia as presents for the children.
NGO TASK staff and children, did you enjoy the workshop?
- World Bank Cambodia
Video Archive
Please watch the event digest and artists’ interview
