Three times a year at the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo, we hold a day-long performance-symposium event based on the theme “kids and art.” Most of the participants are children (infants as well as older kids) and their parents or guardians. Performers at the event include former staff members of the Children’s Castle (kodomo no shiro) in Aoyama, Tokyo, which invited children into the facility’s richly varied musical world for over 30 years, and a diverse range of creators who explore new possibilities for children and art in their various activities. We invite different lecturers to each symposium, and guide the participants into a world of ideas about kids and art from the perspectives of aesthetics and art theory, cultural policy, literature, philosophy, education, and more.
Music: former Children’s Castle staff members, Mayu Gondo, Kozue Katsuragi, Manami Kakudo, Yoko Yamaguchi, Baku Furukawa, Fumihisa Tanaka, Ken Sato, Haruo Kondo, Mari Sakamoto, Tatsuro Fukuzawa, Hitoshi Hamada, others
Actors: Yuri Nagoya, Niina Hashida (Seinendan / mamagoto)
Stage design: Ryoko Ando (design musica)
Promotional art: Soichi Suzuki
Symposia: Tanehisa Otabe (University of Tokyo, Department of Aesthetics), Mari Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Cultural Resource Studies), others