Totoro Forest Project charity auction & exhibition
Ninja July 21st, 2008
The Sayama Forest is one of the most remarkable urban forests in Japan, located just outside of Tokyo. This forest is the inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece, My Neighbor Totoro. With Japan’s rapid urban devleopment in the 70s and 80s, the forest has been losing it’s land. In 1990, Miyazaki (宮崎 駿) set up the national trust, Totoro Forest Foundation to preserve this land.
Totoro Forest Project Charity Auction
The benefit auction will be held at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville on September 6, 2008. It’s entire proceeds will go to The Totoro Forest National Fund.
Cocktail party from 5 PM to 9 PM.
Totoro Forest Project Special Exhibition
The special exhibition featuring selected work fromt eh auction will be held at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Musum. There will be two separate shows. The first exhibition will fron from September 20–December 7. The second exhibition will run from November 6–February 20.
Some participating artists include
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