TAB needs your help in 2010!
Between Jan. 22 and Mar. 21 2010 we raised ¥814,385. We want to thank all who donated and our supporters on Twitter and the web.
The money raised will power our operations in 2010. We'll also announce new ways to support TAB in a few months.
The campaign is over but you can still donate if you want.
Thank you again for your support.
-TAB Team
Five years ago, three art-loving friends started a non-profit organization to promote the Tokyo art and culture in Japan and abroad. Thus Tokyo Art Beat was born!
Today, TAB is the biggest online resource for Japanese art information with an archive of 33,000 events, 1100 TABlog reviews & interviews, read by 150,000 monthly visitors from 138 countries!
As the art world struggles against the impact of the global recession, TAB needs your help more than ever. Over 30% of our expenses are supported by grants and donations like yours. These funds support the huge editing, translation & maintenance tasks required to run TAB, as well as help pay for servers and enhancements to the website.
Make your donation today!
from TAB Team (Jan.22)
» about Gadago NPO
Your donations will go to:
- 6 months of editing, translating and reviewing of event data (¥520,000).
- 1 year of transportation costs for our 3 interns (¥200,000)
- 6 months of rent & utility bills (¥660,000)
- 1 year of webhosting (¥120,000)
Our plan for 2010:
- Publish 5,000 new events, and print 100,000 art maps 6 times. All for free!
- New features that make it easier to share with friends.
- New & improved mobile site.
- Launch of TAB's iPhone app.
- Increase our reach to 20% more art lovers.
Messages From Other Supporters:
"This cause hits close to home for me, because I know how much work these people put into keeping TAB running [...] These people live and breathe the Tokyo art scene and they want nothing more than to make it easier for you to find your way in." — Art Space Tokyo Blog
"TAB is an invaluable part of Tokyo's art community. Without it, the art scene would be lost. Help to save this vital creative resource!!" — Tokyo Made
"The site is truly an essential resource for anyone — especially us non-Japanese — who wants (or needs) to navigate this city’s growing number of art and design-related events." — Snow Mag
Messages From Donors:
Yohei Morino —「応援してます、よ。」
Shingo Sakai —「日本にアートを!」
Ako Kogure —「わたしこそTABに支えられてますから。」
並木 力 —「これからも頑張ってください!」
Noriyuki Oka —「次世代のクリエイションに少しでも貢献できればと思い」
Seiko Toyoshima —「アートと出合う機会を創造しているTABに感謝。がんばってください。」
Makoto Yamauchi —「より多くの人がアートを楽しめる、その未来のために。」
Kojima Mika —「May the light be with you!」
Masaru Yokoi —「生活にアートを! 応援してます。」
Akiko Shinozuka —「アートのことは勉強しはじめたばかりですが、いつもとってもお世話になっています!」
Rie Okuma —「TABの継続を切に願います。頑張ってください。」
Yumeta Ichikawa —「アート・インフラストラクチャーのさらなる充実を!」
Yuri Takezawa —「藤高さんとのご縁と、TABに心よりの感謝を込めて。応援しています!」
Bento Graphics —「Ganbatte - Tokyo needs TAB!」
Yoshihiro Ueda —「いつも利用させていただいています。」
Yamaguchi Katsura —「応援しています!ガンバレ!!」
Akio Okamoto —「応援してます!」
Kazunori Okawa —「毎日利用させて頂いてます。微力ながら応援します。」
Koji Tetsui —「素晴らしいサイトです!微力ながらお手伝いさせてください。」
Kon Tetsuya —「これだけ素晴らしいサイトですので、ぜひ広く認知され、存続できるシステムを構築して行って下さい ^-^ I'm your fan!!」
Taichi Izumi —「募金TOPの文章は正直響かなかったけど、藤高さんの記事を見て、寄付しようと思いました。」
Yoshifumi Tomabechi —「いつも利用させていただいています!なくてはならない尊い活動を支持します」
Sakata Kazumichi —「アートでより日本が元気になりますように。」
Toshiharu Nakaya —「未来のために」
Ayumi Kizuka —「東京から遠く離れていますが応援しています!」
Mayu Kitamura —「東京ライフの情報源はTABなのです。がんばって!」
Richard Byers —「Whenever I'm in Tokyo the first thing I do is check out TAB for things to see! Thank You and Good luck for the future!」
Kouichi Aoki —「いつも頼りにシテマス!」
Luis Mendo (Good Inc.) —「In my Tokyo stay I would have been nowhere near the good stuff without the TAB map in my pocket. Thanks for the good work.」
Mitsuhiro Nakatsu —「これからも良質なARTを紹介してください」
Chu Jehan —「Para/Site Art Space in Hong Kong supports TAB!」
Yoko Nakamuta —「TABの情報源が無くなったら、私が出会うアートの数も半減してしまう!がんばって下さい!」
Satoshi Takata —「負けるな、アート。」
Masatoshi Iwasaki —「展覧会巡りに便利に使わせていただいています。頑張ってください!」
Noriyo Asano —「Stay On」
Milan Claudio —「Great site--couldn't live without it!」
Alexis Le-Quoc —「Whenever I come to Tokyo I use TAB.」
Tateru Ishizuka —「TABがなければ出会えなかった作品が数え切れないほどあります。TABがこれからもずっとずっと続きますように!」
Yuki Kotera —「このサイトのおかげで沢山の素晴らしいイベントに出会えました。ありがとう!」
Yurika Sugie —「アートが好きだ!東京が好きだ!両方楽しむのに必要なのはTAB!」
Goal: ¥1,500,000 (1.22~3.21)
Make your donation now
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DONOR'S LIST

Loftwork kindly donated ¥162,385 as part of their 10th year anniversary Charity Auction.
