Piano in elevator

I don't think I've ever seen piano playing on an elevator before. This was taken in a hotel in Hong Kong. And, no, the elevator was not sideways. I can't figure out how to turn it 90 degrees.

Organ goes on walkabout...

Pictures taken during a video shoot for my new organ music video here in Japan...

Juilliard Group in Japan

Fourteen musicians and one dancer came to help in relief work and church planting June 7-18. They helped us build community through concerts, lessons, masterclasses, and many kinds of events.

I will be giving a couple of lectures in Hong Kong in a week at the University of Hong Kong and at Watermark Church about how arts played a role in the disaster relief and recovery work here in Japan. Below are fliers:

Japanese Flag Prints for Relief

Here are more graphic designs based on the Japanese flag in order to
raise money for the relief and recovery effort in Japan.

"Artists Help Japan" Organization

In the blog entry below entitled "The Folded Sun," I began to introduce how different artists have been using their gifts to raise money for the recovery effort here in Japan. Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi, the Tokyo-born art director of Pixar’s Toy Story 3, is also helping through his organization “Artists Help Japan.” Artists and musicians have donated their time and their artwork raising over $240,000. “What moved me…was the idea that there is a place for artists in the response to a crisis like this one,” says Tsutsumi. “Animators, painters, musicians and other people of talent can come together and make a difference. I started the organization, but so many people have stepped up and taken the effort even further.”

You can learn more about their organization at their website. 

Children's Project in Disaster Area

Mission to the World is heading up a project for children in the disaster area. You can watch five movie clips about the project and how to help fund by going to their website. Churches around the United States will be showing these videos as part of their Vacation Bible School programs this summer, in hopes of raising funds to use music and the arts to bring healing and restoration back to devastated communities with a focus on their children.