“Send My Love to Everyone in Japan”
Opening event at The Water Poet pub, Folgate Street,
Thursday 31 March  6:00 – 11:00pm

Exhibition open at Quare on Friday 1 April – Sun 3 April 12:00 – 6:00pm
Art raffle and live events – Sunday 3 April 12:00 – 6:00pm

Come, enjoy and celebrate all things Japanese and not-so-Japanese alike! In order to lend a small hand to those who have been affected by the 11 March earthquake in Japan, The Ladies of the Press* (Ana Čavić & Renée O’Drobinak), Tomoko Aoki and Jonathan Velardi, along with a number of Guest Artitsts (final list available at http://www.quare.org.uk) will be hosting a hands-on charity arts night packed with a ?20 art raffle, original hand-printed eco bags, a live press desk making and printing zines on site and a lot of red balloons! Artists, onlookers and friends will all be invited to join in, and even contribute some impromptu artwork.

This show is inspired by one woman’s battle: In southern Miyagi prefecture, near the border to Fukushima, Renée O’Drobinak’s grandmother survived the earthquake and tsunami, with her house miraculously intact despite half the village being destroyed. While providing a temporary shelter for other family members, she has been hanging in there with no water, electricity, gas, and a very limited supply of food, though, the few times worried phonecalls from family in Tokyo reached her, she had wryly mentioned that her nose was a bit sniffly.
All proceeds will be donated to the Japan relief effort via the Red Cross.