| NPO Cosmo Yume Butai | Agamachi, Urawa city, Japan |
Cosmo Yume Butai is going to be held with a focus on Satoyama Art Exhibit (for about six months) as usual. For the past seven years, they have revitalized a depopulated community through such programs as the Biotope Formation project and exchange program between urban and rural areas. This year, Cosmo Yume Butai received a local governmental grant to develop and make their community attractive; therefore it enables them to enrich their activities such as a promotion of organic agriculture, a walking activity, "Cosmo Yumebutai Juku" which is a summer camp for children to experience country life, and so on.
These programs have recently become familiar to local people. In this summer, they also started a volunteer program to accept children from the earthquake stricken area in Tohoku.
| Date | Program | Venue／Place |
|---|---|---|
| 3-5 May 2011 | Biotope Formation project | Rice-field in Toyomi（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
| 4 May 2011 | Forum about the city and rural area Ⅰ "About disaster prevention" | Rice-field in Toyomi（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
| 14 Jul. 2011 | Info Session "To build an attractive rural area" | Urawa "ZAN"（Urawa city, Saitama） |
| 16-18 Jul. 2011 | Producing the Art exhibition | Rice-field in Toyomi（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
| 16 Jul. 2011 | Lecture "Food, mind and body" Lecturer: Ms. Chika Ito | Wasaikan（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
| 2-20 Aug. 2011 | Cosmo Yume Butai Juku "Let's refresh in the nature" | Toyomi, Wasaikan（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
| 17-19 Sep. 2011 | Producing Art works | Venue of the Art Exhibition, Ishi-Yume Studio（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
| 18 Sep. 2011 | Forum about the city and rural area Ⅱ "What is richness" | Wasaikan（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
| 15 Oct. 2011 | The 3rd Tanbo Yume Butai Festival | Venue of the Art Exhibition（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
| 15 Oct.-6 Nov. 2011 | The 8th Satoyama Art Exhibition | Venue of the Art Exhibition（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
| 16 Oct. 2011 | Forum about the city and rural area Ⅲ "The Ideal" | Wasaikan（Toyomi, Agamachi） |
Sculptor Mr. Kentaro Sato has spent over ten years commuting to Toyomi from Hasuda, working with allies from the Fukurou association of his collectors and supporters to recondition local storage units, huts and sheds as art museums, arbors and visitor lodgings. Naming their project Cosmo Yume Butai, Mr. Sato himself moved back home to launch an art movement with the aim of revitalizing a depopulated community. For the past seven years they have held symposia, music festivals and the Satoyama Art Exhibit. Last year brought positive efforts in such forms as the Tanbo Festival and Biotope Formation project. On 30 April 2010 Cosmo Yume Butai gained certification as a non-profit organization. There are 43 members for now.
