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27 November 2020

【満員御礼】松本幸四郎氏による講演会「2020年に考える歌舞伎の伝統と革新」ご案内

日時:2020年12月10日(木)日本時間22:00-23:20
歌舞伎は、演劇、舞、音楽、衣装が融合して繰り出されてきた日本が世界に誇る伝統芸能である。江戸時代(1603−1868)初期に出雲大社の巫女である出雲阿国が舞った踊りが歌舞伎の原点と言われている。しかし、1629年に女歌舞伎が禁止され、現在のような男性だけで演じる形態へと移行。現在、歌舞伎は日本国内のみならず世界各国で愛される舞台であり、2008年にはユネスコ無形文化遺産に登録された。歌舞伎は伝統芸能であると同時に前衛的でもあり、常々時代の流れに沿って進化を遂げている。歌舞伎舞台は独創的で、その時代の流行と伝統とうまく融合させることで、多くの観客の心を引き付けてきた。今回の講演会では、歌舞伎役者の松本幸四郎さんに歌舞伎役者の視点から見た「伝統と革新」について、「英国と歌舞伎のご縁」についてお話しいただく。また、歌舞伎がいかに昨今の新型コロナへ対応しているか、ならびに今後の歌舞伎の発展についての意見も伺う。

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25 September 2020

Kotatsu Festival: 10th anniversary celebration on 24 & 25 October 2020 - held online

On October 24th and 25th, viewers will be able to participate in the full line-up of screenings and events, all of which will be free to access via YouTube and various Zoom sessions. In total,  37 films, including 28 works from students studying at 5 different Japanese universities will be screened, and 9 works from 5 award-winning animators, including Oscar nominated Koji Yamamura and Shin Hosokawa. These works will be introduced by the creators themselves as the festival aims to continue in its mission to connect animators with audiences.

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9 September 2020

Art Action UK event on 12 September 2020 - How We Value Art: Responses During the Covid-19 Crisis

Art Action UK is hosting an interactive online panel discussion on Saturday, 12 September (13:00 to 14:00 British Summertime). The discussion will focus on artists’ experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic – as lived in Japan, the UK, France and Germany – with time for the audience to ask questions and share their experiences. Through this event, Art Action UK will seek to discover how countries can demonstrate the value arts and culture by actively supporting those who contribute to their economy and wellbeing.

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22 January 2020

Wolverhampton Literature Festival: Kazuo Ishiguro, Perspectives from Japan

This event invites critics from Japan to give their culturally specific perspective on one of the finest and most loved writers of or time: Kazuo Ishiguro.  Which Japanese literature, cinema and the culture have had a formative impact on Ishiguro’s authorship?  How Japanese is Ishiguro anyway? Whilst Motoko Sugano will show war paintings that informed Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World, other

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12 September 2019

Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival; 4 - 6 October and 19 – 20 October

Maddie Baker, History and Japanese student at the University of Exeter, gives as a whistle-stop tour into the Kotatsu Festival. The festival is nearing its 10-year anniversary and, this year, has selected 8 of the most entertaining, action-packed and thought-provoking animation films to screen to audiences. Alongside the films, on-lookers can enjoy the Japanese marketplace

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