Sketching “statues” event

Street performers dress up as outdoor “statues” and serve as models for this “statues” sketching event. Fountain Square will serve for three days as a studio open to all.

Date/TIme: Friday September 28, Saturday September 29, Sunday September 30, 2018
Morning Section: 10:00 – 12:00 Children’s “statues” sketching event
Participants: Up to age 18 (Parents/Caregivers may also take part)
Number of Participants: 75 (Reservations required. For further information click here.)
*For those who wish, sketches will be displayed until 17:00 on the day of the event.
Afternoon Section: 13:00 – 17:00 Sketching Meet open to all.
Open to children and adults. No experience, no reservations necessary.
*Anyone who can find an empty place is welcome to sketch.
Venue: Ueno Park (Fountain Square)
Items to bring: Those with sketching materials are free to use them. (Sketching paper, pencils, easels, draughting boards, and chairs will be available.)
*Venue may change or event may be cancelled due to inclement weather.

A program centering on artists, open to all, on the theme of Northeast Japan and its recovery from earthquake/tsunami disaster.

Tohoku art project in UENO by José María Sicilia Northeast Art Project in Ueno

Event 1: Tohoku and UENO, Hoshikuzu Yatai
Ueno has long been Tokyo’s “gateway to the north.” With that history in mind, Spanish artist José María Sicilia will speak about his continuous activities in the northeast since the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster, and create a venue in which to encounter the people who have been involved in those activities, and who experienced the tragic event.

Date/Time: Friday September 28, Saturday September 29, Sunday September 30, 2018 10:00 – 17:00 (Planned)
Venue: Ueno Park (Fountain Square)
*Venue may change or event may be cancelled due to inclement weather.

Event 2: Exibition – Reminding Future: José María Sicilia “A Country Called Accident”
Using sound analysis to create 2 or 3-dimensional figures, Sicilia has used the rumble of the approaching waves in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster to create “A Country Called Accident,” along with a work, “Thousands years under MIKI ENDO,” commemorating the civil servant in the Miyagi Prefecture town of Minamisanriku who stayed at her post in the town office broadcasting tsunami warnings to the citizens until she was herself engulfed by the waves.

Date/Time: Friday, September 28, 2018 to Sunday, February 24, 2019. 9:30 – 17:00
*Event conforms to the Library’s hours of operation. (Closed Mondays, national holidays, and the 3rd Wednesday of every month)
Venue: National Diet Library, International Library of Children’s Literature, Brick Building, 3rd Floor Hall/Lounge

Event 3: Talk – José María Sicilia, with Children from Tohoku, Return to Us
Since the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Spanish artist José María Sicilia has been a frequent visitor to the affected region, and driven by the desire to remember, has conducted many workshops for children traumatized by the disaster. He will discuss the works he is exhibiting, along with the workshops he has conducted in the Tohoku area with Aomi Okabe,Director of the “Ueno, a Global Capital of Culture” International Division.

Date/Time: Friday, September 28, 2018 13:00 – 14:30
*No restrictions on venue entry/exit
Venue: National Diet Library, International Library of Children’s Literature, Brick Building, 3rd Floor Hall
Participants: approximately 100 (no reservations; first-come first-served)
*Talks will be given in Spanish and Japanese. There will be Japanese/English consecutive interpretation, and Japanese sign-language interpretation.

Public Radio Talk by Toru Koyamada “Kikimimi Radio”

A public radio broadcast in which artist Toru Koyamada and guests walk around Ueno Park talking on the theme of “disaster prevention,” and giving their opinions on such matters as disasters and emergency food supplies. Participants will accompany them and be able to join in the conversation.

Date/Time: Friday September 28, Saturday September 29, 2018 13:00 – 14:00, 16:00 – 17:00 (Planned)
Venue: Ueno Park (Fountain Square)
*For details see the UENOYES official site.
Items to bring: Radio receiver, earphones
Radio receivers will be on loan for no charge (80 receivers per session). Broadcast will be in Japanese and English.
*Event takes place rain or shine; cancelled in the event of severe weather

Art programs seeking original viewpoints on the cultural resources and history of Ueno from the perspective of social inclusion.

