Upcoming Events
06/08/2024Tanabata Star Festival at St John's Wood Library
Join The Japan Society at St Johns Wood Library for an afternoon celebration of the Tanabata Star Festival with origami, crafts and storytelling! The Tanabata Story is presented using kamishibai, a traditional form of illustrated storytelling from Japan.
15/08/2024Art Without Heroes: Mingei – Special Private Tour (2.00pm)
The Japan Society and Circle of Japanese Art London are pleased to invite members and friends to a special private tour of Art Without Heroes: Mingei at the William Morris Gallery. For this special tour, we are delighted to welcome curator Róisín Inglesby to guide us through the exhibition.
15/08/2024Art Without Heroes: Mingei – Special Private Tour (6.30pm)
The Japan Society and Circle of Japanese Art London are pleased to invite members and friends to a special private tour of Art Without Heroes: Mingei at the William Morris Gallery. For this special tour, we are delighted to welcome curator Róisín Inglesby to guide us through the exhibition.
09/09/2024Creating the Mingei Film Archive Project: Craft, History and Preservation
The Mingei Film Archive is an ongoing project to locate, restore and preserve films on the history of craftsmanship in Japan and beyond. For this lecture, filmmaker and potter Marty Gross will share with us how the Mingei Film Archive was created and developed showing films by Bernard Leach and other craftpeople in Japan.
10/09/2024ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Book Club: Solo Dance by Li Kotomi
In Tokyo, twenty-seven-year-old Cho Norieconceals her unconventional life amid corporate routines. While colleagues fret over the economy, marriage, and family, she guards her sexuality and a past violent upheaval.