News category: Grants

Wolverhampton Literature Festival: Kazuo Ishiguro, Perspectives from Japan

This event invites critics from Japan to give their culturally specific perspective on one of the finest and most loved writers of or time: Kazuo Ishiguro.  Which Japanese literature, cinema and the culture have had a formative impact on Ishiguro’s authorship?  How Japanese is Ishiguro anyway? Whilst Motoko Sugano will show war paintings that informed Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World, other

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Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from a Japanese festival on the Orkney Islands to scientific research on predatory bacteria and antibiotics

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (September 2019 round).

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炎 Honō (Japanese for Flame) has evolved from Tricky Hat artistic team’s research trips to Japan in 2017 and 2018

Q&A with HONŌ Performers –  In April 2020, a small group of Flames will collaborate with a group of older people based in Sendai, Japan to create a multi-media performance event. Tricky Hat Productions caught up with Tom, Jess and Pene, who are taking part in  the HONŌ performance, and chatted about how they became

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Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from scientific research inspired by trembling leaves to  intergenerational dementia care

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round.

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Emily - an English Language Noh play; 4-6 September 2019

“Emily” will be performed at Tara Arts Theatre (Earlsfield, London): 4 to 6 September. For three nights only, professional Noh actors and musicians from Japan will offer a cross-cultural take on one of the most significant events in women’s political history. In 1913, Emily Wilding Davison ran onto the racetrack at the Epsom Derby in support of votes for women. She was struck down by the King’s horse and died four days later. But what happened to the jockey that killed her?

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Learn from world-changing thinkers and innovators in the Renewable Energy and Vacuum Insulation community

​This multidisciplinary forum at London Southbank University on Wednesday 28 August (10 to 5) aims to share expertise and present state-of-the-art research work in the form of presentations touching on themes such as Vacuum Physics, Building Integrated Renewable Energy, Solar Thermal Vacuum Engineering, Smart Windows, Vacuum Insulation, Building Retrofitting Technologies, Solar Collectors, Solar Heating and Cooling Technologies, Solar Architecture and Building Integration and Intelligent Energy Systems for NZEBs.

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"Ainu" Othello: Shakespeare's masterpiece given a Japanese revival, 7 to 10 August 2019

Free tickets for teenagers!
There will be ten free tickets available for each performance for teenagers and their accompanying parents.
People hoping to get the free tickets should e-mail shimizu.takeshi@gmail.com – first come first served.

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THE鍵KEY makes its London debut at two festivals in June and August 2019

THE鍵KEY: Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Francesca Le Lohé’s site-specific, dramatic musical work, inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki’s novelThe Key (1956) featured in Powell Tuck Associates’ event on 27 June 2019 as part of the London Festival of Architecture, and made its UK debut as part of the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in August 2019.

THE鍵KEY received its world premiere to great acclaim at Nakacho House, Tokyo in May 2018, supported by The Mutomai Fund and Kickstarter Donators and went on to have a longer run of performances at Hirakushi Denchu House and Atelier, 19 to 26 May 2019, supported by Arts Council Tokyo and the Japan Arts Council.

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Of Love and Law - upcoming screenings in London, Manchester and Sheffield

An intimate portrait of the loving relationship between lawyers Kazu and Fumi follows their journey fighting for the rights of the marginalised and the risk-takers in ultra-homogenous Japan, while also building a family of their own. DocHouse previews ‘Of Love and Law’ alongside a director Q&A on Sunday 24 February: http://bit.ly/OfLoveLawQA Screenings: Curzon Soho (London):

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Japan Now

Japan Now is the chance to explore contemporary writing and culture from Japan.  With a new wave of Japanese fiction hitting UK bookshelves, meet the writers alongside translators and contemporary artists at this annual event, exploring gender, history, society and everything in between. It will be held from 18th-25th February.

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