United Nations 75 Year Celebration
Music Festival for SDGs 2020
Co-hosted by Music for SDGs Coalition and Glocha
Online broadcast from Japan, Europe, Africa and New Yorkon 26 September 2020 (6am - 11pm EDT)

to celebrate the United Nations’ 75th Anniversary

Mack Okubo
Executive Producer(Project Director, Music for SDGs & GloCha Associate)A side event of UN General Assembly 2020
United Nations 75 Year Celebration Music Festival for SDGs 2020
26 September 2020, Online Broadcast from Japan, Europe, Africa and New YorkThis event aims to enhance a public awareness on selected SDG topics through a talk and music performance. The audience
will enjoy 17 hour online event, starting from opening in Japan, followed by various cities in Europe, Africa and concluding
with a grand finale in New York, in a series of entertainment shows and educational opportunities. Enjoy the shows and bepart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.

①Building the society for all children to look forward to tomorrow (SDG1,2,3,4)②Promoting diversity and inclusion (SDG10, 17)③Supporting empowerment of women and world peace (SDG5, 16)④Protecting environment and preserving beautiful earth (SDG6,7,12-15)⑤Creating disaster-resilient community (SDG11)
This event is created by Music for SDGs Coalition, represented by Mack Okubo(project director), Kippei (singer song writer/music producer) and Flower Harmony(music unit and event producer) with support of Social-Japan, an incorporated
association for a purpose of supporting social action programs.
The event is co-organized by Glocha and IAAI as part of #ActionNow initiative,
which is supported by UNESCO and MOST. We intend to report on this event to theUnited Nations, APEC as well as Japanese Government.
We are seeking other collaboration partners, sponsors, participating artists andspeakers, who support SDGs and share our objectives.

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A side event of UN General Assembly 20203

United Nations 75 Year Celebration
Music Festival for SDGs 2020
17 Hours Non-Stop in a series of entertainment shows and educational opportunities
Co-hosted by Music for SDGs Coalition and Glocha
Online broadcast from around the globe on 26 September 2020 (6am - 11pm EDT )to celebrate the United Nations’ 75th Anniversary and enhance awareness on SDGs
We are seeking participating artists andspeakers, collaboration partners, and sponsors,
who support SDGs and share our objectives.

Europe, Africa, etc.

Grand Finale
In New York

Opening
In Japan

11pm (EDT)

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Mack （Makoto Okubo） (Project Director)
Mack is a multilingual and globally well-known policy advisor, traveling around the world. Formerly he worked for aninternational organization in Switzerland. Among other responsibilities, he is now serving as Sherpa of APFF ESG
Investment Working Group and Co-Sherpa of APFF Sustainable Finance Development Network in APEC, and is actively
promoting SDGs in collaboration with United Nations, OECD, and APEC. He is also known as multi-talented
entertainer. He performs as a singer, dancer, comedian and mimicry artist in various events. He has launched Music for
SDGs Project to promote United Nations’ SDGs through music and produces entertainment events.

Flower Harmony (Yurikago Voice Yukiko Yamashita and music producer
Takeda P）
Flower=Every flower is wonderful, and every human being is important. With the theme of "A world where everyone
can shine", they connect Japan and the world, and play harmony and love at entertainment events, shrines and temples
across the country as a dedication performance. They also host "Japanese Tradition Expo," conveying Japanesetraditional culture. They incorporate activities for the Earth and for the universe into his business and artistic activities.

Kippei（Kippei Miyahara) (Singer/songwriter, music producer & MC,community engagement supporter）
Born in Wakayama, and now based in Kashima City. Apart from his main business, he has been working on revitalizing
the community and fostering culture through his musical activities, and always aspires to give live performances with asense of unity and customer participation with the keyword "enjoy". In addition to songs for himself, he has produced
songs for the J1 Kashima Antlers soccer team, local artists and idols, boys and girls choir, and Yosakoi groups. He
performed in NY at Off-Broadway in 2018 and Carnegie Hall in 2019.

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Aya Takeuchi (Assistant Director, Music for SDGs ＆ Junior Consultant, UN Women)
Born in Nagoya. Aya received a B.A. in Cross-Cultural Studies with a concentration in Sociolinguistics at
Sugiyama Jogakuen University. She is a recent graduate from New York University, Center for Global Affairs with
M.S. in Global Affairs, specializing in Global Gender Studies. She is passionate about Gender Equality (SDG5).
Her current focuses are on women’s right in the workplace including sexual harassment, maternity leave andleadership and also reproductive rights as well as sexual violence against women and girls’ education indeveloping countries. Aya has interned for Japan Society and Catalyst, an NIP, GloCha, UN Women and iscurrently working as a junior consultant at UN Women.

