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It is an honour to have participated these days in the meeting organised by Eu Japan fest in Tokyo to present some of the most interesting Japanese artists to all the European capitals of culture.
Once again this year, Eu japan fest, like every year, in occasion of the General Committee meeting is organising a meeting in Tokyo to compare all the European capitals of culture in order to strengthen the network of cities, but also to present the projects of the European capitals of culture to Japanese artists.
With the support of EuJapan fest, three photo exhibitions linking two European cities and Japan are running until 29 February: Tartu, European Capital of Culture 2024; Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016; and Matsudo, Japan.
As part of the 'Perspectives of Japan: Art Books' section of the Kaunas 2022 cultural programme, the photographic exhibition of Japanese artist Mari Katayama, realised with the support of Eu Japan fest, was presented a few days ago.
Through the online platform Meet Up Ecoc! initiated by EuJapan Fest, European cultural capitals can get to know the profiles and contacts of numerous qualified Japanese artists available for their cultural grogrammes. Let's get to know them too.
After the success of the 2022 edition, the Japanese Nami Airando festival is back again this year.
The "Japan Days in Kaunas WA" are coming to an end and were the occasion for the visit of the Eu Japan Fest delegation led by Chairman Nobuyuki Hirano.
An important visit by Eu Japan fest to Kaunas for a discussion on a series of cultural activities aimed at making part of the Japanese artistic and cultural world known in Lithuania.
Emilija Sakaliene has published her speech on the Eu Japan fest website in which she talks about the beautiful festival dedicated to Japanese artistic culture that was held in Kaunas. Certain to please our readers and at Eu japan fest we republish it on our online newspaper
"European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today" is a photography project that has been carried out since 1999 in cooperation with the European capital of culture each year.
2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, in collaboration with the nonprofit organization EU Japan Fest,extends an Open Call to Greek fine art photographers to participate in Mystery_8 European Eyes on Japan, under the artistic supervision of Mikiko Kikuta. Deadline: 31 october 2022.
Japanese artist Kenta Kambara will guest at the Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, during the closing ceremony of the film programme of the final arch Other? Europe ‘Seize the Film’, on 16 October.
Music producers, DJs, soundsystems & visual artists across Europe and Japan join forces this fall at SABOTAGE 2022. Only to showcase some of the best live performances, dj sets, new media art installations and to share knowledge through talks, documentaries & workshops. This year the program takes place at Corneliu Miklosi Public Transport Museum.
Satoshi Kudo is a Japanese dancer and a choreographer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Death Side is a Japanese hardcore band.
Chihiro Ito, an artist active in Japan and abroad, including European Capital of Culture such as Guimarães and Paphos , will participate in a group exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania. This exhibition is an audio-visual installation by Jonas Mekas, the father of American experimental video, Chihiro Ito, and two others.
From 12 to 28 August the Small Reboots exhibition will be held at the Museum of Contemporary art Vojvodina (Novi Sad, Serbia) with some Japanese artists such as Sachiko Kodama, Ai Hasegawa, Okada Hiroko, Takanori Ishizuka, Tomohiko Hayashi. In addition, training sessions with students are scheduled from 1st to 21st August. The artists Sachiko Kodama and Ai Hasegawa will participate.
Mama!milk is an instrumental duo by Japanese accordionist and composer Yuko Ikoma with contrabassist and composer Kosuke Shimizu.
In Novi Sad (Serbia), the NEO Festival starts on 17 June. On 6 July (Galerija Matice srpske, H 20:00), with Eu-Japan Fest support , cellist Mr Shizuka Mitsui and violinist Ms Yukiko Uno will perform with pianist Mr Pavle Krstić. Masterclasses will also be held by the participating musicians at this festival.