Tokyo Culture Creation Project. Festival

With participation and artistic creativity of the highest quality as features of the event, “Music Weeks in TOKYO” aspires to bring new energy to the music, art and culture of TOKYO, and spread energy for the arts throughout Japan and the world. The key theme of this music festival is “voice.”

“Tokyo Traditional Arts Program” is for everybody. Two new events have been added to this Program this year: “Traditional Performing Arts for Kids” provides children with the opportunity to learn traditional performing arts from first-class performers for seven months, and show the result of their efforts on the big stage; and “Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony” is designed to provide an opportunity for the citizens of Tokyo as well as foreigners and tourists visiting the Tokyo area to enjoy Japanese culture and traditional tea culture.

“Festival/Tokyo” is an International Festival of Performing Arts to be held in various cultural locations around Ikebukuro including the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space. Through international coproduction, the leading-edge creation is introduced to Japan in real time, and the works of the artists who attract people’s attention domestically are produced and presented to the world. The festival will also expand the outreach projects, including the programs in which the citizens can actively participate.