Japan Days in Kaunas WA
Main program
Date: 25 Apr.~1 May 2022
Venue: Kaunas City
Artist:
Ryu Suzuki,
Aoi Yamaguchi,
Hanasaki Tokijyo,
Sansuzu Tsuruzawa,
Keiko Futatsuya,
Takao Norikoshi,
So Kanno,
Ayano Honda,
Ken Mai,
Tanaka Kyokusen
Related program
1) Festival Opening Event
Date: 25 Apr. 2022
Venue: BLC business center, Gallery Aukso Pjuvis (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Ayano Honda, Kaunas Dance Theater Aura, Choir Vyturys and other artists
2) So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi Installation Sensless Drawin Bot, workshops by So Kanno
Date: 25~30 Apr. 2022
Venue: Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: So Kanno
3) Exhibition Lithuania and Japan. We are Together in our Hearts
Date: 25 Apr.~12 May 2022
Venue: Garden of Historical Presidential Palace of the Republic of Lithuania (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Aurelijus Zykas, Linas Didvalis
4) Exhibition Shikoku 88 Temples Road
Date: 25 Apr.~10 May 2022
Venue: Kaunas National Puppet Theater (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Evaldas Karalius
5) Kimono Show in Laisvės Avenue
Date: 25 Apr. 2022
Venue: Laisvės Avenue (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Ayano Honda, students and professors of Vytautas Magnus University Center of Asian Studies
6) Hyrouki Mitsume Takahashi exhibition TRA and workshops
Date: 25 Apr.~1 May 2022
Venue: BLC Business Center Gallery, Azija LT, Kaunas 2022 office (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Hyrouki Mitusume Takahashi
7) Bronislaw Pilsudski exhibition Nations of Sakhalin
Date: 25~26 Apr. 2022
Venue: BLC Business Center Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Aurelijus Zykas
8) Video installation Following the Ainu Traces
Date: 25~26 Apr. 2022
Venue: M. Žilinskas Art Gallery Facade (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Vytautas Tumėnas, Anna Revelte
9) Japanese dance critic Takao Norikoshi lecture: “What Follows Butoh. The New Japanse Dance Nation”
Date: 25 Apr. 2022
Venue: Kaunas Dance Theater (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Takao Norikoshi
10) Japanese movie afternoons
Date: 26~30 Apr. 2021
Venue: Forum Cinemas Kaunas (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Cooperation: Embassy of Japan
11) Ieva Liaugaudaitė Zenga Calligraphy Exhibition “Wind Inviting Gently for a Dance”
Date: 26~30 Apr. 2022
Venue: Lexus Dealership in Kaunas Autotoja (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Ieva Liaugaudaitė
12) Japanese culture educational lessons for schoolchildren
Date: 25~29 Apr. 2022
Venue: Kaunas Education Innovations Center (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Kristina Barancovaitė Skindaravičienė
13) Lectures about Lithuania-Japan relations and Japanese traditions
Date: 26~28 Apr. 2022
Venue: Vytautas Magnus University Center of Asian Studies (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Linas Didvalis, Arvydas Kumpis, Kristina Barancovaitė-Skindaravičienė
14) Jiutamai Dance and Traditional Japanese Gidayu-Bushi Music Performances
Date: 26~28 Apr. 2022
Venue: BLC Business Center Belo Concert Hall and Kaunas University of Applied Sciences (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Tokijyo Hanasaki, Takemoto Koshikou, Tsuruzawa Sansuzu, Fukuhara Hyakushichi, Mixed Choir Sonoros
15) Premiere of Kaunas dance theater “Aura” – “
Esybė”(Entity), choreographer Ryu Suzuki
Date: 29 Apr. 2022
Venue: BLC Business Center Belo Concert Hall (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Ryu Suzuki, Rinako Iida, Kaunas Dance Theater Aura
16) Aoi Yamaguchi Calligraphy Performances and Workshops
Date: 28~29 Apr. 2022
Venue: Kaunas House of Artists, Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Aoi Yamaguchi
17) Joint Project of Japanese Artists Keiko and Atsushi Futatsuya with Lithuanian designers and dancers
Date: 27 Apr. 2022
Venue: Kaunas House of Artists (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Keiko and Atsushi Futatsuya, Jolanta Vazelinskienė, Lina Kusaitė, Olesė Kekienė
18) Haru Matsuri - Spring Celebration Outdoor Event
Date: 30 Apr. 2022
Venue: Kaunas Confluence Park (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Kyumeikan School, L. Dobkevičius Progymnasium and other schools, Ukrainian Community in Kaunas.
19) Japanese Music Concert Dedicated to the Centenary of Friendly Relations between Lithuania and Japan
Date: 27 Apr. 2022
Broadcast on National Television LRT Plius
Participant: Zbignevas Levickis (violin), Viktorija Miškūnaitė (soprano), Ugnius Vaiginis (trumpet), Žemyna Trink
20) Festival Closing Concert - Lithuania-Japan Friendship Celebration
Date: 30 Apr. 2022
Venue: BLC Business Center Belo Concert Hall (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Participant: Tanaka Kyokusen, Takumi Kato, Ken Mai, Ayano Honda, Dance Theater Aura, multipart songs collectives
