World Taiko Conference
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- World Taiko Conference Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
2019 2nd term Creation Grant [Single-year grant program]
Business Overview
Online to promote the acquisition and exchange of knowledge and skills about taiko and to provide opportunities for international understanding and friendship. Programs: ・ A virtual concert inviting taiko drummers from around the world to commission and contribute their own music (held online) ・ Online activities to exchange opinions and exchange ideas through taiko drums (held online) ・ Online premium talks (held online) ・ A taiko experience for the general public (a public event) (held jointly with the Asakusa Taiko Festival) ・ Streaming video of electronic Japanese drum demonstrations (held online) Main artists: ・ Eitetsu Hayashi, Akitoshi Asano (Asano Taiko Culture Institute), Daigoro Asuka (Maidaiko Asuka Gumi), Leonard Eto, Seigo Yoshii, Franco Imperial (San Jose Taiko), Wisa Uemura (San Jose Taiko), Ian Cleworth (Tycoz), Kodo, and others
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, November 21, 2020 - 22nd (Sun)
- Venues
- online event
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Profile
【World Taiko Conference Executive Committee 】
With the Olympic and Paralympic Games scheduled to be held in Tokyo, the World Taiko Conference was organized for the first time in Japan. In addition to a wide range of people related to taiko, who have been limited in their ability to work together in the past, academic experts with experience in managing international cultural events and conferences have become executive members.
It will be an opportunity to promote the formation of an international network and human resource development of the taiko industry, which will lead to the future, by bringing together members of the taiko industry who have been engaged in individual activities in the past and exchanging with each other beyond the barriers existing between groups. In addition, regardless of nationality, age, gender, or disability, the project will provide opportunities for people to become familiar with the drum culture, and advocate the possibility of a multicultural society by utilizing the universal and socially inclusive characteristics of the drum.