Help Save Totoro’s Birthplace!

2 09 2008
The inspirational Sayama Forest in Tokyo needs your help.
The inspirational Sayama Forest in Tokyo needs your help.

If you haven’t heard about the amazing Totoro Forest Project fund-raising exhibition/auction, which will be held Sept. 6th at Pixar, then you are missing out on some fabulous artwork being sold for a great cause. Spearheaded by Pixar art director Dice Tsutsumi, the event features artwork from some the top animators and illustrators working today. The proceeds will go to helping preserve the Sayama Forest, an 8750-acres urban forest in Tokyo. The woods inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece My Neighbor Totoro and the Totoro no Furusato Fund has been the Oscar-winner’s most cherished charity for years.

Read this brief interview with the organizers of the benefit and check out some of the artwork, then head over to the Totoro Forest Project website to find out how you can help. Read the rest of this entry »