Upcoming Events

Roll up your sleeves for a 90-minute, hands-on sushi adventure! Learn to craft four delicious types of authentic sushi in a fun, relaxed setting, perfect for beginners and food lovers alike. No experience needed—just bring your appetite and creativity!

Roll up your sleeves for a 90-minute, hands-on sushi making adventure! Learn to craft four delicious types of authentic sushi in a fun, relaxed setting, perfect for beginners and food lovers alike. No experience needed—just bring your appetite and creativity!

Roll up your sleeves for a 2-hour, hands-on sushi adventure! Learn to craft four delicious types of authentic sushi in a fun, relaxed setting, perfect for beginners and food lovers alike. No experience needed—just bring your appetite and creativity! Includes a free glass of prosecco.

Japan Fest Buxton returns on Sunday 28 September 2025 at Pavilion Gardens! Enjoy taiko drumming, shamisen, J-pop, a Vocaloid DJ, kimono dressing, tea and sake tasting, shogi, origami, fox mask painting, cosplay, and an Akihabara-style Maid Café in this family-friendly celebration.

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this exhibition presents a rare and powerful encounter through original photographs, personal testimonies, military artefacts, and poignant artworks created by survivors.

Roll up your sleeves for a 90-minute, hands-on sushi adventure! Learn to craft four delicious types of authentic sushi in a fun, relaxed setting, perfect for beginners and food lovers alike. No experience needed—just bring your appetite and creativity!

The line-up for this year’s Kotatsu Animation Festival will give viewers the opportunity to see some of the iconic films that have fuelled anime’s growing popularity, alongside bold new titles making waves internationally. 27-28 September at Chapter, Cardiff / 11 October at TAPE Community Music and Film, Old Colwyn / 24-26 October at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

Don’t miss the theatrical event of 2025 as the award-winning My Neighbour Totoro comes to London’s West End. Following two rapturously received, sell-out runs, discover this ground-breaking “triumph” (Telegraph) at the Gillian Lynne Theatre from 8 March 2025.

This exhibition celebrates of the art of Paul Furneaux, reknowned master of the contemporary use of Japanese woodblock printing, mokuhanga. Abstract prints and sculptures, inspired by the landscapes of the north (Scotland, Norway) and east (Japan), are on display in historic Drum Castle.

This Autumn, Ushaw is host to the first showing of Kwaidan: Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn in the United Kingdom, a captivating touring exhibition of gothic Japanese fairytales inspired by the writing of Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan book of Japanese ghost stories.