12 September 2019
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
Read on4 September 2019
This year’s eight Daiwa Scholars have departed for Japan, embarking on their 19-month programme of language study, homestay, and work placements. Fresh from a month of Japanese tuition in the UK, the Scholars will hone their language skills at Waseda university in Tokyo over the course of the next year. The Scholarship will allow them to further their studies and specialties, which range from the fine arts to science and humanities, and forge new and enduring links between the UK and Japan.
Read on20 August 2019
“Emily” will be performed at Tara Arts Theatre (Earlsfield, London): 4 to 6 September. For three nights only, professional Noh actors and musicians from Japan will offer a cross-cultural take on one of the most significant events in women’s political history. In 1913, Emily Wilding Davison ran onto the racetrack at the Epsom Derby in support of votes for women. She was struck down by the King’s horse and died four days later. But what happened to the jockey that killed her?
Read on12 August 2019
This multidisciplinary forum at London Southbank University on Wednesday 28 August (10 to 5) aims to share expertise and present state-of-the-art research work in the form of presentations touching on themes such as Vacuum Physics, Building Integrated Renewable Energy, Solar Thermal Vacuum Engineering, Smart Windows, Vacuum Insulation, Building Retrofitting Technologies, Solar Collectors, Solar Heating and Cooling Technologies, Solar Architecture and Building Integration and Intelligent Energy Systems for NZEBs.
Read on2 August 2019
Interview with Daiwa Scholarship alumna Francesca Le Lohé. Her production of THE鍵KEY, a new Anglo-Japanese, site-specifc opera inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki’s novel of the same name will be performed in East Dulwich, London on 3 and 4 August 2019 as part of Tête a Tête: The Opera Festival 2019.
Read on23 July 2019
Free tickets for teenagers!
There will be ten free tickets available for each performance for teenagers and their accompanying parents.
People hoping to get the free tickets should e-mail shimizu.takeshi@gmail.com – first come first served.
3 July 2019
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall is exhibiting at Art Osaka 2019 and Portsmouth Museum this summer. Carl’s portrait painting of D-Day Veteran Jim Glennie (b.1925) is one of twelve portraits commissioned by HRH The Prince of Wales for the Royal Collection, and is currently on display at Portsmouth Museum until 1 September as
Read on13 June 2019
The National Portrait Gallery London is now displaying and selling prints of Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s recent three oil paintings. To celebrate 30 years of the BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery has collaborated with seven past BP exhibitors to create selection of their works as prints, including Carl’s large London
Read on10 June 2019
THE鍵KEY: Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Francesca Le Lohé’s site-specific, dramatic musical work, inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki’s novelThe Key (1956) featured in Powell Tuck Associates’ event on 27 June 2019 as part of the London Festival of Architecture, and made its UK debut as part of the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in August 2019.
THE鍵KEY received its world premiere to great acclaim at Nakacho House, Tokyo in May 2018, supported by The Mutomai Fund and Kickstarter Donators and went on to have a longer run of performances at Hirakushi Denchu House and Atelier, 19 to 26 May 2019, supported by Arts Council Tokyo and the Japan Arts Council.
Read on30 May 2019
In the fourth lecture of the Daiwa Ichiban Lecture Series Eddie Jones, the head coach of the England rugby team, spoke on “Driving for Excellence” at the residence of Britain’s Ambassador to Japan, Paul Madden.
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