- Date & Time
- Thursday, December 18, 2025 19:00~21:00 (Doors open 18: 45)
- Venue
- Arts Council Tokyo 5th floor conference room
(4-1-28 Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Kudan First Place 5th floor)
- Time
- How has creative activity changed since the COVID-19 pandemic 20 years ago?
- space
- Theater, atelier, online, Tokyo, local, overseas ... How have creative spaces and places changed?
- Human (Jinkan)
- How has the relationship between artists and audiences changed?
Arts Council Tokyo has been implementing the "Creation Grant [Long-term Grant]" since FY2013, which subsidizes long-term activities for up to three years, with the aim of promoting creative activities by supporting not only presentation activities but also the process of creating works such as research and auditions, and supporting the stepping up of art organizations.
We are pleased to announce that we will hold a debriefing session to share the results, issues, and ideas of Reiwa our efforts by having the two organizations eligible for the grant for three years from FY3 (2021) and Reiwa FY4 (2022).
In the first part, we will introduce two projects: the project (Disc Riding School), where the artists gathered in the joint atelier (the place to ride the disc) delved into their own themes and areas of interest, and worked on new methods of expression (the Disc Riding School), and the project (UPN LLC), which engaged in a new form of international co-production in which artists freely create based on a single concept during the Corona disaster.
In the second part, we will have Torao Osawa as a commentator, and we will hold a talk session with the speakers on the perspective of "time, space, and human beings" on the state and diversity of creation, and exchange information with the participants. At the end, we will set up a time for exchange, and aim to provide an opportunity for creative ideas and new collaborations between speakers and participants.
Groups, speakers, and commentators
- group of speakers
- discus group
- speaker
- Kageyama Meteorological Observatory (playwright/director/representative of the discus riding school)
Hiyorigeta (actor/project member of the discus riding school)
- group of speakers
- UPN Limited Liability Company
- speaker
- Yukari Sakata (Director/President of UPN GK, member of Terrasia)
Miho Inatsugu (Actor/member of Terrasia)
- commentator
- OSAWA Torao (Senior Researcher, Culture Commons Research Institute, LLC)
Outline of the reporting business
Place to ride a discus (Project adopted in FY 2021/3 years)
With the aim of creating a new discourse that will renew the meaning of art and culture in contemporary society, the project has been working to open up the creative process, experiments on ideas, and exchanges of multiple artists that are not normally exposed to the public, using the studio of the discus group and its web page as a platform.
Activity reports, presentations (NEO Expression Festival, NEO Expression Festival Satellite, NEO Expression Festival Z), the publication of a free paper describing the creative process, and the production of a booklet summarizing the efforts over the past three years were held. Each artist interacted with each other while stimulating each other based on their own interests and awareness of problems, and each sought new ways of expression that went beyond conventional methods while repeating concrete efforts.
Terazia | A play that travels through the era of isolation (a project adopted in FY 2022/3 years)
A new era of international collaborative projects that began with the COVID-19 pandemic. Developed his work "TERA" with contemporary beliefs and views on life and death in various parts of Asia including Japan, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and Indonesia.
I researched my stay in Indonesia, produced video works, held an international festival, published interviews with the artists of "Terazia" (Japanese and English) on the web, and produced an electronic version of a documentary book. Through art, I aimed to present to society a model case of international partnership in the future in response to the questions of "how to respect different cultures," "is it possible to work together even if we are far from each other," and "how can we continue to work together under difficult circumstances?."
Profile of organizations and speakers
discus group
「複数の作家・表現者が一緒にフラットにいられるための時間、あるべきところにいられるような場所」を作るための演劇プロジェクトとして2018年にスタート。劇場を訪れ、帰っていくまでに体験する全てを「演劇」として捉え、冊子の発行やさまざまなイベントの開催など、上演作品の発表だけにとらわれない活動を展開している。2021年にはコミュニティとしての共同アトリエ「円盤に乗る場」を設立し、表現にまつわる新しいつながりを探究している。近年の上演作品に『仮想的な失調』（2024年、東京芸術祭 2024プログラム）など。現在のメンバーはカゲヤマ気象台（劇作家・演出家）、日和下駄（俳優）、畠山峻（俳優）、渋木すず（アドバイザー／ウォッチャー）の4人。
https://noruha.net/
speaker
Kageyama Meteorological Observatory (Kageyama Meteorological Observatory) Playwright/Director/President of the Han-no-ni Ride School
Born in 1988 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the First Faculty of Letters, Waseda University. He is the representative of the play project Hado ni Ride. Engaged in theatrical production, direction and sound design. In 2015, he was selected as a Saison Fellow of the Saison Cultural Foundation. Won the Grand Prize at the 17 AAF Drama Awards for City III.
