Job Description for Miracle Kutchie Experience 3 – Art Retreat Exchange Program in Singapore with Children from Fukushima by TODAY IS THE DAY : Looking for a few project coordinators as intern.
Project coordinator(s) for The Art Retreat Exchange Program is an initiative to use art therapy as a medium of healing for children suffering from severe trauma from Fukushima, Japan. This is an internationally highly recognized educational and humanitarian program for children associating with Art Therapy and Fine Arts, Music and Dance creation etc. Plural project coordinators ( from Fine Arts Department, MA Art Therapy and Japanese Singapore resident ) will be planned to form for smoothly operating the program. Please check the supplemental description PROJECT OVERVIEW at Annex and the following websites for the details.
<http://todayistheday-singapore.org/>
<https://www.todayistheday-foundation.co>
<http://www.todayistheday-foundation.org/>
2016 Program video: <https://youtu.be/eEf_LrIQ8Ps>
Period starting the beginning of April continue to August 2017 and some administrative works will remain between September 2017 and February 2018 for submitting the mid-term & Final report to Singapore Red Cross. Dina Nerina (Level III BA (Hons) Arts Management) who was the last year’s Project Coordinator will be the Program Supervisor for this year’s program. Work together with other Project Coordinator from Fine Arts Department, MA Art Therapy and Japanese Resident in Singapore. Also, we are planning to visit Fukushima in Autumn 2017( September or November) for the Follow Up Session of Art Therapy and expecting project coordinator to coordinate and accompany with the group of MA Art Therapy volunteers from LASALLE College of the Arts.
Coordination of Programming, Promotion, Negotiation, Operation and Administrative work with Singapore Red Cross and other supporters, sponsors etc.
i.e. “Children Are Our Future” in Japan, Parents of Fukushima Children, TODAY IS THE DAY staff, Communication with MA Art Therapy Volunteers and Prof. Ronald Paul-Michael Henry Lay in LASALLE College of the Arts, Toshiko Kobayashi, Supervisor of MA Art Therapy, New York University, Origami Therapy Association, ATR-BC, LCAT, Saint Joseph Institute International, Miss Frances Powell, Head of Service and English Teacher | HIGH SCHOOL, Gillian Chong , International Service of Singapore Red Cross, Volunteer Group in including NUS students and Japanese Singapore residents, Home Stay Hosts, Fukushima Association in Singapore, National Gallery, STPI, SAM, Science Museum etc. Also, in the program, creates Welcome Party, Exhibition and Farewell Party. In addition to it, transport arrangements( Air ticket, bus etc.).
Expected Skills : Humanitarian Mind, Good Communication Ability, Organizing Ability of Logistics, Good for Team Work, Good for accounting, Good for handling money, Coordination Ability, Negotiation Skill, Writing Skill, Challenging & Creative Mind, Positive Thinker, Art Lover, Active Mind.
As one of activities for having trauma care out of serious disaster in Fukushima on 2011, TODAY IS THE DAY offers Art Therapy treatments for children age 9 and 12 who are living 22 km away from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plants in Fukushima in collaboration with LASALLE College of the Arts and Saint Joseph Institute International in Singapore and Children Are Our Future in Tokyo and New York University in New York within Art Retreat Exchange Program every summer since 2014.
The 4th Art Retreat Exchange Program “Miracle Kutchie Experience 3” the summer of 2017 the part of 14 days retreat program in Singapore will start on July 23rd and complete on August 6th. This year’s program will be partially financially supported by Singapore Red Cross etc. And from the end of August 2017 to the early in 2018, we will continue the Art Therapy Session called Follow Up Session in Hirono-town, Fukushima on the end of August, the end of September, the end of November, 2017 and the end of February, 2018.
The visionary foundation TODAY IS THE DAY associating with art for realizing the world transformation was created in 2013 (<http://todayistheday-foundation.co/>) in Hiroshima, Japan and TODAY IS THE DAY has the non-profit umbrellas in New York(501(c)(3), and Singapore. <http://todayistheday-foundation.org> or <http://todayistheday-singapore.org/>, TODAY IS THE DAY New York is the tax exempted organization (501(c)(3) and Singapore( TODAY IS THE DAY Ltd. – with the board member ( Singapore citizen Milenko & Delia Prvacki, Vinnie Quek, Singapore resident Ikkan Sanada and US resident Noritoshi Hirakawa ) and Japan( TODAY IS THE DAY Foundation) are non-profit organization.
The followings are articles of program published last year in Singapore.
TODAY Newspaper <http://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/art-therapy>
CNA Insider Facebook page. <https://www.facebook.com/cnainsider/videos/1110504965638846/>The program article from Channel NewsAsia <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/healing-art-for-fukushima/2990722.html?cid=FBia>
TODAY IS THE DAY FOUNDATION
New York Office ( TODAY IS THE DAY, INC. – 501(c)(3) status)
56 Beaver Street, Suite 803
New York, NY 10004, USA
+1-212-344-9141 (tel)
+1-212-344-5776 (fax)
+1-917-385-6147 (mobile)