It is a series of seminars for performing arts professionals, especially performing arts producers. Seminars with such themes as “Development of administrative skills,” “The mentality you need to keep being a performing arts producer,” and “Building space for enhancing network” have been held aiming to promote training of arts managers who can work to expand the influence of the entire field of performing arts on society and to stimulate performing arts business. The fourth semester will be a five-day learning program with Takuo Miyanaga, Executive Producer of theatre company “mamagoto”, as a lecturer. Miyanaga has produced all of mamagoto’s works, including Waga Hoshi (Our Planet), the winner of the 54th Kishida Kunio Drama Award.
Through this program, Next will be trying to identify and examine the problems that the participants faced with in order to explore possibilities of solutions through mainly group discussions among the lecturers and participants.