La presentazione che il segretario generale dell’Eu Japan Fest, Shuji Kogi ha fatto alla scena creativa locale durante la sua visita a Matera. Da ventitré anni infatti l’EU Japan Fest è uno dei momenti salienti delle Capitali Europee della Cultura che finanzia mettendo in relazione la cultura giapponese con quella della Capitale designata. L’appuntamento è stato organizzato proprio per conoscere le attività svolte dall’EU Japan Fest nelle altre Capitali Europee della Cultura e le opportunità di cooperazione con la scena creativa giapponese che possono nascere nell’ambito di Matera 2019.

1. 24 Nov.2016, Matera
EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee

2. European Capital of Culture as Global Project

3. Culture Today
What is European Culture?
What is Japanese Culture?

4. Culture Today
We are so similar
so different
so global

5. Culture Today
Culture in Europe
≒
Culture in Japan
Local
Identity
Globalization

6. EU-Japan Fest in ECoC : 1993～2016 40 cities 26 countries

7. Category, genre list ①
-Various projects we have supported since 1993-
Category Genre
Architecture, Design
Urban design
City planning
Product design
Fashion
Building design
Pechakucha Night
City and Culture
Craft design
…and more
People to People
Volunteer program
Academic conference
Pechakucha Night
Presentation
Community art project
Artist in residence
…and more
PechaKucha
Photography
Photography festival
Photographer based in your region
Gallery
Exhibition
Art school, University
Artist collective
…and more
Youth
University
Street art
Hip hop, DJ, VJ
Sports
Choir
Art and culture education
…and more
Pop-culture
Animation
Manga
video game, board game
pop music
subculture
…and more
Cinema, movies
Documentary
Short film
Animation
Fantasy horror
…and more
Art Practice
Painting
Sculpture
Media art
Ceramic, pottery
Glass
Crafts
Prints
Wooden Prints
Land art
Street art
Calligraphy
Textile
Pottery, ceramics
…and more

8. Category, genre list ②
-Various projects we have supported since 1993-
Philosophy
Zen
Bonsai
Martial arts
…and more
Performing Art
Theatre
Folk dance
Hip-hop dance
Contemporary dance
Butoh
Ballet
Double Dutch
Puppets
…and more
Music
Hip hop, DJ, VJ
Classical music, orchestra
Choir
Noise music
Jazz
Contemporary music
Folk music
Rock music
Electronics
Traditional music
Dance music
…and more
Literature and Language
Literature festival
Nobel
short story
Haiku
Poetry
Language study
Translation
…and more
Japanese Traditional = New Culture in Europe
Shogi, Igo - board game
Noh, Kyogen theatre
Shogi, Igo - board game
Bunraku puppet
Kabuki
Ikebana-flower arrangement
Sado-tea ceremony
Bonsai
…and more
Gastronomy
Food festival
Culnary art
…and more
Martial arts
Kendo
Aikido
Kyudo
Yabusame
…and more

9. Architecture
Installation by Atelier Bow-wow

10. Architecture
Installation by Tetsuo Kondo

11. Architecture
Installation by Toyoo Ito

12. Textile Exhibition
by Hiroko Watanabe

13. Volunteering
Sibiu International Theatre Festival

14. Academic seminar, lecture in Valletta

15. People to People - PechaKucha

16. Music - The Quasars Ensemble
Composer Toshio Hosokawa

17. KSO4KSO4
Music – Kyoto Symphony Orchestra

18. Photography Project – European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today

19. Photography Exhibition in Guimaraes, Spain

20. Choirs Joint concert

21. Choirs Joint concert

22. International Youth Concert Program
Collaboration with José Carreras

23. Choirs Joint concert

24. Choir member’s Homestay Experience

25. Youth Culture - DJ Live

26. Youth Culture- Ground riddim

27. Youth Culture- Double Dutch

28. Manga workshop

29. Cinema Festival

30. Fine Art – Yayoi Kusama

31. Fine Art – Motoi Yamamoto

32. Fine Art- Rika Oya

33. Fine Art – Tsuyoshi Ozawa

34. Fine Art – Chiharu Shiota

35. Media Art
Ars Electronica in Linz

36. Media Art
Ars Electronica in Linz
Android by Dr.Ishiguro

37. Robot Project
Murata Boy

38. Artist in Residence in Pilsen

39. Light Festival

40. Poetry Festival

41. Bonsai as a philosophy of life
Bonsai artist Kęstutis Ptakauskas

42. Bonsai workshop
By bonsai master Masashi Hirao

43. Aikido

44. Kendo

45. Performing arts - Kyogen Theatre

46. Performing arts - The Japanese-Polish Noh production
“Chinkon/Repose of Souls” dedicated to the victims of Auschwitz and Tohoku
Witten by Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska, former ambassador to Japan

