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Lecture Series for the Future of the Performing Arts 2023: Toward Sustainable Creative Environments

  • Organization : Open Network for Performing Arts Management
  • Section : Project for improvements in the creative environment
  • Type of Grant Program : Single
  • Art Forms : Interdisciplinary

Outline

Focusing on internal creative environments within our own minds and bodies etc. rather than on the external factors that hinder sustainable creative environments, a total of six online lectures (including viewing of archived video) were delivered on a range of themes.

The titles of each lecture and the names of the lecturers were as follows:
“The aged and theatrical expression” – Naoki Sugawara/Nanako Nakajima
“The performing arts and play” – Akira Amagasaki
“Theater for babies” – Yasumasa Asano
“Theater as seen from brain science” – Shoji Tanaka
“Archiving: creativity and future orientation” – Shunya Yoshimi
“The public nature and public sphere of the performing arts” – Tadashi Uchino

The interchange of opinions from the frontlines – for example artists also taking to the podium and raising issues – resulted in understanding and awareness to accompany participants’ actual experience.
Informal talks were held after each session and preliminary reports delivered. After the lecture series finished, the reports were also published online free of charge.
The lecture series encouraged consideration of sustainable creative environments for the performing arts with a view to the future; it also provided an opportunity to reconsider the social value of the performing arts and their potential to encapsulate and change the essence of people and society.

Profile

Open Network for Performing Arts Management
Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM) is a Japan-wide/international membership networking organization comprising people involved in work that connects artists/arts organizations with audiences.
People who promote the performing arts proactively participate, exchanging and sharing information and ideas that are updated daily through their respective work, forming a platform that leads to development in professional activities. ON-PAM aims to contribute to an increase in the benefits for performing arts and society as a whole by defining and raising recognition of the social role of contemporary performing arts, and by proposing and making recommendations for cultural policy, etc.

Contact

Open Network for Performing Arts Management
#403 Nippo Ebisu Building, 1-15-9, Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
150-0013
info@onpam.net

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ZOOM Webinars/ ZOOM Meeting