Open Forum 2017

Time of the event

Saturday, March 4, 2017 14:00~17:00 (Doors open 13: 30)

Venue

Arts Council Tokyo Conference Room
(Kudan First Place 8F, 4-1 -28 Kudan-kita, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
* Access information here
* Parking is not available. Please use public transportation.

Sponsor

Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo

After studying politics, philosophy and economics at University of Oxford, he worked in programming for BBC Television and Radio for 13 years. He later became Artistic Project Director at London's Southbank Centre. In 1990 he became head of Birmingham City Council's arts and culture department, where he drew up the city's first arts and culture policy and led major festivals and arts projects. He returned to the BBC in 1999 to run Millennium Music Live across the UK. From 2000 he was General Director of Sage Gateshead (Norman Foster International Music Centre) for 15 years. In 2015, he moved to Canada and was invited as CEO of Luminato Festival, where he demonstrated his skills in creating new audiences. He is also involved in the cultural programme for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

After graduating from California State University, Berkeley, she worked at Yale University, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the American Cancer Society before joining the San Francisco Opera. After working in the fundraising department of the opera, he assumed his current position. In charge of the new audience creation project "Pop-Ups," he has been trying to bring the enjoyment of opera to people who had not been interested in opera in a casual space and atmosphere, and has achieved results that lead to the creation of new audiences. He also practices design thinking.

In 2009, he completed a doctoral course in Cultural Management at the University of Tokyo. While still a student, he was involved in the Yokohama Triennale and Koganecho Bazaar in 2005. After training at the Mori Art Museum's Curatorial Department, he returned to Taiwan. Based in Taipei since 2010, he has been a member of the Chungtae Foundation for Architecture, Culture and Arts, and has been involved in the conception and establishment of the Chungtae Art Museum, which opened in 2016. He has also been involved in research and contemporary art projects and exhibitions on the theme of cities and architecture. In 2013, he collaborated with the Mori Art Museum for the traveling exhibition "Metabolism: Future Cities" in Taipei.

Born in Tokyo in 1962. After graduating from Keio University, he joined Mitsubishi Corporation in 85. In 2000, he established Smiles Co., Ltd., and assumed the position of President. In addition to Soup Stock Tokyo, there are necktie specialty store giraffe, select recycling shop PASS THE BATON, family restaurant 100 spoons, and contemporary food and liquor store PAVILION. Based on its corporate philosophy of "enhancing the value of living," the company proposes a new way of life today that is not bound by conventional ideas or industry boundaries. His recent books include (I have decided to succeed) (Shincho Bunko) and (A business model for doing what you want -PASS THE BATON's path) (Kobundo).

Born in Tokyo in 1951. After graduating from the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Kobe University and the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, he engaged in research on ecological land use planning at Regional Planning Team Co., Ltd.
P3 art and environment was established in 89. Served as General Director of Tokachi International Contemporary Art Exhibition Demeter (2002), Secretary General of Asahi Art Festival (2003 – 2016), Curator of Yokohama Triennale 2005, General Director of Beppu Contemporary Art Festival Mixed Hot Spring World (2009, 2012, 2015), Director of Saitama Triennale 2016.