Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) hosts each year a forum to discuss the current and important themes in the field of arts and culture. This year’s forum will focus on the value and potential that arts and culture bring to our cities.
International collaboration in arts and culture is a crucial factor in enhancing the city’s creativity and generating new value. This forum will invite international experts to delve deep into the challenges and opportunities faced by artists and artistic organizations in the global art scene, the importance of building international networks, and the role of cultural policy.
We will invite Araf Ahmadali , Director of the Department of Arts & Culture of the City of Amsterdam, Choi Seok Kyu, Artistic Director of the Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF), and Gilles Doré, Executive Director of CINARS, to discuss new opportunities and challenges in international arts development, policies and systems to support internationally active artists and artistic organizations, and the capacity building of professionals skillful of international marketing and management. With Tsukaguchi Mariko as moderator, we will engage in discussions with concrete examples.
Through these discussions, we will conduct a multifaceted analysis of the impact of internationalization of arts and culture on cities and explore new perspectives on creating sustainable arts and cultural sector.
*There will be no live streaming.
*Please note that program contents may be subject to change.
■About Arts Council Forum
We organize forums which deal with current and important themes in the field of art and culture. Our mission is to serve as an appropriate center for the transmission and discussion of artistic and cultural activities that affirm and enhance Tokyo’s presence as an international city, through discussion among arts councils, facilities and institutions for artistic and cultural exchange, artists and researchers in Japan and other countries.
Part 1: Presentation
Part 2: Discussion
Part 3: Networking
*Simultaneous Japanese-English interpretation provided
*UD Talk will be used for real-time captioning
Araf Ahmadali (Director of the Department of Arts & Culture of the City of Amsterdam)
Choi Seok Kyu (Artistic Director of Seoul Performing Arts Festival)
Gilles Doré (Executive Director of CINARS)
Moderator
Tsukaguchi Mariko (President and Secretary General of Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM))
Araf Ahmadali
Director of the Department of Arts & Culture of the City of Amsterdam
Araf Ahmadali has been the director of the Department of Arts & Culture of the City of Amsterdam since February 2021, after being a policy advisor for this department for several years. He has a broad experience in making policies on international cultural affairs, funding, entrepreneurship and creative industries and a passion for creative (and digital) innovation and music production. He was in the lead to realize the first ‘Night vision’ of the City of Amsterdam; that calls for acknowledgement of night culture as a relevant artistic driver of Amsterdam and part of its cultural policy.
Choi Seok Kyu
Artistic Director of Seoul Performing Arts Festival
Festival director, producer, and researcher. Currently Kyu is artistic director of Seoul Performing Arts Festival (2022-26) and creative director of Performing Arts Market in Seoul (2020-22). Kyu focuses on the discourse of contemporary art, developing and creating festival programs, creative research residencies, labs, workshops, and many other projects. He has acted as festival or creative director of many events, including the UK/Korea Season Festival 2017-18, the Chuncheon International Mime Festival, and the Ansan Street Arts Festival. In 2005, he established AsiaNow Productions, to develop, produce and present innovative Korean/Asian contemporary physical theatre, dance and interdisciplinary arts. In 2013, Kyu initiated the Asian Producers’ Platform, a collective network of independent producers in the Asian region and recently he co-founded the Asia-Pacific Festivals Connection (APFC) for Asian artists’ mobility and developing Asian perspectives.
Gilles Doré
Executive Director of CINARS
Since March 2022, Gilles Doré is the Executive Director of CINARS. Previously he was the Director of International Development for the performing arts. For the past 25 years, Mr. Doré acquired a solid experience in arts management and international development for the arts. Over the years, he has been general manager of Art Circulation a contemporary dance consortium, financial director O Vertigo Dance company, general manager of the Caserne Letourneux of the Theatre Sans Fil – a center dedicated for residencies and production. He was also a consultant for the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec & University of Montreal and also for the Art Council of the city of Laval and some music and theatre companies.
Moderator
Tsukaguchi Mariko
President and Secretary General of Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM)
Ttsukaguchi Mariko worked at Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication (PARC) and the secretariat of Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (TPAM) as a program officer from 2006 to 2017. As a grantee of the program of overseas study for upcoming artists 2009 by Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan, she did an internship at Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh and Riverside Studio in London.
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Tuesday, January 21 – Wednesday, February 19, 12:00, 2025
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