Ai Yamashita (Assistant Director, Music Advisor＆ Pianist/Keyboardist/composer)
Ai Yamashita from Japan, a Boston-based keyboardist,
songwriter and almuni of Berklee Collge of Music 17’. Her
mission statement is “Being bridge between Japan and Worldthrough music” and she has been contributing for cultural
exchange and music diversity in US with her J- Pop band “Ai’s
Sakura Band”. Currently, she is working on “Min na Tomodachi We are all friends” project for corroborating Youtube video.
(Coming soon).

Ai Yamashita Website
https://www.aiyamashita.com/
Ai’s Sakura Band
https://youtu.be/s7bhbzeYGa8“Minna Tomodachi Project”(In Japanese)
https://youtu.be/U5_V449pLv8

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Social-Japan
Music for SDGs Project is organized in collaboration with Social-Japan (led by Yorihira Monden), a generalincorporated association established to support social contribution activities. With an initiative of Yorihira
Monden, a project team has been formed to support the planning, public relations and management of the
project, produce major events to promote SDGs, and help monitor the project's activities to ensure they arein line with its ultimate goals. https://social-japan.watch/

GloCha/IAAI, our global partner #ACTION NOW
GloCha (Secretary General Miroslav Polzer） is a multi-stakeholder partnership,
formed as 501c3, for individuals, institutions and UN agencies to collaborate
together to act on global challenges. GloCha creates opportunities for youth, social
entrepreneurs and local communities to collaborate for a safe climate and justsociety. GloCha initiates events, and convenes conferences in support of the SDGs
leveraging collaborations and technologies like apps and block chain to improveoutcomes. Its three pillars are culture, technology, and organizational innovation.
GloCha cultivates improved solutions to global challenges as a UN accredited NGO
partner (ECOSOC and UNFCCC) with sister organization, IAAI (International
Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges).
http://www.glocha.info

About our Ambassador and Government Liaison Protocol
Gloria Starr Kins
(Editor-in-Chief and Publisher,
Society & Diplomatic Review)

Gloria is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Society& Diplomatic Review (SDR), a United Nations
accredited publication that serves as a directoryof Ambassadors, UN Secretariat, and theConsular Corps. SDR covers diplomatic eventsand is the premier journal covering the UN.
Gloria has been a long-time society anddiplomatic editor of Irish Connections magazine
and Irish Examiner newspaper. Before that, she
worked alongside Wyatt Cooper as an editor for
the Status Diplomat and headed the New York
office of Curtis Publishing encompassing Sat
Evening Post, Holiday magazine, and Status
magazine.

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She is a veteran UN Correspondent, society and diplomatic
editor of many newspapers, and a correspondent for the
Jewish Post newspaper. She represented WOR Radio andTelevision as head of their United Nations Operations, and wasan Associate Producer of NBC’s “Open Mind.” Gloria is ViceChair of the Center for Global Action for Sustainable
Development (CGASD) and was a founding member of
UNICEF’s Manhattan chapter, the Islamic Council of Europe,and the Islamic Defense League in London.
In addition, she also serves as a Government Liaison on the Board of Directors for
the OCCAM Infopoverty World Conference, Oklahoma University liaison, andvarious other organizations and Chambers of Commerce. Recently, Gloria wasmade the head of the North American representative office of Association de la
Plume pour la culture et le development, a Chad-based foundation. She is also
active on the Board of advisers of The Green Earth Enterprises, LLC, a company
that uses aquaponics and hydroponics to solve the world’s food and water
insecurities in addition to IAAI GloCha board of advisers. The Hope Foundation as
well as the Halte Ebola Foundation made Gloria a member of their Board of
Directors. As of recently, Ms. Kins became the Co-Chairman of World Peaceever
TV, an ECOSOC accredited United Nations Foundation. She is also the Vice
President of Ai-Blockchain, a company that develops blockchain technology.