47. Performing Arts
Contemporary dance –Hiroaki Umeda

48. Performing Arts
Contemporary dance
Kaori Ito
Dancer based in Europe

49. Performing Arts
Butoh – Ko Murobushi

50. Performing Arts
Tokyo Ballet

51. Performing Art - Yamato

52. Theatre Company Chiten – Coriolanus by W. Shakespeare
Globe Theatre, UK

53. Performing Arts
SCOT Suzuki Company of Toga

54. Performing Art- Yamanote Jijosya

55. Performing Arts
Bunraku-Puppet

56. Haiku, Poetry
Photo: Haiku poet Mr.Lars Vargo
former Swedish ambassador to Japan

57. Gastronomy Project

58. Shogi – board game

59. EU-Japan Fest Program Support Scheme
Pre-ECoC
• Preparation phase support
-Research Travel grant
-Assist in networking in Japan & other cities
• Support annual project related to future ECoC
-Small financial support for a part of the program cost
ECoC Year
• Support a part of project cost
-Financial support for a part of the program cost (Production)
through European Capital of Culture
Post-ECoC
• Support ECoC legacy projects
-Small financial support for a part of the program cost
-Assist in expanding networking in Japan,
past & coming ECoC cities

60. Research Travel
ECoC ⇔Japan
-Networking
-Presentation
-Get direct contact
-Develop idea & program
together
-Establish strong partnership
-Apply and get multiple
funding source together
both in EU and JP
-Long lasting relationship
-Sustainable project

61. Support program by EU-Japan Fest
for any program in ECOC
We support….
- Artists from Japan (Any nationality)
- Japanese artists from Europe and other continents
☆Application should be submitted through ECOC.
Japanese
Artists
Artists from JP
Any Nationality

62. Support program by EU-Japan Fest
for any program in ECOC
1. We do not get involved in making the program contents,
curation or bargaining.
2. We respect ECoCs’ initiative and decision and assist them
in realising the idea.

63. ------------------Project Funding------------------
----------------Program Development----------------
ECoC
&
local
organizers
Japanese
artists
① European Capital of Culture and local project organizer
Funding in Europe
Governmental subsidy
Regional subsidy
Local subsidy, etc
Crowd-funding
② Artists from Japan
Funding in Japan
Public Grants
-Japan Foundation
-Cultural Agency, etc
Private Grants
Crowd-funding
③ EU-Japan Fest
-Fundraise from private
companies in Japan
-Support Japanese artist’s
crowdfunding promotion

64. Program Category ECoC
Local
Organizer
JP Artists
EU-Japan
fest
Label
-Official program of ECoC
- Organized, co-organized or supported
by ECoC or local partners
- Has financial support from ECoC
● ● ● ●
Non-Label
-Non official programs of ECoC
-Has a recommendation from ECoC
-Has long-term effect
-Organized by local cultural operators
● ● ●
Project Category for European Capitals of Culture
*In the year of European Capital of Culture
●Funding effort

65. Examples of crowdfunding in
Europe (organizers)
and
Japan (participant artists)
*Crowdfunding campaign will be promoted through EU-Japan Fest social network.

66. FACT(Liverpool2008) : crowdfunding
”We are crowdfunding for the final 10% of critically acclaimed visual
artist and electronic composer Ryoichi Kurokawa’s exhibition taking
place at FACT in Spring 2016. We need you to help us realise this artist’s
spectacular vision, which will transport audiences into space through
beautifully visual and sonic environments.”
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/factliverpool/world-premiere-of-ryoichi-
kurokawas-new-commission/description

67. Artist’s crowdfunding in Japan
To attend art project in Wroclaw2016
Mitsutoshi Ban, artist invited by International Festival of Contemporary Drawing in Wroclaw2016
Target: 300,000 Yen, Funded 466,000Yen (4,101 EUR)
https://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/4075