Cococolo x starnet Joint Exhibition "Welfare and Craftsmanship, Place, Words" to be Held. May 30 (Sat) - June 7 (Sun) in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, Admission Free.

Exhibition "Welfare and Craftsmanship, Place, Words" Key Visual [Key Visual Design: Katsunobu Yoshida (Yoshikatsu Seisakusho)] From May 30 (Sat) to June 7 (Sun), 2026, Magazine House Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Shuichi Tetsuo) will hold a joint exhibition with starnet, titled "Welfare and Craftsmanship, Place, Words," to commemorate the 5th anniversary of its web media . An opening talk &交流会 is also planned for May 30 (Sat). We invite everyone to attend. ■ Exhibition and Sale of "Handicrafts" from 9 Nationally Recognized Welfare Facilities This exhibition focuses on the "craftsmanship" sites within disability welfare facilities that the creative magazine on welfare, , has encountered through its interviews. It will revisit the activities and human relationships that have taken place there, and introduce art pieces and products actually created in welfare facilities. Indigo dyeing scene at (Photo: Hajime Kato) List of Participating Facilities Good Job! Center Kashiba / Tanpopo-no-Ie Art Center HANA (Tanpopo-no-Ie Foundation / Nara Prefecture) Craft Studio La Mano (NPO La Mano / Tokyo) Coco Farm & Winery (Coco Farm & Winery Co., Ltd. / Tochigi Prefecture) Shobu Gakuen (Social Welfare Corporation Taiyokai / Kagoshima Prefecture) Sora to Umi (Social Welfare Corporation Jizokai / Chiba Prefecture) Tamutamu-sha Nakayama Kobo (NPO Tamutamu-sha Nakayama Kobo / Miyagi Prefecture) Mujina no Niwa (General Incorporated Association Atelier Michaud / Tokyo) Yamanami Kobo (Social Welfare Corporation Yamanami Kai / Shiga Prefecture) Lanka (NPO Lanka / Kagoshima Prefecture) Examples of Exhibited Works and Products (Image) Sora to Umi (Social Welfare Corporation Jizokai / Chiba Prefecture): Plans to exhibit and sell mainly woodworking pieces, including plates, cutlery, and chairs. Custom orders are also possible. Lanka (NPO Lanka / Kagoshima Prefecture): Will sell bean-to-bar chocolate from their craft chocolate brand "kiitos." Yamanami Kobo (Social Welfare Corporation Yamanami Kai / Shiga Prefecture): Art pieces born from daily creative activities such as sculpting and embroidery will be featured. Shobu Gakuen (Social Welfare Corporation Taiyokai / Kagoshima Prefecture): A rich variety of craft items will be exhibited from their clay workshop, washi paper workshop, and fabric workshop. ■ Joint Project with , a Shop and Gallery Handling Handicrafts in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture This exhibition is a joint project with starnet (Mashiko-machi, Tochigi Prefecture), a shop and gallery with a long history of handling handicrafts. Since the works and products can also be purchased, visitors can not only appreciate them but also connect with the experience of using and cherishing them in their daily lives thereafter. You can directly view various art pieces and products, including woodworking, pottery, embroidery, dyeing, as well as daily goods and food items. Venue: starnet ZONE (Photo courtesy: Pilot's) ■ Exhibition Message (From the Editors of Cococolo) Since its inception as a "creative magazine exploring welfare," has sought out, reported on, and published online articles about sites, knowledge, people related to social welfare, and various matters concerning human happiness (= welfare). Over five years, it has published more than 1,000 articles and met various readers. "Welfare," often conceived within institutional frameworks—such as care for the elderly, support for people with disabilities, assistance for people in poverty, or young children—contains important aspects that concern everyone, not just those directly targeted. In this exhibition, has focused on "craftsmanship" in disability welfare, specifically from among the many topics it has covered. The environments in which people with disabilities create are diverse; creative activities are conducted as work, leisure, or part of care. And works and products are born from a "place" that includes not only the creator's emotions, interests, and artistic inclinations but also relationships with staff and members, physical conditions, surrounding nature, living spaces, and daily habits. As we unravel each of these backgrounds, we see rich individual personalities, feel connections, link to distant times and places, and encounter unexpected stories. Sincere, serious, humorous, charming, beautiful, refined, rustic, lighthearted, profound... What impressions will visitors to the venue take away? Reflecting on individual differences, understanding their backgrounds, and re-framing "welfare" as something personal might free "us" from the stifling pressure of "having to be just like everyone else," extreme efficiency, meritocracy, and self-responsibility.