2 July 2021
世界で活躍する写真家であり映画監督の蜷川実花氏が、桜や金魚の象徴的な写真から、最近の「写ルンです」シリーズやパラリンピック選手のポートレート等、自身のアート作品について語ります。また、パンデミックの中で写真家としての活動をどのように調整してきたか、社会的距離感についての考え方や世界観についても探ります。司会は、アシュモレアン美術館キュレーター、フリッチュ・レーナ博士が担当。
蜷川実花氏の作品は、2021年7月29日から、アシュモレアン美術館「TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY」展にて展示予定。同氏によるパラリンピック選手のポートレイトは、現在Daiwa Japan House Galleryにて展示中。
28 June 2021
In 2019, supported with a Daiwa Foundation Award, ten primary school children from five Coventry primary schools travelled to Japan. The pupils collaborated with five schools in Japan on Olympic-based projects. Outcomes of the project have been far-reaching, including a Japan Arts Festival in Coventry, an Olympic Torch relay between 60 Coventry schools, a Japanese Peace Garden and further Japan-related education.
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From 2pm on Sunday, 1st August 2021, author and Daiwa Foundation Small Grant recipient Jayne Joso will be introducing her recently published Japan Stories at Herne Hill Books in Herne Hill, London. In Japan Stories – Jayne Joso’s collection of short fiction, each story centres on a particular character to become part of a mosaic of
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Neighbouring is a 4-day on-line workshop from 15 to 18 June 2021 programmed as a part of Glasgow International 2021 that brings together practitioners from Japan and Scotland to give voice to and partake in a shared desire for closeness and intimacy despite physical separation and barriers to engagement.
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We offer our congratulations to the artist and author Edmund de Waal on having been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours on 12 June 2021. Edmund was one of the first recipients of a Daiwa Scholarship, following the establishment of the programme by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in 1991. De Waal is renowned
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From Tuesday 15 June 2021, the Japan House Gallery will reopen to the public, with the current exhibition, Beauty and Power by Mika Ninagawa, on display until Friday 30 July (weekdays only, 10:00-17:00). Visitors to the exhibition are required to book in advance and follow COVID-secure protocols while attending. Full guidance for these COVID measures
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The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (September 2020).
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This Japan Foundation event features a group of UK theatre professionals – who have looked towards Japan for source materials in their respective productions – at an informal roundtable talk. We are delighted that Alex Rutter, a 2015 Daiwa Scholar, will be taking part.
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In Japan Stories – Jayne Joso’s collection of short fiction, each story centres on a particular character to become part of a mosaic of life in contemporary Japan. Meet the sinister museum curator, a son caring for his dementia-struck father, a young woman who returns to haunt her killer, a widow losing her mind who knits
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Text by former Daiwa Scholar, Michael Reddish.
On Saturday, 4th August 2012, Yusuke Suzuki will represent Japan in the 20km Race Walk. We first met sixteen years ago during my homestay with the Suzuki family as part of my Daiwa Scholarship.
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