The annual Labor Festa OSAKA took place on December 14 in the south wing of L-Osaka (Osaka Prefecture Labor Center). This arena of cultural expressions attracted 140 participants with a cinema "Floating Crab Cannery" and rakugo talks as well as "three-minute video clips" featuring labor-related or other social issues. Among those three-minute video clips, 14 were entries by residents of the Kansai district, including excellent entries expressing an essence of labor and life from applicants who joined the short video screening for the first time this year such as "Portraits of the Family 2008" on life of a couple and their child and "My Struggle Back to the Classroom" summarizing the participant's four-year long struggle against dismissal as punishment. Fifty-eight responses were turned in for the questionnaire, many of which gave free comments such as "It has made me feel confident that even I could make a three-minute video clip as good as any of those I saw at the Kansai festa" (Wow!) and "Next year, I would like to attend the video production seminar." The Labor Festa was amusing and inspiring while helping us to develop our thoughts. (Osahito KOYAMA)
楽しく勇気づけられた「レイバーフェスタOSAKA」
恒例の「レイバーフェスタOSAKA」が12月14日「エルおおさか南館」で開かれ、映画「蟹工船」や「落語」それに「3分ビデオ」など、労働と社会をテーマにした文化表現の場に140人が集まった。関西勢の制作による3分ビデオは14本が集まった。なかでも、親子3人の生活を題材にした「家族の肖像2008」や、4年にわたる自分の免職処分反対闘争をまとめた「私が教室に戻るまで」は、いずれも初作品ながら、人生と労働を凝縮して表現した佳品だった。集まったアンケートは58通、書き込みも多く「関西の3分ビデオくらいなら（！）自分にも作れそうだ」「来年はビデオ制作講座を受けたい」という声もあり、楽しく、考えさせられ、勇気づけられるレイバーフェスタであった。（小山帥人）
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