With the aim of building greater understanding and experience in areas of arts and culture which meet the interests of individual children, we are offering programs instructed by arts university professors which enable participants to experience the joy of creating, expressing, and thinking through the experience of making things and of live performance in multiple genres of arts and culture.
1. Placard! Placard! “Wear” a picture, go out into the streets
Convert your current feelings and mood, or what you think about the times and society into colors and shapes and transfer them to T-shirts and canvas using silkscreen printing.
2. Metal accessories made from unprocessed metal
In this program participants make accessories like pin buttons, straps, pendants and bookmarks from tin plates patterned using a chisel and hammer. They can also get a first-hand feel for how things are made by taking a tour of a craft workshop.
3. Let’s make our own giant flower!
Participants cut large sheets of colored paper into flower petal shapes, decorate them with drawings, and put them together on a stem to make a flower roughly their height.
Once finished, individual participants can enjoy carrying around and looking at each other’s giant flowers.
4. Placement
A board game-like workshop in which participants can experience “creating” through the act of choosing and placing objects, offering the experience of observational practice and non-verbal communication.
5. Workshop on the “minimum architecture” of the chair
In this workshop participants make a chair in a form that can take their body and weight by working a range of materials with a variety of interesting tools.
6. Having fun with Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) “Welcome to the orchestra”」
This program will give participants the chance to experience live orchestral music. Tokyo University of the Arts students, graduates, and faculty members will play instruments, talk, and have fun together conveying the joy of an orchestra!
7. Try playing the shakuhachi, the sound of Japan
As well as offering performances by Tokyo University of the Arts faculty members, this program teaches participants about the history of the shakuhachi and the structure of the instrument, and they can also try playing the instrument themselves. This is a course facilitating a fun experience of Japanese culture through the shakuhachi.
8. Art activities in the community
The Asatte Asagao Project (Day After Tomorrow Morning Glory Project) has been rolled out all over Japan. The concept has also germinated in Tokyo University of the Arts and among the residents of the Ueno area. Under the project, participants will report on the local area by way of morning glories and produce a newspaper, the Asatte Shimbun (the Day After Tomorrow Newspaper).
Free
Tokyo University of the Arts “Kids & Youth Open Campus” Office
TEL：03-6264-1655（weekdays 10:00～17:00）
E-Mail：kidsyouth-oc-geidai2024@alfanet.jp
Tokyo University of the Arts Ueno Campus
（12-8, Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo）
