Paralym Art World Cup 2020 Launches To Promote Artists With Disabilities

Paralym Art have several aims, their biggest being the goal to help disabled artists, by giving them a way to survive without having to have a dependence on social security programs, and to help them form ties with companies that will help back these amazing artists.

• They work with artists with disabilities using their art and designs and so on
• They pay royalties of 50% to all of their artists that are registered with them and whose work they use
• Anyone can join no matter which disability they have
• From April 2018 to March 2019 they saw the remuneration to artists total 11,869,393 Yen

It’s not something many people think about, but people with disabilities are always helped as much as they should be.

About 7% of the Japanese population has a disability, which means 4.36 mil with physical disabilities, 1.08 mil with intellectual disabilities, 3.92 mil with mental disabilities. In regards to People under 65 with disabilities there is about 4.15 mil (physical: 1.08 mil, intellectual: 790,000, mental: 2.28 mil)

It’s not uncommon to find that some of these people with disabilities work in public / private companies, with them numbering about 530,000 people. (Of disabled people working, about 70% are physically disabled)

A white paper on disabled people was released in 2019 by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, with the poverty rate for people with disabilities being at 56% where the general population sit at about 16%. This leads to number of users of disability welfare services being about 1.12 mil. This means that all the work that Paralym Art do, is incredibly beneficial for society, and more needs to be done for these people at risk!
 

The Paralym Art World Cup started in 2018 with the aim to show off and display a variety of different pieces of artwork from artists with disabilities. The theme was festival and saw a large amount of artwork entered including pieces from different countries! This success set the wheels in motion to make this event an annual occurrence, an event to help celebrate artists all around the world! Over the past two years, over 2000 pieces were entered with nearly half of the entries coming from outside of Japan! Entrants were invited to the awards ceremony and saw people from all over the world come, such as Cameroonians, Russians, and Philippinos.
 

The EcoBag itself is a sizable and stylish bag that is made of canvas, making it incredibly durable! What’s more Paralym Art have commissioned 12 designs meaning you can pick from 12 amazing different pieces of work! It feels a lot larger than normal bags and what’s more, some of the proceeds go towards the artist that designed the bag. Obviously, some of the money from the sale has to go towards production costs and so on, but a large majority of the money raised is received by the artist, helping them be self-sufficient which is one of the big goals of Paralym Art!

Bag Information:
Size: Width 41cm x Height 32cm x Depth 18cm
100% Polyester
・Comes with fastener
・Sent in special packaging

The Paralym Art World Cup crowdfunding project is being held on our sister site, Japankuru Funding and can be found here: https://en.japankurufunding.com/projects/paralym-art/
The project has a goal of 1,100,000 Yen or about $10340 and will be running until the end of June! 
The goals of the project are threefold:

・Creating a way for people all over the world to see all the artwork we have collected from Artists all around the world!
・To create a system where people can come together and support the artists work!
・Raising money to create an event to give back to the disabled Artists that create such amazing pieces of art.

It's currently raised 20% of their goal, and is hoping to raise more to help achieve all they wish to do! 
We hope that you can help Paralym Art as they try to acheive their goals!

For those that haven't seen it, this year’s World Cup site can be found here: https://en.paralymartwc.com/ !
This year’s site lets you view all the entries for the event and have now opened up voting for the general public award! With this year’s theme being “Peace”, you can see an assortment of artwork that focuses on making the world a better place! 

What’s more, if you yourself are an artist with disability, you can enter your own work via the site here: https://en.paralymartwc.com/entryform

The process is quite simple, but before you enter please check out the terms and conditions for entering.