8 November 2013
Tonight (Friday 8 November 2013) at 10:45pm on Radio 3, former Daiwa Scholar, Chris Harding’s talk on therapy versus prayer will be aired on BBC Radio 3 at 10:45 pm. Chris initially gave this talk on 26 October at the Free Thinking Festival 2013 at the Sage, Gateshead.
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Rosa van Hensbergen, one of the 2012 Daiwa Scholars, is currently involved in a number of mixed-media dance performances taking place in Tokyo over the next two months (22 November, 30 November, 9 and 10 December). These are part of an ongoing collaborative project, INPUT PLACE, with ShaLeigh Comerford (American choreographer and director of ShaLeigh Dance Works) and Joe Snape (British electronic composer and researcher). All performances require advance reservation, and as seating is very limited, if you would like to come please book now to avoid disappointment. There is more information on events, times, and bookings below, and there will be regular project updates at the website inputplace.com, due to go live by 10 November 2013.
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The Noh Training Project UK is delighted to announce that it has established a brand new Noh Group in association with Royal Holloway (University of London) to give people interested in Noh the opportunity to practise in the UK’s only dedicated Noh theatre, and to meet like-minded people.
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The exhibition NATURAL FLUX is a unique exploration of nature as contemporary art, through the medium of bonsai and will be showing at Brick Lane Gallery Annexe (93-95 Sclater Street) 6th-11th November. NATURAL FLUX was initiated by professional bonsai specialist Peter Warren and is the continuation of an idea which dates back over 150 years in Japanese
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Following the resounding success of last year’s event, the Experience Japan Exhibition is back for a third year. The event will introduce the various exciting opportunities to study and work in Japan. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation will once again have a booth at this year’s Experience Japan, so please drop by to enquire about our Daiwa Scholarships, grants and events.
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A tea ceremony demonstration and gallery talk will be held at the Embassy of Japan in London on Wednesday, 6 November at 3 p.m. The tea ceremony and gallery talk are being held to coincide with the Embassy of Japan’s current exhibition, Insight into Beauty: Chawan – Teabowls inspired by Japan, made in the UK.
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There was an article in yesterday evening’s Nikkei (Japanese equivalent of the FT), 捨てられた世代 (‘The Jilted Generation’) written by Noritoshi Furuichi, one of the speakers in the seminar held at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation on 17 October entitled, Youth Entrepreneurship in Japan and the UK: New hope for ‘desperate societies’? Please read on for a translated version of the piece.
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Dogwoof is releasing the engaging and moving documentary, Cutie and the Boxer about the artist couple Ushio and Noriko Shinohara this Friday (1st November). There will be a nationwide screening of the film across the Picturehouse network on Tuesday, 5 November. Cutie and the Boxer A film by Zachary Heinzerling UK theatrical release: 1 Nov, 2013 Running time:
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The artist talk on 15 October, connected to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s current exhibition Acting Out of Nothingness: from the APT Collection included the Director of the APT Institute, Justin R. Merino, who will describe the work of his organisation and exhibiting artist Kanako Sasaki, who introduced her photography and the thoughts and processes that inform her work. London-based Japanese photographer Tomoko Yoneda whose work addresses similar themes led a discussion on journalism, history and contemporary photography.
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I attended the opening of the much-heralded Shunga exhibition at the British Museum last night. It didn’t disappoint – there is a huge amount to see, and I didn’t make it into the last room at all before the exhibition closed, so I’ll have to go back. It was interesting to see people’s reactions to
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