News category: Grants

8 February 2024

'On an Endless Road' - a programme of music by and about trailblazing Japanese women

In the satsuma biwa tradition, performers recite tales of historical battles and warriors whilst accompanying themselves on the instrument. When studying the biwa, Francesca Le Lohé began thinking of other kinds of ‘warriors’ and felt the biwa to be the perfect vehicle to engage new audiences with historical trailblazing women. This work celebrates the life of writer and feminist anarchist Itō Noe, killed by Japanese state forces when she was just 28. 

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14 July 2023

Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from a Daido Moriyama retrospective at the Photographers’ Gallery, to research into promoting renewable CO2-free hydrogen and ammonia technologies as future green fuels.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support a total of 35 UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: March 2023. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant will unite Northern Ireland’s taiko drumming with Japan’s world-famous KODO group by supporting Foyle Obon festival directors Fiona and Katsu

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20 June 2023

Carving the Picture Book of Everything with David Bull

In 2022, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Small Grant to the British Museum to support travel to Tokyo by Dr Capucine Korenberg, a senior scientist based at the Scientific Research Department at The British Museum. She travelled to Tokyo to interview and film woodblock printmakers, David Bull and Motoharu Asaka, as they embarked on the

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9 January 2023

Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from musical performances and workshops with shamisen virtuoso Hidejiro Honjoh, to scientific research into the emergence of life.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: September 2022. Professor Siân Bowen, from Arts University Bournemouth, has received a grant to travel to Japan as part of an interdisciplinary team to explore the integral relationships between plants and

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7 September 2022

Oki performing in the UK from 11 November 2022

Oki will be performing at Glad Cafe in Glasgow on 11 November, at the White Hotel in Salford on 12 November and at Cafe Oto in London on 14 November.   The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting travel to the UK by Ainu artist Oki on a debut UK tour with Rumiko

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