16 July 2024
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting this year’s UCL-Japan Youth Challenge, a prestigious summer school programme for pre-university students from both the UK and Japan. Students will attend a series of university-style lectures on a wide range of subjects by academics from leading UK universities including UCL (University College London), and engage
Read on15 July 2024
Huge congratulations to Daiwa Scholarships alum Gareth Mattey who has been awarded a theatre translator mentorship by Foreign Affairs. Gareth will be translating a Japanese play to be performed in London next year! Throughout the programme, Gareth and cohort will receive mentoring and take part in workshops to nurture their knowledge and skills for theatre
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Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s oil painting ‘Alain at Kew’ is now on display at the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in central London. 50 paintings were chosen from 1,647 entries from 62 countries. The exhibition is free to visit and on until 27 October 2024, after which
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We are delighted to be supporting Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking with a Small Grant. The exhibition is on at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London from 19 June until 3 November 2024.
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Artist and author and Daiwa Scholarships alumnus Edmund de Waal will chair the 2024 Booker Prize judging panel. He is joined by award-winning novelist Sara Collins; Fiction Editor of the Guardian, Justine Jordan; world-renowned writer and professor Yiyun Li; and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney. They will be looking for the best works of
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Japan-Britain Contemporary Theatre Exchange June 2024 14-29 June 2024 In this second edition of the Japan-Britain Contemporary Theatre Exchange, the theme of encounters in theatre will be considered. What happens when we encounter the other in theatre? What are the linguistic and political implications? Just like when we cross borders, misunderstandings, misinterpretations, mistranslations and mis-deliveries
Read on7 May 2024
From 9 to 18 May, Kintsugi will be on display at The Mall Galleries London. Carl is an invited guest artist at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition.
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Very many congratulations to Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and artist, Carl Randall. Carl has been selected for the National Portrait Gallery’s new competition, the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award. 50 paintings were chosen from 1,647 entries from 62 countries, exhibiting @NPGLondon11 July – 27 October (followed by UK tour). https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2024/hsf-portrait-award
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Via the link below you can listen to Okinawan composer Kikuko Kanai’s ‘Capriccio Okinawa’, a work from one of the first Japanese women to compose in a western style, and its first performance in the UK. She transcribed traditional Okinawan melodies to use in the work, which also features the instrument at the heart of
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In 2022 we awarded a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant to enable travel to Japan by the artist Jason Wilsher-Mills. As part of a collaboration with Keio Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) and supported by Arts Council England and Shape Arts, Jason delivered an artist residency and workshops for local disability groups in spring 2023.
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