All donors listed below have granted permission to have their name published.
Koike Daisuke, Takao Inamori, Yohei Morino, Shingo Sakai, Mari Iwaki, Ako Kogure, Ito Fujitaka, Riki Namiki, Naomi Yamamoto, Nomuko Tominaga, Sayaka Furuichi, Emiko Akasaka, Tomoko Okamoto, Shingo Hagiwaara, Himiko Koseki, Daisuke Tamura, Masaaki Hirakata, Nonaca, Karl Dubost, Emi Takahashi, Junkyo Hamada, Yutaka Murakoshi, Satoko Endoh, Rena Sofue, Aiko Asakawa, Noriko Shimizu, Rajat Jain, Yasuyo Ota, Momoko Nagaiwa, Yuka Saito, Tomokazu Hattanda, Noriyuki Oka, Seiko Toyoshima, Makoto Yamauchi, Masaru Yokoi, Tanigami Hirofumi, Kojima Mika, Saemi Shimizu, Akiko Shinozuka, Rie Okuma, Ryohei Noda, Yumeta Ichikawa, Miho Ishii, Yuri Takezawa, Tomoko Nihommatsu, Ito Takuro, Galerie Juillet, Mio Yachita, Zuishoji Art Projects, Heima Fujimoto, Saki Takanami, Hirano, Atsushi Muro, Kuretake, Yoshihiro Kanematsu, Hirotaka Wada, Yoshihiro Ueda, Yamaguchi Katsura, Akio Okamoto, Haruna Kashiwazaki, Kazunori Okawa, Katsumi Muramatsu, Koji Tetsui, Yasunori Kidani, Chris Palmieri, Kon Tetsuya, Kaori Nobe, Taichi Izumi, Ikuma Maeda, Tomohiko Koyama, Yuki Fukatsu, Ayumi Kizuka, Toshiharu Nakaya, Yukito Inoue, Saori Ono, Noriko Nozaki, Nobumitsu Hayashi, Sakata Kazumichi, Fumiya Otonashi, Yoshifumi Tomabechi, Michele Ouellet, Mayu Kitamura, Richard Byers, Shibori Girl Studios, Luis Mendo (Good Inc.), Chu Jehan (Para/Site, HK), Kouichi Aoki, Hiroshi Kawashima, Mitsuhiro Nakatsu, Akihiro Kawamura, Hisaya Murata, Yoko Nakamuta, Kouichi Shibuya, Keita Eto, Masayuki Nishimaru, Ayano Sugiuchi, Satoshi Takata, Noriyo Asano, Syunichi Suge, Masatoshi Iwasaki, Milan Claudio, Alexis Le-Quoc, Kohei Fukuzawa, Tateru Ishizuka, Yuki Kotera, Tasuku Segawa, Yurika Sugie, Fukuoka Yuri, Yukiko Suzumi, Yukiko Kato, Yuichi Hirako, Atsushi Ito, Junya Furukawa, Masako Hiroshima, Milen Milenovich, Kaori Akiyama, Japan Exposures, Shimada Shigeru Gallery, Ariko Oka, Ryu Taguchi, Fuminao Suenaga, Kaoru Naito, Jason Morse, Rei Kagami, Asaka Barsley, Tomoko Tanaka, Masaru Nemoto, Tomokazu Kosuga, Miho Nakamura, Daisuke Nakazawa, Mai Shirai, Miho Kaneda, Baptiste Bassot, Tadafusa Honda, Akinori Ishida, Ashley Rawlings, Hideo Asakura, Manabu Inose, Watanabe Ayako, Rebecca Waters Boldsen Lund, Tomoki Sakuta, Olivier Thereaux, Nishiwaki Jun, Sato Risei, Craig Mod, Josh McKible, Michio Yamamoto, Ibara Wataru, Toshio Iwata, Masuda Keiichi, Kaleb White, Osamu Yabe, James Bowskill, Nobuyuki Hayashi, Kuniomi Nomiya, Nariwai Gallery, Tatsuya Mukaiyama, Hajime Nakagawa, Tomoko Miyake, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Taihei Shii, Masaru Iwano, Emi Abe, Makoto Kaga, Masayuki Higa