The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) are carrying out the “Tokyo Cultural Program” in order to cause big waves to achieve a society based on arts and culture towards 2020 and hand it over to future generations. To accomplish this goal, Arts Council Tokyo call plans and ideas from the public for the Tokyo Cultural Program to be implemented from the autumn of 2019 to September 2020.
Innovative and creative plans and ideas that allow more people to participate are welcomed. The aim is to create projects that play a central role of the “Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL” to be initiated in April 2020, make the Tokyo Cultural Program memorable, and enhance Tokyo to be a more creative cultural city in 2020 onward.
We look forward to your creative plans or ideas with full of creativity and a challenging spirit, taking this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attract the attention of the world.

Public Call for Project Proposals for Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL
– Application Period: From Thursday, February 1 to Wednesday, February 28, 2018
– Date of Approval: July 2018 (planned)
– Prior Explanation Meeting
　E From 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 11, 2018 *The number of applications reached the capacity, so that acceptance of applications was finished.
　F From 2:00 p.m. on Friday, January 12, 2018 *The number of applications reached the capacity, so that acceptance of applications was finished.
　G From 2:00 p.m. on Monday, January 15, 2018 *The number of applications reached the capacity, so that acceptance of applications was finished.

Full press release (PDF) is available here.
Public Call for Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Project Proposals

For more details, please see the program page.