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Youth & Music
Music Program by Artist
Lecture and Concert by Jazz Pianist Yutaka Shiina


Lecture at the high school in Shizuoka
Dates：
 26 Mar. 2006 - 17 Mar. 2007
Places：
 Iwamizawa-city, Asahikawa-city, Kitami-city, Kushiro-city /Hokkaido
Shizuoka-city / Shizuoka pref.
Joetsu-city / Niigata pref. ,
Chikugo-city / Fukuoka pref.
Sagamiono-city / Kanagawa pref.
Participants：
 Choir Club of Hokkaido Ryukoku Gakuen, Futaba Junior High School, Futaba High School (Iwamizawa-city),
Asahikawa Junior Jazz Orchestra (Asahikawa-city),
Brass band of Kushiro Tomihara Junior High School and Kushiro Kita Junior High School (Kushiro-city),
Brass band of Kitami Kita Junior High School, Kitami Toryo Junior High School, and Koei Junior High School (Kitami-city)
elementary and junior high school students in Shizuoka-city, in Joetsu-city, and in Chikugo-city

Jazz pianist Yutaka Shiina plays with a wide range of musicians and presents energetic live performances in Japan and overseas. His unique touch and sound, and his original compositions, draw large numbers of listeners. To communicate the appeal of jazz, for some years now Shiina has been holding workshops for musically active children and teenagers and performing in joint concerts with his students. Expanding the range of these activities this year, Shiina takes his program to different parts of Japan.

Photography
Mimmo Jodice Photography Exhibition: "Mito Mediterraneo
(Myths of the Mediterranean Speaking Through the Lens)"


Mimmo Jodice autographed the catalogue for the audience.
Date：
 26 Apr. - 30 Jun.
Venue：
 Italian Cultural Institute（Tokyo）
Organizers：
 Campagna, Italian Cultural Institute

This exhibit shows of 40 works from the "Mediterranean" series by Mimmo Jodice, the giant of Italian photography. The series consists of work shot by the Neapolitan in the 1980's and 1990's when he turned his eye on his own roots in the Mediterranean. The exhibit explores the world of Mediterranean mythology wafting in serenity and tension, sublimated by Jodice in his own language of representation.
＊Mimmo Jodice photographed Wakayama prefecture for volume six of the European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today project of the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee.

Youth & Music
International Music Festival for Youth
Choral Workshop with Mezzo-soprano Sonya Keogh


Workshop at Murasakibaru Elementary School
Date：
 17-20 May
Venue /
Participants：
 Ariake Junior High School / Choir club of this school(Shibushi-city, Kagoshima)
Ijyuin Primary School / Choir club of this school (Hioki-city, Kagoshima)
Murasakibaru Primary School / 6th grade students of this school
Civic Center in the Kirishima City Hall / Kirishima-city Kokubu Boys & Girls Choir（Kirishima-city, Kagoshima）
Visiting Japan for discussions in advance of the Cork Children's Chorus' participation in the International Music Festival for Youth in July, mezzo-soprano and Cork Children's Chorus director Sonya Keogh held a choral workshop for children in each of the towns she visited. The exercises and vocalization instruction she offered energized the children's expressions and voices in no time at all.
The students who participated in these workshops will host homestays and appear in joint performances for the music festival in July.

Youth & Music
International Music Festival for Youth in Kirishima
Workshops with Cork Children's Chorus Musical Director John O'Brien

Date：
 19 May
Place：
 Miyauchi Community Hall
(Kirishima, Kagoshima prefecture)
Participants：
 Green Echo Mixed Chorus

John O'Brien, musical director of the Cork Children's Chorus, visiting Japan for discussions as did Sonya Keogh, held a workshop for the adult mixed chorus Green Echo active in the city of Kirishima. He paced them through a range of training from exercises and vocalization to lyric expression. Their reunion at the music festival in July is one to look forward to.

Seminar
EU-Japan Symposium 2006:
Picture Books from Europe -- A door to languages and culture--





Date：
 21 May
Venue：
 International House, Osaka, 3F,　Conference Room "Icho"
Speakers：
 Tom Schoonooghe
[Illustrator / Flanders (Belgium)]
Marion Jablonski
[Children’s Literature Editor /France]
Rotraut Susanne Berner
[Illustrator / Germany]
Teresa Duran i Armengol
[Children’s Literature Researcher/Author / Catalunya (Spain)]
Hamish Buchan
[English Language Education Specialist / United Kingdom]
Moderator：
 Yasuko Doi [International Institute for Children's Literature in Osaka, Researcher / Japan ]
Organized by：
 The EU-Japan Symposium Organising Committee
Flanders Centre, Centre franco-japonais - Alliance francaise d'Osaka, Goethe-Institut Osaka, Extension, Centre Catala de Kansai, British Council Osaka, Osaka International House Foundation
This was the fifth EU-Japan Symposium, held jointly with European cultural institutions each year in the Kansai region to promote mutual understanding between Japan and the member countries of the European Union. This year's symposium engaged in an exchange of opinions comparing the culture and situation of child education and image of the family in the respective countries as seen through their picture books and on the themes of intercultural understanding and foreign-language learning by children through the picture books of other countries. Audience-participation programs in addition to the symposium included picture book readings and workshops for children offered by panelists Schoonooghe and Berner that we are confident provided further opportunity for deeper understanding.

Fine arts
C.A.R.K. Contemporary Artists in Residence Kanazawa


Artists: Mr. Motoi Yamamoto (Left)
and Ms.Christina Dimitriadis (right)
Date：
 29 May - 18 Jun.
Venue：
 Kanazawa Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori, Ishikawa International Salon, Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center, Kanazawa College of Art (Kanazawa-city, Ishikawa)
Artists：
 Christina Dimitriadis（Greece）
Motoi Yamamoto (Japan)
Fred Ziegler (Germany)
Takashi Ishida (Japan)
AdriAn Mendieta Perez (Mexico)
Organized by：
 C.A.R.K. Executive Committee
＊C.A.R.K. website is here!
This is the second year of the Contemporary Artist in Residence in Kanazawa program of exchange between Japan and Europe fronted by Assistant Professor Kenji Endo of the Kanazawa College of Art. It is conducted each year between the city of Kanazawa and that year's Cultural Capital of Europe. This year five artists will be working in residence in Kanazawa, showing their work in exhibits and lecturing at the Kanazawa College of Art.

Performing arts
Co. YAMADA Un Contemporary Dance Tour of Eastern Japan


YAMADA Un (photo by Seiko Kashima)
Date／Venue：
23 Jun. /Izumitei 21 (Sendai-city, Miyagi pref.)
30 Jun. /Tsukuba Capio Hall（Tsukuba-city, Ibaragi）
9 Oct. /Concarino (Sapporo-city, Hokkaido)
Performer：
 Co. Yamada Un
Programs：
 "One◆Piece", " W.i.f.e"
Organized by：
 Co. Yamada Un
Produced by：
 Contemporary Art Network (CAN)
Prior and subsequent to performing at the Cultural Capital of Europe Patras 2006, Co. YAMADA Un tours eastern Japan. We look forward to their performances in Japan and Europe.

 
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