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Arts & Culture Integration

Arts and Culture are essential for building community. Build a better understanding and greater awareness for the impact of arts & culture integration into community development and planning. Revitalize the area with arts & culture, we propose the local community the strategies and the programs for utilizing local public facilities including the closed schools. Conducting workshops, implementing artist in residence programs, utilization of public facilities, etc. In order to ensure that our cultural levels are at the forefront of the world in the future, we will look at the problems occurring in front of us together with the local community, and suggest potential solutions through art and cultural activities.

At present, there are nearly 7,000 closed schools in Japan, and the number of closed schools is increasing at the rate of 500 every year. If these negatives (closing schools and unoccupied houses) are regarded as resources of art culture and can be effectively utilized, the future of Japan will be brighter and richer. It is all about achieving a cultural nation, and we support that policy.

−　Kuniko Kato

Make Art More Accessible

E.g. – Conduct workshops for everyone, from children to adults, parents, seniors and people with disabilities. Get closer to real art! There are so many things for the community to integrate arts & culture into their development and planning with visible attention and respects to the local needs, customs and history. Arts can be critical catalysts in creating development solutions that incorporate social, economic, and regional elements of the communities.

Arts Based Community

Transform the area into an “arts based community” using facilities as art hubs by utilizing public facilities and closed schools. Create a cluster of art and culture! The support for arts based community development on both the national and regional levels is essentially important as it excels the role of artists and the importance of the arts for building sustainable community and its culture.

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Public Venue

We propose a program tailored to the region, using art and culture as a catalyst. Promote regional revitalization by utilizing it in a wide range of genres such as concerts, dances, plays, visual art, audio listening, recording, and video shooting.

Creation Base

Transform areas and facilities into art villages as a base for creative artists in Japan and the world.

Closed School Utilization

Regenerate school buildings cherished by the community with the power of art. This includes historic buildings, registered cultural properties, closed factory facilities and others.

Workshop

Conduct various workshops for children, adults, parents and children, seniors and people with disabilities. Ex.) Log Drum Workshop, “Play and Play” Marimba Workshop for Elderly People, Percussion Instrument Workshop for Parents and Children.

A I R

Support domestic and international artists through the “Artist in Residence” program. Provide art creation opportunities and places on a project basis and promote artistic town planning.

Technical CONSULTING

Provide stage technical consulting and technical guidance for halls and theaters. Japan’s leading theater technicians transform local public facilities into professional performing venues.

Intl. Exchange

Function as a hub of active international exchange project. Promote the formation of culture tourism bases.

Audio Gallery

A gathering to listen to high quality music with high-end audio while enjoying the scenery. Combination with video and audio concerts will be held regularly for local community.

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FESTIVAL

Planning International performing arts festival, a festival where various artists of various genres come and go. Artistic excitement of the whole area with the improvement of the local cultural status.

Workshop

inc. percussion days regularly presents “percussion workshop for everyone” as a part of inc. programs. The workshop program is open to all children, parents and children, seniors and people with disabilities. Today’s active professional artists now carry out creative workshops according to the type of audience and its theme.

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LATEST WORK

Pilgrim installation at Mottisfont

This new art installation taps into the experience of the pilgrim in its widest sense – be it as an outsider, observer or wanderer. As part of the preparation for Pilgrim Hywel made two visits to Izumo in north-west Japan site of the largest Shinto shrine in Japan, also a place of pilgrimage. Pilgrim reflects on this and other journeys Hywel has made.

The principal element of the work is written for Japanese virtuoso percussionist Kuniko Kato and English bass-baritone Laurence Williams. This part of the piece run on a loop, broadcast from speakers embedded in four hemlock tree trunks sited within the Beech Circle.

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Based on Jun Okada’s fantasy novel “Two Minutes Adventure”, Kuniko Kato is in charge of the music director of the work commissioned by KAAT’s (Kanagawa Arts Theater) Kids Program 2019, which is premiered on August 17-25, 2019.

inc. percussion days 2020 – Xenakis et Le Japon in Tokyo has been selected for the TokyoTokyoFestival project. Towards 2020 multiple sessions and rehearsals will accelerate. Under the title of “Xenakis and Japan”, reexamined the relationship between the great composer of 20th century, Iannis Xenakis and Japan, exhibited materials of CIX, demonstrated UPIC, and hosted symposiums and lectures from inside and outside the country. Performing the main event is PLEIADES with 18 players. To that end, Inc. Percussion Days has been conducting over 20 Pleiades study sessions since 2016, while fostering next-generation players and promoting the momentum of Tokyo in summer 2020.