The new series of interviews conducted by Kitagawa Fram, General Director of ETAT pay respects to local people who engage with rice production in this region known for heavy snowfall. They treasure wisdom and traditions nurtured and built by their ancestors who related themselves to nature and navigated through their lives in this heavy snowfall community. We are determined to learn real life in a snow country based upon farming.

While the eighth iteration of ETAT has been postponed to summer 2022, new artworks for the festival including the reopening of MonET and Matsudai Nohbutai as well as Echigo-Tsumari Kamigo Clove Theatre and Katakuri House have been created and opened to the public from summer 2021. This is a new series of interviews conducted by Kitagawa Fram, General Director of ETAT with participating artists in the upcoming festival. New footage of interviews will be added in due course.

Two of the ETAT hub facilities, MonET and Matsudai Nohbutai, re-opened on 22 July. The General Director of ETAT shares his thoughts as he opens these two facilities to the public.

The news of Christian Boltanski’s death was announced to the world on 14 July 2021. He was one of the artists who have long and deeply engaged with Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. In memory of Christian Boltanski, we shall look back the journey that he took with Echigo-Tsumari.

On 24 April, we held a kickoff meeting of FC Echigo-Tsumari, a female football team engaging with farming which was born from ETAT. It has been five years since it was launched and the team won the championship on Niigata League in 2020. The team welcomed new Senior Director, GM & Director and six new players this spring. As we launch the new chapter of the club, we spoke with Sakaguchi Senior Director, Motoi GM & Director and two players, Ishiwatari and Mori.