The Reborn-Art Festival 2019, a comprehensive arts festival featuring art, music, and food, will be held for 58 days from August 3rd to September 29th, mainly in the Ishinomaki and Oshika areas of Miyagi Prefecture.


The Reborn-Art Festival, chaired by music producer Takeshi Kobayashi, is a new comprehensive arts festival where visitors can enjoy art, music, and food in a natural setting, created together with local people. The first festival, held for 51 days from July 22nd, 2017, mainly in the Ishinomaki and Oshika areas, attracted a total of 260,000 visitors.

The Ishinomaki and Oshika areas were one of the areas severely affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. This will be a place where contemporary artists from Japan and abroad will visit, create artworks while interacting with the local community, hold music events of various styles, and have famous chefs from all over Japan meet local people and ingredients to serve dishes that can only be enjoyed here.It will be a place where many "encounters" will be generated.The aim is for these "encounters" to spark various cycles that will lead to regional revitalization and promotion.

Reborn-Art Dining restaurant (2017)
This second event will be held on Ajishima Island in addition to Miyagi Prefecture's Oshika Peninsula, Ishinomaki City, and Matsushima Bay. The art exhibition area will be curated by Shimabukuro Michihiro, Toyoshima Hideki, Arima Kaoru, and Watari Etsuko & Koichi and Nakazawa Shinichi of the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art. Food direction will be handled by Jerome Waag and Harakawa Shinichiro. Participating artists include Yoshimasu Gozo, Aoba Ichiko, Shimabukuro Michihiro, Imamura Gen, Murase Kyoko, Naoya Nawa, Sakamoto Daizaburo + Okubo Yuko, Tsuda Nao, Horiba Yumiko, Ozawa Mika, Aoki Toshinao, Tanaka Akio, Yamagata Arts District, Kiwamari-so in Ishinomaki, ART DRUG CENTER, Asano Tadanobu, Ito Zon + Aoki Ryoko, Komiya Marina, Lois Weinberger, Zai Kooning, Kusama Yayoi, Masuda Sebastian, and Parco Kinoshita.

On August 3rd and 4th, a music event will be held at Ishinomaki City General Gymnasium to mark the opening of the 58-day festival, and there will also be a number of other not-to-be-missed music events, including a performance of the final version of the post-rock opera "Kenji in the Fourth Dimension," the first act of which was performed in 2017.

Kenji in the Fourth Dimension (2017)


Be sure to visit this year's "Reborn-Art Festival 2019," where various areas of Ishinomaki city and the Oka Peninsula will be decorated with lush nature, including the new exhibition area of Ajishima, curated by contemporary artists who participated in the first year, and multiple exhibitions will be held in a line across the peninsula.

Advance exchange tickets for the Art Appreciation Passport, which will allow you to view all the art works during the festival, are now on sale. For more details, please visit the sales website (https://www.asoview.com/channel/tickets/5GbyybJkub/?utm_source=ticket_direct).