Free admission/advance reservations required (first come first served basis)
Enrollment limit: 50

Keynote presentation
“Wrapping and being wrapped: How body communication transcends the spoken word”
Speaker: Kozo Watanabe (cultural anthropologist, professor at the Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, and vice president of Ritsumeikan University)

Report
“Educating children with symptoms of autism or developmental disorders”
Presenter: Yuitsu Koike (teacher in the “tsukyu” support class for children with mind developmental disorders at Gohongi Elementary School in Meguro-ku)

Report
“Workshop theory: Individuality and independence”
Presenter: Ohiro Minato (composer/musician)

Research report
“Perception, embodiment, and art in the space between reality and the virtual world”
Presenter: Sohei Wakisaka (researcher at the Laboratory for Adaptive Intelligence, Riken Brain Science Institute)

Panel discussion
Topic:
“Social nature: Body, language, empathy, mutual understanding, and memory”
Panelists:
Kozo Watanabe (cultural anthropologist, professor at the Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, and vice president of Ritsumeikan University)
Yuitsu Koike (teacher in the “tsukyu” support class for children with mind developmental disorders at Gohongi Elementary School in Meguro-ku)
Ohiro Minato (composer/musician)
Sohei Wakisaka (researcher at the Laboratory for Adaptive Intelligence, Riken Brain Science Institute)
Hideo Arai (dance artist)
Coordinator:
Yasuhiko Tsutsumi (president of NPO Children Meet Artists)

PKT mini-exhibit
A series of photographs illustrating how past projects have evolved from the workshop stage to the performance stage

Organizers:
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Tokyo Culture Creation Project Office (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
NPO Children Meet Artists