APU Lasting Light 2.4

Lasting Lightと名付けられたイベントサークルは2004年に初めてAPUで開催され2011年まで続いていましたが、それ以降は中断していました。しかし、2015年はメンバーが再開し後輩とともに、臼杵市民から無償で提供された竹を使用し、準備に1ヶ月半をかけて開催し、大成功を収めました。このイベントを開催しようと思った理由について、APUの学生にAPUの中心で行われる光のイベントの美しさを知ってもらい、地域の人々と国内学生、国際学生が共に参加することでこのイベントをグローバルなものにしたかったです。

Lasting Light is an event circle in Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) that was started in 2004 by group of students with the intention of recreating a bamboo light festival widely celebrated in Usuki city. The event took place around the fountain of APU and was annually held before it saw its discontinuation after 2011. In 2015, the group was ressurected with new younger members and locals from Usuki co-operating to provide bamboos for free. The main motivation behind this event was for the students of APU to be able to experience the beautiful and colorful festival of lights in the heart of APU itself and to make this festival a global one by bringing locals and international people together. In 2015, it took one and a half month of preparation to set up 1,500 candle-lit bamboos and objets d'art around the fountain and twin towers (of APU).