UN75 Celebration Music Festival for SDGs 2020 Schedule(EDT)

Grand Opening■ 6:00am Opening by Music for SDGs Coalition(Mack/Flower Harmony/Kippei)■ 6:30 am Tokyo Night Market ※Ninja Contest■ 7:00 am Junya Hirota & IKEBANA ※Flower, Fashion and Art■ 7:30 am Mare Kasuga ※earth-friendly entertainer■ 8:00 am Utahime Choir Hibiki ※nature × world peace■ 8:30 am Women Orchestra ＆ Seika ※ｗomen
empowerment × education■ 9:00 am Toshihiko Nakazawa ※dance × dream■ 9:30 am Nihonshu Joshi ※Japanese Sake × Music■ 10:00 am Takahisa Taniguchi ※Save the earth■ 10:30 am Japan-Israel-Palestine Student
Conference ※Friendship beyond borders for peace■ 11:00 am Yuzu Natsumi ※Shamisen to the world■ 11:30 am Meghan Picerno ※Empowerment of women■ 0:00 pm Ayumi Ueda＆Women of the World ※peace■ 0:30 pm Yagull – Kana & Sacha Markovic ※Music therapy■ 1:00 pm Rino＆Heiwa Peace Band ※peace, welfare,care & human rights■ 1:30 pm Gaudier Abadie (France) ＆Elizaveta
Kozlova (Russia) ※Chagall & Music & SDGs

■ 2:00 pm The Clermont Choir (South Africa）※SDGs & music■ 2:30 pm Plenary GloCha, Ambassador, Sponsors, etc.

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Grand Finale■ 3:00 pm Music for Climate Justice ※Global initiatives topromote Climate actions■ 3:30 pm Shihori ※Perfect Imperfection■ 4:00 pm Jazz4SDGs■ 4:30 pm Ayako※Singing anime in jazz

※Jazz for hope, love and peace■ 5:00 pm Kippei＆Ooko ”７th Avenue” & video clips■ 5:30 pm Aya＆Nono

Kalimba＆Taolyre■ 6:30 pm Flower Harmony※Extending love, dream and SDGs

■ 7:00 pm Hiromi Jonishi Ndiritu ※Waste issue in Africa■ 7:30 pm Saki Kitahigashi ※fighting against sickness andstarting eco-business■ 8:00 pm Shiho Noma※Collaboration of music and calligraphy■ 8:30 pm Ai Yamashita※Bridging Japan and World through music■ 9:00 pm FaiRy※Kids with and without handicap dancing together■ 9:30 pm Africa Kids Summit & Social-Japan ※Te Wo Arao
■ 10:00 pm Kyomachi Odorikotai＆Miss Earth USA Eco 2019※making kimono for everyone■ 10:30 pm Closing Music for SDGs Coalition

Collaboration with Tokyo Night Market
Music for SDGs will collaborate with Tokyo Night Market,
a project subsidized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government

9Tokyo Night Market (TOKYO YOICHI) (held by NIGHT MARKET JAPAN)
Modeled after night markets, most popular tourist attractions in Asia, Tokyo Night Market isJapan's first night market with a stylish and sophisticated Tokyo flavor for two nights. The visitors
enjoy a wide range of food and drink stalls, stages for live music and performances, and boothsfor exhibitions and product sales. The first event was held last September in Shibuya, which
attracted around 5,000 people. The 4th Tokyo Night Market was scheduled to feature traditional
performances from around the world, Japan's first Ninja Contest, and live streaming of a portionof it to the world while enjoying stalls selling take out from famous shops in Shibuya. However,
due to the new corona, the event was postponed and is now scheduled to take place at the endof March during the cherry blossom season. Music for SDGs will continue to collaborate with
Tokyo Night Market, and on the 26th, they will introduce the preliminary round of the Ninja
Contest and talk about their future plans.https://night-market-japan.com/

Hanako Morikawa (Project management and planning)
Graduated from Tokyo College of Music with a degree in voice. She played the role of Diana in "Anne of Green Gables" and Ruri in the musical"Himeyuri". While in school, she studied musicals in New York City for a year on a Tobitate Study Abroad Japan scholarship. While studying
abroad, she passed an audition and debuted in the off-Broadway musical "Humanity's Child". She regularly organizes and holds other solo
concerts and events, and won the second place in the Best Artist Division of BEAUTY JAPAN competition in Japan (Special Prize).

