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Gaza Memorial Service
Gaza-Israel Conflict 2023
For 30,000 martyrs

Thank you for participating in the reading.

The next meeting will be held on December 22nd. Thank you for your continued support.

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Request for participation

Makiko Sakurai has been holding this Gaza memorial service twice a year for 15 years, but the conflict that began last October has not yet ended. This July, we will have to read out the names of many people, which is very unfortunate. The memorial service is scheduled to last seven hours, and artists who have agreed to participate will also be participating. Please join us in reading out the names. We are also accepting donations for the venue fees. We would appreciate your cooperation.

Makiko Association Secretariat

■Event Overview

Date and time: Sunday, July 7, 2024 12:00-19:00

(Doors open at 11:30 / You can enter and exit at any time)

Venue: Otoheya Square

Location: Alps Building B1F, 4-4-13 Takadanobaba, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

Access: 2 minutes walk from Toyama Exit of Takadanobaba Station on the JR Yamanote Line

Authors: Makiko Sakurai, Takahide Kobayashi, Masako Yoshida, Yukana Yamaguchi, Zhenhao Xiao, Fumika Oki

Fee: Free (tea and snacks provided)

●Applications and inquiries: Makiko no Kai Secretariat

makikoclub2022@gmail.com/ 090-9236-0836

●Donations: If you support the holding of this event, we would be very grateful if you could donate towards the venue fees.

You can choose from the following ticket types:

https://x.gd/BwaAy

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

■Program

11:30 Doors open

11:50 Explanation of the program and reading

12:00 Opening remarks

"Scattered Flowers"

12:40 Gregorian Chant (Motoki Sakurai)

13:00 "Shomyo Regular Ceremony (Ohara Sanzenin Temple)" 2.5 hours

``Three bows,'' ``Seven Buddha precepts,'' ``Four offerings,'' ``Konenbutsu,'' and ``Buddha theory of the Amida Sutra.''

14:50 Piano (Toshiaki Komori)

"Massacre," "Great Repentance," and "Post-Song"

16:00 Drums (HIKO)

17:00 "Shomyo Regular Times (Shinnyo-do)" 1 hour

"Scattering Flowers," "First Remembrance of the Buddha," "Second Remembrance of the Buddha," and "The Amitabha Sutra"

17:30 Electric Taishogoto (Kenichi Takeda)

"Gasatsu", "Meikou", "Auguta"

18:00 Shimai (Akira Yoshimatsu) Gregorian Chant (Motoki Sakurai)

18:30 "Kawarikagara"

19:00 Closing remarks

Participating artists (in order of appearance)

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Motoki Sakurai

Conductor and singer. Graduated from the Hiroshima University Faculty of Education, Department of Music and Culture, and the Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Music, Department of Vocal Music. Graduated from the same university's Graduate School of Early Music with a focus on Baroque vocal music. He has studied vocal music with Kazuya Edagawa, Haruka Masuda, Katsunori Kono, Chieko Teratani, and Ryo Sakurada, baroque vocal music with Yukari Nonoshita, choral conducting with Alexander Nagy, conducting with Nori Imamura, early music performance with Tetsuro Hanai, voice training with Yoshiaki Kokubo and Hiroki Iwasaki, special vocalization with William Tokuhisa, screaming with Mahon, Indian classical music with Taro Terahara, and martial arts with Hidetoshi Mitsuoka. He heads the Salicus Kammerchor, Ensemble Salicus, and Chor Eleusis. He is also a lecturer at the Fons Floris Early Music Academy and the Koeda Ir. Choir. He was the performance committee chairperson of the Tokyo University of the Arts Bach Cantata Club from 2013 to 2015. He is also the leader of the vocal ensemble Alamire. He is also a member of Ensemble XENOS, The Cygnus Vocal Octet, Japan Chamber Choir, Vocal Ensemble Capella, and Early Music Ensemble Contraponto.

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Toshiaki Komori

Composer/pianist. After graduating from the Tokyo University of the Arts, he majored in composition, and completed his graduate studies at the same university. He also writes and translates on music education and the arts in general. He has won numerous awards and been selected for the Japan Symphony Foundation Composition Award, among others. He has performed both in Japan and overseas. He is a former lecturer at Toho Gakuen School of Music. He is a pianist with the improvisation group "Kukan Muwei" and a synthesizer player with the psychedelic ensemble "Jashumon." He has co-authored seven books.

Photo: Hiromichi Ugaya

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Instant Crazy Drummer HIKO

He works part-time as a dishwasher, goes for walks, paints, and occasionally plays the drums in public, accompanied by biker gang members, dancers, calligraphers, martial artists, painters, and instrumentalists.

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Kenichi Takeda

A Japanese Taishogoto player and music critic , he has been active since the mid- 1970s as a performer in the fields of free jazz and avant-garde improvised music, which was then called new jazz, and has also published critiques of such improvised music in music magazines and literary critics.

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Akira Yoshimatsu

Chants and dance. Performs and directs his own works using Noh chants and dance. Appears in "Ura," "The Prostitute of Pattaya," "The Little Match Girl," "Urashima Taro," "Maria Yotsuya," "The Plague God," and other original Noh works by Sakurai Makiko. Active across borders, he performs on Noh stages, in concert halls, live music venues, on the streets, and on riverbanks. Overseas, he has performed in Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and South Korea with performances using Chants and dance.

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