The Art in Windows Show

Opening: 5 June 2009 Beatrixstraat, Leiden North
5 p.m. Poems (in Dutch) by Piet Franzen
5:15 p.m. The Leiden councillor for culture, Jan-Jaap de Haan, opens the exhibition.

Temporary installations / performances
3.30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
"Pooltable", Tim Flitcroft, (London, UK)
"Guess the Artist", Calum F. Kerr, (London, UK)
"His/her personal sky", Miyuki Kasahara, (Japan/London, UK)
"Parking Spaces for Important Visitors" , Sen McGlinn (Leiden)
"Greetings from Leiden", Sonja van Kerkhoff (Leiden)
5:30 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.: Tama McGlinn on piano on the street, (Leiden)

8 June

Tim Filcroft (London, UK), Miyuki Kasahara (Japan/London, UK),
Elaine Arkell (London, UK), Sonja van Kerkhoff (Leiden)

Miyuki Kasahara (Japan / London) spoke about her
'performance-participations'.

12 Juni, 10 - 12 p.m.

"Origami" by Miyuki Kasahara, Japan/London

Rondedans, Julianastraat 74

London based Japanese artist Miyuki Kasahara will invite the public to this using a 1 m x 1 m sheet of paper and fold it to make a traditional crane.
In the beginning of session, each participant will be asked to write their wishes on the big sheet of paper provided for each person.
Then Miyuki will demonstrate how to fold. This folding paper process will be a bit like gymnastic exercises as they need to use all of their limbs. After the session, we can go to the canal nearby or let them fly somewhere to make their wishes. Also they can keep them if they like.

Japanese legend states that if you fold 1000 cranes then a wish will be granted on you. So you can make silent wishes while your crane are leaving.
The making of these cranes became internationally known as a symbol of peace after 1000 were made by a Japanese girl Sadako Sasaki who died of Leukemia in 1955. This disease was contracted as a result of the Hiroshima bomb in 1945.
The launching of Giant Origami Peace Crane could represent an urban bombing raid or something more hopeful.

Sunday, 6 June, 12 p.m., 19 June, 5 - 6 p.m.

Sonja van Kerkhoff gave walking tours starting at Beatrixstraat nr. 3. (corner of the Bernhardkade) and finishing at "de kooi" community centre, Driftstraat 49, about an hour later.