Anna Melody Harada (MC)
Born in the U.S. and raised in Kobe, and is a true Kansai native. After graduating from high school, she came to the United States and graduatedfrom Spokane Falls Community College. She is currently a senior at International Christian University. She is interested in linguistics, philosophy,
education, and many other academic disciplines. As a former Youth Theatre Japan scholarship student, she performed at Carnegie Hall in New
York City and gained experience as an MC at musicals and events in Japan in English. She is currently active in the fields of singing, dancing,modeling, and acting. She was cast in the music video for "24-25" from iri's 4th album "Sparkle".

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Sharing Japanese culture through art. Guard yourself
stylishly with a face shield. Smile and have fun💛
Junya Hirota (hairstylist)

IKEBANA (衣・化・花） (costumes・make-up・flower artists)

Junya established Hearts Inc. In
addition to salon work, hair and makeup, he delivers beauty services to awide range of people, including elderly
people, children in orphanages, andpeople with disabilities, and aims tohave everyone shining with a smile.
He organized Shonan Barrier-Free
Festival, and provided school
performances. In response to Covid19 outbreak, he has developed stylish
face shields that are hygienic and easy
to wear to let people receive beauty
services with peace of mind.

IKEBANA is a group of artists who use fashion, beauty and flower
elements to reconstruct the interpretation of "wabi sabi," a unique
Japanese culture, from a modern perspective. Just like traditional culture
and expressions have overcome the changes of the times and still
fascinate people, they see the present time, requiring measures against
corona infection, as "a time when a leap forward in culture andexpressions is needed" and are exploring new possibilities forexpressions. Last year they photographed their work many times, and at
the end of the year they held major ,exhibitions as a culmination.
The hair makeup and costume styling has been done in a dense
environment, but they demonstrate a new corona-era style ofexpressions while maintaining a social distance in this video production.

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Earth-friendly entertainer 🌎 Let's reduce waste andprotect our blue ocean (Mare)
Mare Kasuga (singer/musical actress/translator/interpreter/MC)
Mare Kasuga is a musical theater actor, emcee andtranslator based in Tokyo. Her motto is “Be Hope, Be
Mare!” She’s been studying abroad at Pace University in
NYC as a scholarship student of “Tobitate!” Her offBroadway debut was in 2018. She performed on a stageof Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert with Broadway stars.

https://maaare514.wixsite.com

She is also putting effort into environmental conservation activities in her
daily lives. She was appointed as a flower cyclist ambassador, who saves
discarded flowers since 2019. http://lossflower.com

On the 26th, she will share her thoughts and activities for environmental
protection and sing with the accompaniment of Sayaka Kaminami (pianist).

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Female singers with a variety of characteristics
singing about diversity, nature and peace.
Utahime Choir Hibiki (singer group)
The seven members of the Choir come from varied backgrounds. They all have successful
solo careers in their own right as singer-songwriters, jazz singers, pop singers, actresses,
etc. The women resonate to bring out the best in each other and create a diversity thatcharacterizes a new world view. On the 26th, some members of Hibiki will broadcast songs
about nature and world peace to the world.
Broadcast from Shinshu
Broadcast from Tokyo
Utahime Choir Hibiki
Yuko Hoshizono（composer/singer/pianist）

Hiroka Ashiki（singer）

Meguminote（singer of life/singer song writer）

Rina Iwami（Gemini）（actress/singer）

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Promoting empowerment of women and providing education
through music

Women Orchestra
All-female orchestra founded by Shiori Abe,
which aims to deliver innovative, tailored andeasily-accessible performance under the conceptof empowered women and ensures carrier after
marriage and childbirth for participating artists.

Seika Itoh (singer/musical actress)
She is a musical actress and singer, who
performed both Japan and the US. She appears
also on TV as a reporter. She provides children’s
education, including SDGs topics, through musicin Japan and various Asian countries.

Shiori Abe (violinist), Mika Watanabe (pianist),
Seika Itoh (musical actress/singer) and Mack Okubo(lecturer) participated in musical presentations on
SDGs at Efma Insurance Summit in Vienna, ASEAN
Insurance Congress in Bali and Keio University
lecture in Tokyo in 2019.