Hiyari-geta (Hiyari-geta) Actor/Han-no-wari-ha Project Member
Born in Tottori Prefecture in 1995. Graduated from Yokohama National University. Actor and producer. Since 2019, he has participated in the theatrical project Hasu ni Ride ha. He appeared in all subsequent films. He was a member of the Komaba Agora Theater Production Department from 2021 to 2024. Producer of "NEO Expression Project" from 2021 to 2024.
UPN Limited Liability Company
フリーランスとして活動してきた坂田ゆかり（演出）と、渡辺真帆（ドラマトゥルク・通訳・翻訳）が、分野横断的な文化芸術事業を行うため組織した法人である。アートイベントの企画運営、作品制作、編集・出版など、領域にとらわれない活動を展開している。
https://upn-jp.com/
speaker
Yukari Sakata, Director/President of UPN Limited Liability Company, member of Terrasia
A director. In 2014 he co-directed "Rashomon | Yabu no Naka" (In the Yabu) with Alcazaba Theater (Palestine) (Festival/Tokyo 14). In 2018, he exhibited "Dear Gullivers," a long-term project with architect Jorge Martin Garcia, at the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture. His latest production, Terra, has been performed in various forms and locations in Tokyo (Jodo Shu Saihoji) in 2018, 3 cities in Tunisia (Carthage International Theatre Festival) in 2019, Kyoto (Rinzai Shu Kosho-ji) in 2021, and Jakarta and Bandung (Suterazia International Art Festival) in 2024.
Miho Inatsugu (Actor/Terrasia member)
He started acting while he was a student at Tokyo University of the Arts, and works as a freelancer. She has appeared in the works of Sample, Okazaki Geijutsuza, Cherfitsch, Mikunya Naihara Project, Bass Trio, Office Mountain, Tokatsu Sports, Orta, Yukari Sakata, Tomoko Kawaguchi, and others. He has also participated in many overseas tours, appearing in an international co-production with Poland of director Magda Speft's "Always Coming Home" (2019), playing a wide range of roles both inside and outside of Japan. In parallel with acting, he is also engaged in various experimental activities as a member of the Living Room Theater (since 2013), which develops various works centered on art projects, and the Con-Cen project (since 2024), which installs the functions of a theater as a program in the city. His latest work is Nutmic (writer, director, music: Daishi Nukata) "Kanokata no Shimatachi no Monogatari" (Stories of the Islands Beyond).
commentator
Torao Osawa (Senior Researcher, Culture Commons Research Institute, LLC)
In 1994, after graduating from Keio University, he was involved in planning the management and operation of public halls and theaters, as well as opening preparations. In 2003, he undertook training in theater management in the suburbs of Seattle, USA under the Study Abroad Program for Emerging Artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs. After returning to Japan, he served as Director and Executive Director of the NPO ST Spot Yokohama, as a member of the Steering Committee of the University of Tokyo Open Lecture on Cultural Resources "Civil Society Regeneration," and as Senior Researcher of the Art and Culture Project Office, NLI Research Institute. In April 2023, he established the Cultural Commons Research Institute and became its President and Senior Researcher.
Admission Fee
Free
capacity
80 persons
How to apply
Please fill out this form and apply.https://formok.com/f/ucpapn0d
Application Deadline
Thursday, December 18, 2025 12:00
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information security
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Notes
- This debriefing session will record photos, videos, and audio for the purpose of publicity and recording by the organizers. The record will be published as a report article on the Arts Council Tokyo website at a later date. Please note.
- The contents of the program are subject to change. We appreciate your understanding in advance.
Credit
- Sponsor
- Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo
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