Upcoming Events
19/10/2024 - 16/02/2025Exhibition – Rinko Kawauchi: At the edge of the everyday world
Arnolfini in Bristol presents esteemed Japanese photographer Rinko Kawaguchi’s first major UK exhibition since 2006. The exhibition features photography spanning across her twenty-year-plus career, utilising even the smallest aspects of everyday life as a vessel by which to capture poetic reflections on themes of care, identity, sustainability, humanity, and nature.
22/02/2025 - 01/03/2025Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey in Glasgow
Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey is a new international theatre work based on short stories by Haruki Murakami. Featuring performers from Scotland and Japan, human and puppet monkeys, lurking shadows, stunning sound, and a distinctive visual language, the play will draw you into the inimitable, dream-like domain of one of the world’s best-loved living authors. Performed in English and Japanese at Tramway in Glasgow, with full dialogue captioning built into the stage design.
06/03/2025 - 08/03/2025Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey in Dundee
Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey is a new international theatre work based on short stories by Haruki Murakami. Featuring performers from Scotland and Japan, human and puppet monkeys, lurking shadows, stunning sound, and a distinctive visual language, the play will draw you into the inimitable, dream-like domain of one of the world’s best-loved living authors. Performed in English and Japanese at Dundee Rep in Dundee, with full dialogue captioning built into the stage design.
06/11/2024 - 23/03/2025Zodiac Netsuke: Animals of the Japanese Zodiac in Miniature
Dive into the world of Japanese netsuke in the shape of the twelve zodiac animals. Tiny sculptures carved from materials such as wood, ivory and metal, netsuke were used by men during the Edo period (1615–1868), as toggles to secure personal items – money pouches, compartmented boxes (inrō), and writing and smoking accessories.
23/03/2025Cherry Blossom 2025
One hour to listen, reflect and reconnect, away from the busyness of everyday life: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group present their highly anticipated fourth annual free outdoor Cherry Blossom Concert, beneath the blossoming boughs in Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, central Birmingham. Grab a drink from one of Brindleyplace's local cafes, and feel free to drop in and out as you please!
01/04/2024 - 31/03/2025City Life and Salon Culture in Kyoto and Osaka, 1770–1900
From the late 18th century into the beginning of the modern era, artistic creation and scholarship blossomed in two important and neighbouring Japanese cities: Kyoto and Osaka. This display at the British Museum is one of the results of a three-year collaborative international research project exploring salon culture in these two Japanese cities.
07/02/2025 - 31/03/2025The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
The UK’s biggest festival of Japanese cinema is back visiting 32 cities and 33 cinemas nationwide. From recently released contemporary films to classics and anime, Japanese films are curated under a carefully chosen theme to highlight trends in Japanese cinema and showcase the versatility and uniqueness displayed by its filmmakers.
31/03/2025 - 12/04/2025Six Months of Dreaming - The Cory / Kajikawa Collection
In Charlotte Cory's latest novel, Six Months of Dreaming, she imagines the life story of the unknown artist Yutaka Kajikawa. The exhibition of the same title includes silk scarves & dresses, bespoke wallpapers, stationery, velvet cushions, painted teddy bears (all proudly sporting Kajikawa neckties) and much more.
09/01/2025 - 03/05/2025Kyoto
Welcome to the Kyoto Conference Centre, 11 December 1997. The nations of the world are in deadlock and 11 hours have passed since the UN’s landmark climate conference should have ended. Time is running out and agreement feels a world away. The greatest obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman… Kyoto, featuring Togo Igawa, is a new political thriller brought to you by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Good Chance.
21/01/2025 - 27/07/2025Mingei Pottery - Jill Fanshawe Kato
Visit the display of Mingei pottery by potter and artist Jill Fanshawe Kato at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter. Jill visited Japan in the 1970s and became enchanted by the ceramics that she saw in Japanese restaurants and homes. During that time, she visited many rural villages and towns, met local artists that were making Mingei pottery, and purchased many of the items in her collection.