4 April 2013
The Japan national cricket team will play a match against the MCC at Lord’s Ground on Sunday 28 April. There will be no charge to attend the match but you must have a (free) ticket. How to get tickets: apply direct for free tickets to the MCC. Ticket Office (stating your name, address and the number of
Read on27 March 2013
National Theatre Wales (NTW) prepares for its international debut, The Opportunity of Efficiency, a co-production with the New National Theatre, Tokyo (NTT).
Read on26 March 2013
The Wellcome Collection’s spring exhibition brings together more than 300 works for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art in the UK. The 46 artists represented in the show are residents and day attendees at social welfare institutions across Honshu, Japan’s largest island.
Read on21 March 2013
The elegant Georgian rooms that make up the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery have been transformed by Berlin-based Japanese artist, Hiraku Suzuki. Mystical swirls of hieroglyphic text, shimmering silver silhouettes and tomb-shaped graphite rubbings create an unworldly, primeval atmosphere for the new exhibition, Excavated Reverberations. The symbols that are a reoccurring motif in these
Read on20 March 2013
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to be hosting the first season of WEA courses about Japanese Literature.
Read on12 March 2013
Japanese folk music group Abeya will be visiting the UK in March, supported by a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant, awarded in the September 2012 round. They will play two concerts, one at Durham University as part of the University’s Musicon Festival of East Asian Music on Wednesday 13 March at 7:30pm at the University Music
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Exhibition at The Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts from 12 March to 20 April 2013 Washi: The Art of Japanese Paper The Gallery at Nowich University of the Arts will be showing two collections of international importance: the Parkes Collection (1869-70) from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the 21st century washi lent
Read on8 March 2013
The choreographer and dancer, Sioned Huws, has been collaborating with artists from Aomori and Tokyo, including dancers, musicians, singers and visual/performance artists; and has held a variety of performances in Japan and the UK as part of the Aomori Project: Of Landscapes Remembered, which the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation was happy to support with a Daiwa Foundation Award. She
Read on26 February 2013
Lyrical Abstraction by former Daiwa Foundation grant recipients Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri. Exhibition: 26th February to 12 March 2013 at Space TRY 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Tuesday – Saturday; Closed Sunday and Monday. ADMISSION FREE Ukishima Sculpture Studio
Read on25 February 2013
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation was delighted to support Dr Nigel Sherriff, Principal Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, with a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant in September 2011, in order to assist with his collaborative research with Japanese academics at Nagoya City University and NGO practitioners in the field of HIV prevention and risk-reduction. An account of his project, kindly sent to us by Dr Sherriff, follows below.
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