- Date & Time
- Saturday, February 15, 2014
- Venue
- Tokyo International Forum Hall D5 (Yurakucho)
- Sponsor
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Arts Council Tokyo（Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture）
British Council - sponsorship
- Agency for Cultural Affairs
- planning cooperation
- NLI Research Institute, Ltd.
Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) and the British Council will host an open forum on Saturday, February 15, 2014 entitled "Olympic and Paralympic Games and Cultural Programmes - From London 2012 to Tokyo 2020".
According to the Olympic Charter, the aim of the Olympic Games is to "integrate sports with culture and education." When the Games are held, it is mandatory to hold a "cultural program" in parallel with the sports events.
The role of cultural programmes was particularly important at the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, with a diverse range of events launched 4 years before the Games, which attracted many audiences and artists from both the UK and abroad.
This time, we have invited key persons of the cultural program for the London Games, and they will talk about the planning and operation of the cultural program, challenges, and achievements, and explore the vision for the realization of the cultural program for the Tokyo 2020 Games.
report
Video and presentation materials of the day
British Council
「英国カルチュラル・オリンピアード関連フォーラム開催レポート」
Outline of the meeting
Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) and the British Council will host an open forum on Saturday, February 15, 2014 entitled "Olympic and Paralympic Games and Cultural Programmes - From London 2012 to Tokyo 2020".
According to the Olympic Charter, the aim of the Olympic Games is to "integrate sports with culture and education." When the Games are held, it is mandatory to hold a "cultural program" in parallel with the sports events.
The role of cultural programmes was particularly important at the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, with a diverse range of events launched 4 years before the Games, which attracted many audiences and artists from both the UK and abroad.
This time, we have invited key persons of the cultural program for the London Games, and they will talk about the planning and operation of the cultural program, challenges, and achievements, and explore the vision for the realization of the cultural program for the Tokyo 2020 Games.
- Contents
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- Presentation
Ruth Mackenzie
[Director, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad/Curator, London 2012 Festival]
Moira Sinclair
[Executive Director, Arts Council England (London and South East)]
Justine Simons
Director of Culture, City of London - Panel Discussion
Speakers: Ruth McKenzie, Moira Sinclair, Justin Simons
Moderator: Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
[Senior Researcher, Nissay Research Institute, Inc.
Tokyo Council for the Arts Chairperson, Cultural and Urban Policy Review Subcommittee]
*Please note that the speakers are subject to change.
- Presentation
- Language
- simultaneous Japanese-English interpretation
- Admission Fee
- Free (by prior application)
- How to apply
- *Reception has ended.
Speaker Profile
Ruth McKenzie
Director, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
Curator, London 2012 Festival
Artistic Director, Digignate Holland Festival
The Space Director
As Director of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and Curator of the London 2012 Festival, he led the UK's largest ever art festival with 25,000 artists and over 20 million spectators. He is currently the artistic director of the internationally renowned Digignate Netherlands Festival in Amsterdam and director of The Space, a new online arts platform for the BBC and the Arts Council. He has previously served as General Director of Manchester International Festival and Scottish Opera, Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, Executive Director of Nottingham Playhouse and Head of Strategic Planning at South Bank Centre. He is currently a consultant to the Vienna Festival, the BBC, the Tate, the London Symphony Orchestra and the British Film Institute, an advisor to five ministers in the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and has worked on projects with the BBC, Arts Council England, the Imperial War Museum and the British Council.
Moira Sinclair
Executive Director (London and South East Region), Arts Council England
, Mitsubishi No.1; Head of the Curatorial Group, Kan Art Museum
As Executive Director of Arts Council England, she is responsible for London and the South East region, overseeing the activities and management of 322 arts organisations that receive grants in the region. As a member of the Board of Arts Council England, he has been involved in policy development across England, with particular responsibility for growth and human resource development in the cultural sector. He made a significant contribution to the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games and is currently in charge of legacy programmes that will build on those achievements.
After studying drama at the University of Manchester, she worked in local government and performing arts. After working as the director of Vital Arts, an arts program for hospital patients, she joined Arts Council England in 2005. In fiscal 2004, we participated in the Cloa Leadership Program, which is designed for people who are expected to be active in the UK cultural sector. She is currently involved in the activities of Look Ahead Social Care and Housing, an organization that supports people with disabilities and the homeless, as an associate director.
Yuko Mori
City of London Culture Manager
He served as the Mayor of London's Culture Department for 11 years, and is currently acting Deputy Mayor for Culture. As head of the Mayor's Cultural Strategy, he is leading a programme of investment in creative industries such as film, fashion and design. In addition to overseeing the City of London's music, theatre, international cultural exchange, visual arts, cultural policy and public art, she is also director of the Lord Mayor's Trafalgar Square public art project, The Fourth Prince. At the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, he played a central role in the planning and implementation of the cultural programme as City Manager and Associate Creative Producer of London Festival 2012. It also launched the World Cities Culture Forum, which considers the future of culture and cities on a global scale, highlighting the importance of culture in people's lives and politics. Prior to his current position, he worked in the contemporary dance field for 10 years in several major theaters. He is currently a board member at the Thames Festival, the British Film Commission, the London Design Festival, the British Fashion Council and is chairperson of the board of directors of Big Dance.
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Senior Researcher, Nissay Research Institute
Tokyo Council for the Arts Chairperson, Cultural City Policy Review Subcommittee
Born in Tokushima Prefecture in 1958. After completing graduate school at Waseda University (urban planning), he worked at the Institute of Social Engineering and joined the Nissay Institute of Basic Research in 1989. In addition to working as a consultant for cultural facility development and artwork planning, he is engaged in research and research on cultural policy and creative cities. Tokyo Council for the Arts He has served as an expert committee member and a director of the Corporate Mecenat Council. His main works include "Art Strategic City (supervised, Kashima Publishing)".