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Support for sake breweries in the disaster area with songs.
Appealing to women about the health and beauty benefits of sake.
Nihonshu Joshi (Japanese sake women)
Singing in support of sake from Tohoku, an affected area by the Great(singer group)

The 3 members of the group - Aimee Ujiie(singer/songwriter/sauce taster), Chika
Kamiya (actress/voice actor/sauce taster) and
Hitomi Toyosumi (singer/songwriter/
pharmacist) - perform a variety of musicalactivities focusing on sake. They have released
songs in collaboration with sake breweries fromall over Japan to promote their products.

East Japan Earthquake among others. Promoting the health and beauty
benefits of sake. They developed "Kokoro Yururin", a sake that is easy todrink for beginners and women, in collaboration with a sake brewery.
『Let’s drink Japanese Sake』
MiyagiIchinokura Suzune Series『Haru Urara (A beautiful spring day)』
AomoriMutsu Hassen URARA『Kokoro Yururin (A relaxed mind)』
Fukushima Sasamasamune sake brewery
Kokoro Yururin

Kokoro Yururin Release Party

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Environment and world peace: An entrepreneur taking actions toprotect our children's future & Students building friendship across barriers

Takahisa Taniguchi (IT entrepreneur/environmental activist)

Born in Osaka. Majored in IT at university and studied abroadin the UK. While at university, he founded an internet
business. While working as a director (COO) of a global IT
company, he moved to Germany and started his own
business for the purpose of solving social issues. While
working on environmental trade projects and publishing"Money that Diminishes in Value Over Time," he is also
involved in activities (information dissemination, rallies,
lectures, etc.) to stop the climate crisis.

Japan-Israel-Palestine Student Conference
Representative：Lin Ito, Rina Inokuchi

Activities： Japan-Israel-Palestine Student Conference（JIPSC)
is the student organization, established in 2003, which
promotes exchanges between Israeli / Palestinian students andJapanese students. The main event of JIPSC is the Joint Student
Conference held in August every year. In this event, they invite
Israeli / Palestine students to Japan, and in 2weeks live together
having the discussion, peace learning, and recreations. This year,
it has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. At thisconference, they aim to give chances to have dialogue todiscuss the conflict problem or deepen friendship.
They also hold seminars andworkshops to enhanceawareness in Japan on the
Israel and Palestine conflict.
We held an online workshop(as the first challenge) thisAugust.

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Sharing Japanese culture through music and art

Yuzu Natsumi(Shamsen)A singer, writer and composer, Yuzu uses her
shamisen to bring the beauty and sophisticationof traditional Japanese culture to the world
through contemporary and traditional music.
She has traveled around the world to the UnitedStates, Asia, Thailand, the Philippines, andCambodia, and in 2019, she performed at Japan
Expo in Paris for the first time.

Kyokomachi Odorikotai (dancer group) &Nicolette Templier (Miss Earth USA ECO 2019)
Kyokomachi Odorikotai is a group of dancers who promotekimono and support urban development with youth
revitalization. During the show, dancers will dance in aneasy-to-wear recyclable beautiful kimono with 3-part
formula, which is an innovation to make kimono for,everyone, including those with a handicap, and prove how
it is easy to move wearing this kimono innovation.
Nicolette
Templier, Miss
Earth USA Eco
2019, will join our
26 September
event in Kimono!

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A top Broadway star, the current Christine Daaé of the Phantomof the Opera, sharing her perspectives on the empowerment of women
Meghan Picerno (coloratura soprano/opera singer/musical actress)
Meghan Picerno currently stars as iconic leading lady, Christine Daaé, in
the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, and is consistently praised forher exciting, crowd-pleasing performances in opera, theatre, and on
concert stages throughout the world. After delighting audiences with her
performances as Christine on the World Tour of The Phantom of the Opera,
and in the US Premiere/National Tour of Love Never Dies, fan favorite,
Picerno made her highly-anticipated Broadway début as Christine Daaéthis past fall in Broadway’s longest running production, The Phantom of
the Opera where she was hailed as one of the Top Broadway
replacements of 2019 (Broadway Box) and nominated as Broadway
Replacement of the Decade (Broadway World).
Meghan’s impeccable portrayal and vocal performance as Christine Daaé
led to special invitations from Andrew Lloyd Webber to represent his bodyof work in performance on the ITV television broadcast of the Classic
BRIT Awards in 2018, and a guest appearance on the Live at Chelsea
Concert Series honoring his 70th birthday.
Follow her: IG@meghanpicerno, FB@meghanpicernocoloratura,
www.meghanpicerno.com(Photos from the Phantom of the Opera by Matt Murphy)

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Supporting the soul with music. Singing for hope, love and world peace
Ayumi Ueda (singer/sound healer)

Ayako& Women of the World (vocal ensemble)

Ayako is a Jazz Vocalist who has a cute yet ennuilike deep voice that appeals to both men andwomen of all ages. After retiring from modeling,musicals, and NHK media, she returned to thestage as a model, MC, and dancer, and made her
vocal debut in 2019 with Ayako First Album A.
She is currently performing all over Japan with
her authentic, yet fun live shows the even those
who are new to the Jazz Standard can enjoy.

