ポポエペレ はじめの創造
MEMBER

Co-Founder / Curator / Coordinator
伴優香子 Yukako Ban
共同代表・キュレーター・コーディネーター
南アフリカヨハネスブルグ在住。レソトから近い南アフリカの東ケープ州出身のパートナーがいる。2019年に南アフリカに移住。現在Wits大学の博士過程に在籍しつつ、IndabaConnect AfricaのDirector、株式会社チャリツモのコンテンツディレクターなど、さまざまな団体で活動中。
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She relocated to South Africa in 2019.
Currently a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), she is also Director of Indaba Connect Africa and Content Director at Charitsumo Co., Ltd., engaging in multiple cross-cultural and creative initiatives across organizations. Her partner is from the Eastern Cape, a province geographically close to Lesotho.

Public Relations / Coordinator
渡邊莉瑚 Riko Watanabe
千葉大学卒業。大学時代から海外に足を運び、レソトに1年間滞在。現地の小さな村で教育プロジェクトに携わる。学生時代から人や文化、暮らしに関心を持ち、現在は秘境専門の旅行会社に勤務。月に一度海外を訪れながら、土地に根ざした人々の暮らしに触れ続けている。
Graduated from Chiba University. From her student years, she traveled extensively abroad and spent one year in Lesotho, where she worked on an educational project in a small village. With a longstanding interest in people, culture, and everyday life, she currently works for a travel company specializing in cross-border experiences. Visiting other countries monthly, she continues to engage deeply with locally rooted ways of living.

Co-Founder / Curator/ Artist
スギサキハルナ Haruna Sugisaki
共同代表 アーティスト
2017年東京造形大学絵画科卒業。大学在学中、"天然顔料"という素材に魅了され独自の技法で顔料づくりと作品制作を行う。卒業
後はフィールドを海や山に移し、人間の営みと自然の生命力の交わる接点に着目し絵画や陶芸、インスタレーションなど様々な表
現方法で自然とのコンタクトを試みる。
Graduated in 2017 from Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Painting. During her university years, she became deeply fascinated by natural pigments and began developing her own techniques for pigment-making and art production. After graduation, she shifted her field of practice to the sea and the mountains, focusing on the intersection between human activity and the vitality of nature. Through painting, ceramics, installation, and other forms of expression, she continues to explore contact with the natural world.