Local Stories 2024 Workshop “Let’s rap! ~ Looking back on the days of Corona”

Yo Kashiwagi/NPO Theater Department Store

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In 1993, he joined the theater group "NOISE" and worked with the late playwright and theater artist Koharu Kisaragi. In 2003, she established the NPO Theater Department Store and became the representative director.Since then, she has held theater workshops with various people in various places.She is an annual contract facilitator at the Setagaya Public Theater.She also works as an external instructor for drama clubs at high schools and junior high schools in Tokyo.She also teaches at Wako University and Toho Gakuen College of Art.

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When I think about what happened during the coronavirus pandemic, I get a feeling that I can't quite put my finger on.I can't say for sure whether that was bad or what could have been done to improve it.It's not anyone's fault, but the current situation is a result of someone else's choices.If you think like that, you'll end up worrying a lot.Then, I felt like I was somehow useless because I couldn't express my feelings into words.
During the coronavirus pandemic, I was alone in my room and felt a little tired.And I felt like screaming.I didn't do it because I'm an adult.I realize now that I should have shouted at that time.
I think there are many people like me who have feelings that cannot be separated.Please tell me about your inseparable feelings.If you can't express it in words, you can dance.You could try writing it into a letter.I would like you to let me know a lot about what's happening right now.Whether it's sentimental feelings, harsh realities, or vague thoughts, why not shout it out on stage now rather than later?

FUNI/Rapper

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Major debut in 2004 as the unit "KP". He left music in 2010 to start an IT company, but returned to the music world in 2015.He creates music while moving around the world.Inspired by Ryo Isobe's "Report Kawasaki", in 2019 he appeared on the "Kawasaki South Side Rap" episode of NHK's "No Nare".
Appeared in Mainichi Shimbun's online event "Nihon Deikiru".He holds rap workshops for juvenile detention centers, Korean schools, and children with foreign roots.

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I have often heard that the coronavirus pandemic is unnecessary.I think he meant refraining from doing things that don't need to be rushed.My child was born in 2021.Due to the coronavirus pandemic, I was unable to attend the birth, and my partner and I both felt lonely, and I'm sure the newborn child felt the same way.In my mind, I was shouting, ``Is it unnecessary or urgent to attend a birth? Don't be silly!'' However, hospital workers are constantly battling the anxiety of infection and do nothing but care for the patients in front of them. I don't think there was.I look back on those days and wonder who was at fault.It's not anyone's fault, but I think it's poisonous in a world like this where you can't even say what you want to say.Why not turn the poison that has accumulated inside us into art called rap or poetry and release it on stage?