Jins Holdings Co., Ltd. More open art experiences for local children! “Miruik Art Festival vol.2” held on 5/11 (Sun)

[Jins Holdings Co., Ltd.] More open art experiences for local children! “Miruik Art Festival vol.2” held on 5/11 (Sun) ​
JINS Holdings Co., Ltd. Press release: April 23, 2025 More open art experiences for local children! “Miruik Art Festival vol.2” held on 5/11 (Sun) The Community Coexistence Division of JINS Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as JINS) will hold an art experience called “Miruik Art Festival Vol. 2” on May 11, 2025 (Sunday) at “JINS PARK” in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, as an event for local children to experience the joy of viewing. Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/27384/312/27384-312-80cc0f9f83ac3a691fd74c225be676bc-2064×684.jpg Nurture children’s abilities through “viewing experiences” and create opportunities for local communities to experience the joy of seeing “JINS PARK”, which opened in 2021, has a plaza within the facility that local residents can freely use, and is a facility that aims to become a hub for the local community as a “place for everyone” like a park. The Regional Coexistence Business Department, which was established in the same year, plays a central role and regularly holds events at JINS PARK, creating new interactions in the local community. Nowadays, events organized and managed by local people are held almost every weekend, and the way JINS PARK is used to revitalize the community is attracting attention from many quarters as a way for companies to coexist with the local community. JINS has also been working on “Seeing Education” activities to “cultivate the eyes to see” of children who will create the future, such as classes to learn about eyes and light, art exhibitions and workshops at JINS stores, and the “More Outdoor Play Project” that supports outdoor play from the perspective of preventing the progression of myopia. The “Miruik Art Festival” is an initiative born out of JINS PARK’s interaction with the local community, and as part of “Miruik = Seeing
Education”, it is an art experience where local children develop various skills through a new “viewing experience” and experience the joy of viewing. A workshop will be held to encourage children’s free thinking with artists from Gunma Prefecture as instructors! The “Miruik Art Festival” was first held in September last year with the aim of providing an opportunity for children to develop new
perspectives by welcoming current artists as instructors and holding workshops that encourage free thinking. Five workshops were held at the same time, including “Peek and Peek” by artist Marie Ikura, and the event was a great success throughout the day, with many people participating in all of the workshops. At this year’s “Miruik Art Festival vol.2,” we will be holding a “Encyclopedia of Insects” by Kenichi Obana, an artist from Ota City, Gunma Prefecture. Participants will create their own original insects by combining colored paper and cutting sheets. On the day of the event, we will also be holding workshops such as “Scientific Art: Let’s have fun with iron sand and magnets!” and “Art & Design: Let’s draw pictures on shopping bags!” with the cooperation of Maebashi City’s design office “Terasawa Office/Kobo” in planning and management. The Regional Coexistence Business Department will continue to use JINS PARK as a starting point to promote interaction with the community and promote initiatives that allow us to grow together with the community. “JINS PARK Mirik Art Festival vol.2” Workshop Overview Encyclopedia of Insects ~Where insects live~ [Date and time] May 11, 2025 (Sunday) 13:00-16:00 [Contents] Participants create their own original insects using colored paper, cutting sheets, etc. You can take the finished insects home or place them in the forests and fields depicted on the large glass surface of JINS PARK. Let’s make your own insects in Maebashi during this season, when the greenery deepens and the insect life increases. Scientific Art Let’s play with iron sand and magnets! [Date and time] May 11, 2025 (Sunday) 13:00-16:00 [Content] Let’s play freely with lots of iron sand! Who can move iron sand the fastest? [Cooperation] Akira Kato Art & Designing Let’s draw pictures on shopping bags! [Date and time] May 11, 2025 (Sunday) 13:00-16:00 [Contents] Try drawing pictures on the inside and outside of shopping bags that are