Dance Performance by Newcomer “H” Sokerissa!by “Plaza U”

Over approximately 10 weeks, Yuki Aoki and his dance troupe Newcomer “H” Sokerissa! will present a new performance they have developed over approximately 10 weeks of public rehearsals at the Ueno Park Fountain Square.

Date/Time: Friday, September 28, Saturday, September 29, Sunday, September 30, 2018 16:15 – 17:00
Venue: Ueno Park (Fountain Square)
*For details see the UENOYES official site.
*Viewing of performance open to all.
*Venue may change or event may be cancelled due to inclement weather.

Workshop on the sketching of the forest and how the Sokerissa! dance is born, presented by Newcomer “H” Sokerissa!

A dance workshop in which participants bring together their individual characters and body shapes. Through stretching participants observe their own bodies in action, and search for dance moves unique to themselves.

Date/Time: Friday, September 28, Saturday, September 29, Sunday, September 30, 2018 11:00 – 12:30
Venue: Ueno Park (Fountain Square)
*Participation open to all.
*Venue may change or event may be cancelled due to inclement weather.

“Become the ears of the whole body, become the eyes of the whole body”
Performance and Workshop with participants conducted by Sound Artist: Nao Nishihara and Painter Ryuhei Fujita

Workshop on the theme “Become the ears of the whole body, become the eyes of the whole body”.
Participants will join members of the general public from earlier sessions in a workshop in which they will rethink eyes, ears, arms, legs, and movement of the entire body, following which they will all put on a public performance in the park.

Date/Time: Friday, September 28, Saturday, September 29, Sunday, September 30, 2018 11:00 – 12:00, 14:15 – 15:15
Venue: Ueno Park (Fountain Square)
*Viewing of performance open to all.
*Venue may change or event may be cancelled due to inclement weather.

Participatory Choral Performance by Torus Vil “Sing Park Harmonia,”

A choir performance in which anyone can join in, with harmonies created from simple sung phrases, and opportunities for soloists to show their talents as well, under the direction of Kimiya Sato, leader of Torus Vil.

Date/Time: Friday, September 28, Saturday, September 29, Sunday, September 30, 2018 from 12:30, 15:15, and 16:00
Venue: Ueno Park (Fountain Square)
*For details and reservations for preliminary workshops, click here.
*Participation open to all (no reservations necessary)
*Venue may change or event may be cancelled due to inclement weather.

“FIVE LEGS Factory” Jun Kitazawa

“Translating” the different culture of the “kaki lima” mobile food carts that come and go on the streets of Indonesia into Ueno gives this part of Tokyo a whole new type of street scene. Creating a “kaki lima” in Ueno Park will change its scenery as well, giving people a new place in which to gather.

Date/Time: Friday, September 28, Saturday, September 29, Sunday, September 30, 2018 10:00 – 17:00 (Planned)
Venue: Ueno Park (Fountain Square)
*Participation open to all.
*Event takes place rain or shine.

Takayuki YAMAMOTO Workshop “Children’s Pride, Ueno Park”

Come and join with other children and shout out what you really want to say! Holding placards and waving flags, we will march through Ueno Park. The way you think things should be: write it on a placard, and march with us through the park.

Date: Sunday, September 30, 2018
Production of placards 13:00 – 15:00.
Age: From 4 to 12 years (Parents/Caregivers may also participate)
Participants: 30 (Reservations required. For further information, click here.)
Parade 15:15 – 16:00
Parade with children and their placards.
Participation open to all, children and adults.
Venue: Ueno Park and neighboring district
*Event takes place rain or shine.

There will be official guided tours at following schedule during UENOYES BALLOON Days 2018. Anyone can participate in the tour.
*Reservations required. For further information click here.

Date/Time: Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30 2018
11:00-12:30　Interactive guided tour for the visually-impaired (up to 10 persons)
13:30-14:30　Guided tour with sign language interpretation included (up to 10 persons)
15:00-16:00　English guided tour (up to 10 persons)
*The tours will be conducted in Japanese except for the English tour.
*The English tour starting from 15:00 on Sunday, September 30 will be available via FM Radio receiver. (Radio devices will be available for rent for the first 80 visitors.)

Implementation Committee for New Concept “Ueno, a Global Capital of Culture”
TEL：03-5834-2396