Lessons for Multicultural Coexistence: A Project to Connect Hands with Non-Common Sense

Name of the organization or individual

Catalyst Limited Liability Company

subsidy category

Social Grant

Grant Type

single year

FY2025 1st Term Social Grant

Image of the video introducing shelter simulation game Shelter Skelter. In the center is Hayataro Fujii (playwright, director, actor/Lantern Theater), who wrote and facilitated the game.

Announcement of Human Resource Development Training Key Visual (2025 Cross-Cultural Experience Role-Play Edition) Design: Hiromasa Yanaginuma (GOAT)

Seri Kurosawa (traveling director), who is in charge of script and facilitation, talks in the introduction video of the cross-cultural experience role-play version.

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Business Overview

This is the second year of the project, which started in FY 2024, with the aim of deepening understanding of diversity and fostering communication that respects each other using theatrical techniques.
In the first year (FY 2024), we developed and implemented a role-play game called "My Non/Common Sense," which deals with cross-cultural friction and microaggressions, and a simulation game called "Shelter Skelter," which allows participants to experience cooperation in a multicultural environment. Under the script and direction of Seri Kurosawa (traveling director) and Hayataro Fujii (playwright, director, actor/gento gekijo), workshops were held with people concerned with education, medical care, welfare, administration and community planning.
In this project (FY 2025), a video introducing the workshop was produced and training for facilitators and scriptwriters was conducted. In addition, the workshop was developed in cooperation with refugee support organizations, the government, media organizations, and public cultural facilities. The foundation for improvement and dissemination of the program was established through continuous hearings.

Period of Activity / Project

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Venues

[Workshops] Daida Ward Community Center, Moriyama District Hall, Kitazawa Minami Ward Community Center, Karasuyama Ward Community Center (all in Setagaya Ward)
[Business Report] Kitazawa Town Hall Sky Salon (Setagaya Ward)

Profile

[Godo Kaisha Catalyst]
A production company that creates "normal" 20 years later.
Through planning and production of performing arts, communication and training to enhance cross-language and cross-cultural literacy, he helps different fields and cultures meet and create positive chemistry.