Toshima Art Summer Festival 2025
Business Overview
The Toshima Art Summer Festival is held every summer vacation to create a place where local people and children can experience art and discover and interact with each other. The Nishisugamo Art Summer Festival began in 2007 with an art factory called Nishisugamo Sosousha in a closed junior high school. Since 2012, the festival has evolved into the Toshima Art Summer Festival, with several venues in Toshima City offering programs that allow more people to come in contact with art.
In fiscal 2025, the event was held not only in the center of Ikebukuro but also throughout the ward for parents and children who have difficulty traveling long distances. A total of five programs were held: a touring performance of Yomishibai, an animation screening in English, an artist workshop, and a music concert.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, August 2, 2025, 3rd (Sun), 5th (Tue) - 11th (Mon/Holiday), 19th (Tue) - 21st (Thu), 30th (Sat)
- Venues
- Kamikumin Hiroba Minami-Otsuka, Minami-Ikebukuro, Komagome, Fujimidai, Kaname
Kid Skip Takamatsu, Toyonari, Chihaya, Sakura
Zoshigaya Gymnasium Stadium
Zoshigaya Park Multipurpose Plaza
Toshima Kamikumin Center Multipurpose Hall
(Toshima Ward)
Profile
[Toshima Culture Creation Project Executive Committee]
Established in February 2007 by Toshima Ward, Toshima Ward Board of Education, NPO Art Network Japan and NPO Artists and Children. In 2012, the Toshima Foundation for Future Culture joined the organization.
In Toshima Ward, which aims to become "a theater city where the whole town is a stage and everyone can play a leading role," the local government, the Board of Education, an NPO with an art manager rooted in the local area, and the Culture and Art Foundation formed an executive committee with the aim of providing various art experiences for children by utilizing their know-how and resources.