bigger than you, or draw pictures on various large, medium and small paper bags and display them in JINS PARK. TsuMi TsuMi picnic [Date and time] May 11, 2025 (Sunday) 13:00-16:00 [Content] Let’s make building blocks using various pieces of wood that were scrapped at a woodworking shop. Let’s pile them up as we like, or let’s create various shapes together based on instructions. The event was held with more building blocks and more power than last year. [Cooperation] Shimizu Seikan Co., Ltd. Strange creatures corner made with kneaded erasers [Date and time] May 11, 2025 (Sunday) 13:00-16:00 [Contents] Let’s make your favorite creatures using kneaded erasers. [Cooperation] Terra Ayunatsu *All events are free of charge and no reservations are required. “JINS PARK” Overview
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/27384/312/27384-312-24012f5dc1f642cd48692e5a456395bf-2000×1300.jpg JINS PARK is a facility located in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, where JINS was founded, and aims to become a hub for the local community. The facility has stores for the eyewear brand “JINS” and the restaurant business “Everypan”, a bakery cafe. This store format aims for JINS to coexist with the local community, by creating a place for new interaction with the local community by providing an outdoor plaza that anyone can use freely, as well as spacious spaces within the facility such as a grand staircase and rooftop terrace. [Opening date] April 29, 2021 (Thursday/Holiday) [Location] 1-21-9
Kawahara-cho, Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture [Store] JINS Maebashi store (business hours 10:00-19:00) / Everypan Maebashi store (business hours weekdays 10:00-18:00 / Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 9:00-18:00) [Number of parking spaces] 50 spaces Artist: Kenichi Obana
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/27384/312/27384-312-03bde9f6f89785095fedd1e90d94c290-437×516.png Born in 1981 in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture. Based in Akita Prefecture. He creates drawings and sculptures based on people’s activities, folklore, local landscapes, and history. I am exploring works that allow us to experience the story while moving back and forth between fiction and reality. Major exhibitions in recent years include “Tama River Geontography” (2024, Chofu City), “International Art Festival Aichi 2022” (2022, Tokoname City), and “Michinooku Art Festival Yamagata Biennale” Bunshokan (2021) 2021, Yamagata City), “Setouchi Triennale 2022” (2022, Tadotsu Town), “VOCA2021” Ueno Royal Museum (2021, Tokyo), “Ecosystem of Expression” Arts Maebashi (2019, Maebashi), etc. In addition to producing works, he also handles commission work and workshops such as store interior design for JINS Maebashi Kojimada store. His awards include the Jomo Arts and Culture Award (2022), the VOCA Award (2021), the Tokyo Midtown Award Excellence Award (2015), and the LUMIN meets ART AWARD Second Grand Prix (2014). JINS Regional Coexistence Business Department Based on JINS’s vision “Magnify Life – Unseen Light,” it was newly established in September 2021 as part of our efforts to create a sustainable society and business, with the aim of expanding and enriching people’s lives. We create opportunities for regional interaction through workshops and events, with the aim of facing regional issues as a private company and growing together. We are an organization that carves a path to growth together with the local community, including the Community Coexistence Business Group, Food and Beverage Business Group, Event Management Group, Norma Business Group, and JINS GO Business Group, and works to create communities starting from JINS stores nationwide. [Managed by the food and beverage business group] ・Bakery cafe “Everypan”: https://everypan.jp/ ・ONCA COFFEE:
https://www.onca-coffee.com/ JINS “Miruiku” As a brand that has been involved in eyewear, in 2012 we started “Miru-Iku,” an activity to cultivate the eyes of children who will create the future, with the aim of realizing a “myopia-free society.” We hold classes to teach correct knowledge about light and eyes and the importance of eye protection, hold art exhibitions and art workshops at JINS stores, and as part of the “More Outdoor Play Project,” which supports “playing outdoors,” which is recommended to prevent the progression of myopia, we have created a vehicle called “JINS See Play Car” and donated it to NPOs.