Talk Series #5 English Summary

Ask Tengyo Kura about life, independence, friends etc....

At the shared apartment on the third floor of Takeshi Cultural Center Renjaku-cho, Takeshi's life experiment has begun. There are three cohabitants: field worker Koya Sato, artist Takahashi 'Takakaan' Seiji, and Vagabond(the wanderer) Tengyo Kura who adores Takeshi. They looked back on their shared life and they exchanged opinions about the value of living as a friend who is neither a family member nor a supporter. They examined the difficulties of living together in such a position and considered the perspective of an openly shared life by various people including people with severe intellectual disabilities.

Guest: Tengyo Kura (Vagabond, teacher, communicator, story-teller) Seiji ‘Takakaan’ Takahashi (Someone who tries to create a venue which gradually turns into a welfare facility) Koya Sato (Graduate student at Chiba University)
Interviewer: Hiromi Takabayashi, Yuichi Sasaki, Midori Kubota (Approved Specified Non Profit Organisation Creative Support Let’s)

Event Report (in Japanese) is here.

English Translation: Utako Shibatsuji-Prerrin, Michael Smith-Welch
英訳：芝辻ペラン詩子、マイケル・スミス-ウェルチェ