- Time of the event
- Saturday, February 7, 2015 14:00-17:00 (Open 13:30)
- Venue
- The Japan Foundation JFIC Hall [Sakura]
(Address: 4-4-1 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) - Sponsor
- Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
- co-sponsorship
- Japan Foundation Asia Center
Today, many arts and culture activities are being developed in cities and regions that address various social issues. What role should cultural institutions, such as the Arts Council, play in the context of various linkages between the arts and issues such as disaster reconstruction, the declining birthrate and aging population, and depopulation?
In the run-up to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, many cultural projects are expected to take place in Tokyo. There will be a wide range of unprecedented activities aimed at citizen participation and solving social issues. Furthermore, in an era when many arts and cultural activities focusing on the Asian region are being developed, it will become important for cultural institutions to learn from and learn from the advanced efforts of other Asian cities and regions.
This time, guests from cultural institutions in Seoul, Singapore, and Okinawa will be invited to consider the development of arts and culture activities that address urban and regional issues from the perspective of cultural policy. We will build a network of cultural institutions in Asian cities and regions that have had few contacts in the past, and lay the foundation for exchanges with a view to future cooperation.
report
Video of the day
first half
second half
Outline of the meeting
keynote speech
Yoshiyuki Taishita
[Senior Researcher/Director, Center for Arts and Culture Policy, Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting Co., Ltd.]
panel discussion
panelists
Sharon Chan
[Deputy Director, Research Unit, National Arts Council, Singapore]
Hyebo Kim
[Director of Policy Research and Development at Seoul Cultural Foundation]
Mikio Sugiura
[Program Director, Cultural Arts Promotion Division, Okinawa Prefecture Cultural Promotion Association]
moderator
Hiroo Ito
[President of the Japanese Society for Cultural Policy]
* Please note that the speakers are subject to change.
- Language
- simultaneous Japanese-English interpretation
- video distribution
- There is no distribution on the day. We plan to archive the recordings at a later date.
- participation fee
- Free (by prior application)
- How to apply
- Please send your name and affiliation to the following email address with the subject "2/7 Open Forum 2015 Application" by Thursday, February 5. (First 70 people: We will close the application once it is full)
forum [at] artscouncil-tokyo.jp
* Please change [at] of the recipient's address to @. - Contact Us
- Arts Council Tokyo (Contact: Suzuki, Chiba)
TEL: 03-6240-2293
Speakers' Profile (Courtesy)
Yoshiyuki OSHITA
Senior Researcher/Director, Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting
Arts & Culture Policy Center and Economic and Social Policy Department
He is a director of the Nitten Exhibition, a councilor of the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC), and an auditor of the Corporate Mecenat Council. He is a board member of the Society for Cultural Economics (Japan) and a board member of the Society for Cultural Policy Studies. Director of Japan Contents Association. He is a member of the Cultural Policy Subcommittee of the Council for Cultural Affairs. He is a member of the Tokyo Arts and Culture Council, a special counselor to Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City, a councilor of the Okinawa Arts Council, an advisor to Tsuruoka City for Food Culture and Creative Cities, an advisor to Niigata City's Culture and Sports Commission, and a founder of the Forum on the Extension of Copyright Protection.
Sharon CHANG
Deputy Director, Research Unit, National Arts Council, Singapore
Every two years, the Research Unit of the Singapore National Arts Council, of which Sharon Chan is deputy director, conducts a survey on human resources in the arts and culture sector in Singapore. His research focuses on productivity and growth measurement, industrial development, and non-market economic valuation of cultural resources. He is currently interested in measuring the effectiveness of community arts, cultural tourism, and arts education. He graduated from the National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics, and the University of Queensland (Australia).
Hae-Bo KIM
Director, Policy Research and Development Department, Seoul Cultural Foundation
Born in Popan, North Gyeongsang Province in 1972. He majored in physics at POSTEC (Popan Institute of Technology), majored in cultural policy at Chugye Graduate School of Art and Management (master's degree), and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in urban sociology at Seoul City Graduate School. From 2007 to 2011, lectured on the development of cultural resources at the Chugye Graduate School of Arts and Management. He has also written and lectured on cultural policy. Since 2004, he has served as manager of the arts support team, Seoul Art Space, Seoul Theater Center, and festival production team at the Seoul Cultural Foundation.
Mikio Sugiura
Program Director, Cultural Arts Promotion Division, Okinawa Prefecture Cultural Promotion Association
He was born in Tokyo. He graduated from the Department of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Graduated from Osaka City University Graduate School of Creative Cities, Department of Urban Economics. After serving as Senior Researcher for Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting, Project Manager for the Osaka Digital Content Business Creation Council (ODCC), and Director of the Kyoto Office of the Japan Image Industry Promotion Organization (VIPO), he assumed his current position. In addition to supporting the creation of foundations and structures for cultural and artistic groups in Okinawa Prefecture, the organization is working to improve the environment for the establishment of an Okinawan Arts Council. Joint Researcher, Research Center for Culture and Art, Shizuoka University of Culture and Art. He is a research fellow at Osaka City University Urban Research Plaza.
ITO Yasuo
President, Japan Society for Cultural Policy
After graduating from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo, he worked for an advertising company and a think tank before becoming a professor at Shizuoka University of Culture and Art in 2000 and a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Culture at University of Toyama in 2006. After retiring from University of Toyama in 2011, he worked as a concurrent lecturer at the Graduate School of Cultural Policy, Shizuoka University of Arts and Culture, the Graduate School of Social Design for the 21 Century, Rikkyo University, and the Graduate School of Art Management, Keio University. He specializes in cultural policy and art management. At the same time as conducting research and studies on the encounter between art and society from the perspective of management of art organizations and cultural policy, he is also involved in activities to realize this. Recent publications include Arts Management (Jointly edited by Suiyosha, 2009), 10 Years of Public Theater (Co-edited, published by Aegaku Shuppan, 2010), and Arts and Environment (Co-edited, Ronsosha, 2012).