Ayumi successfully completed a musical project"100 Voices, 1 Heart" together with vocalists
from all around the world singing together“Wings to Fly”. She is also the founder of a
Boston-based award-winning international vocal
ensemble, Women of the World.

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Music therapy can change lives. Supporting children withspecial needs (i.e. children on autism spectrum) through music education

Yagull - Kana Kamitsubo Markovic
and Sasha Markovic (pianist/music therapist)
Yagull is a world-renowned acoustic duo featuring Kana
Kamitsubo Markovic (grand piano) & Sasha Markovic(acoustic guitar) based in NYC.
Kana is board-certified music therapist and opened a music
school in New York, called Hug Music, which has been serving
over 200 students including individuals with special needs.
Yagull performed “101” at the UN75 People’s Forum, hosted
by UN2020/Together First on May 14, 2020, as well as theUN75 Global Governance Forum on September 17, 2020.

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Music bringing happiness through a gentle face and nice words.
Talking about peace, welfare, care and human rights.
Heiwa Peace BandThe group got together to make people happy with the slogan “Gentle face and nice words" and started theiractivities in 2018. in 2019, they performed songs selected for events on peace, such as Memorial Day in Okinawa,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Born in Japan, Rino（sanshin/vocal）studied theater at theUnited Performers Studioand Min’yo (folk song)with the Hokkaido Min’yo
Federation’s suprme
master, Ryusyu Kubota.
She continued to playsanshin and sing in the
United States. She sangfor peace at memorialservices in Three Mile,
Hiroshima, Nagasaki,
Okinawa, and 9/11. She
also plays sanshin at
welfare and nursing
homes in hopes ofbringing a joy of music.

Rino Aise

Hiroshi Kono
（guitarist）

In 1992, Hiroshi moved to New
York City. After playing in rockbands such as The Spectres andRemember Alice, he studiedclassical guitar under Lars
Frandsen, and in 2003, hefounded the indie label Mar
Creation Records, and in recent
years, he has been working as amusic producer and supporting
artists as a guitarist.

Sonny is a master of the Nomura
Sonny Ochiai Schoolof Ryukyu Classical Music.

（sansin）

1978, he joined the punkJun Nakanishi Inband
MAD, and in 1986, he was（percussion）

involved in the production of thedebut album of the multinationalband Seven Lucky Gods, and in
2012, he founded Noon Tan
Music, Inc. He has produced"Trip of Love" (2015) aongothers. He also performs nursing
home comfort events.

Fascinated by the Beatles, especially

Kenjitsu Paul McCartney's bass playing,
Nakagaki Kenjitsu started playing bass. In highHe was awarded by the Okinawa Times （bass）
Entertainment “Apex Award" forSanshin in 2010. He is appointed as
Okinawa Goodwill Ambassador by the
Okinawan Governor, and actively
promoting Okinawa culture throughvarious festivals and ethnic events in
the New York area..

school and college, he belonged to a
band. He founded the New York
Peace Foundation and has been
involved in various activities tospread peace and smiles in the world.
Playing the bass and writing lyrics ispart of those activities, and it has aunique flavor that only a long-time
Buddhist monk can provide.

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Marc Chagall's poetry expressed in music“Seul est Mien (Mine alone is the country in my soul )”Gautier Abadie (Composer)

Elizaveta Kozlova (Opera singer/soprano)

French composer Gautier Abadie hasa wide experience in film scoring. He
is the assistant composer of theacclaimed Noam Kaniel with whom
he works on such Netflix shows asPower Rangers, Cities of Gold andMiraculous Lady Bug. Gautier has
also worked for Saban Entertainment
and Zag Animations. Gautier Abadie
is currently pursuing his Masters
Degree at Vermont College of Fine
Arts where he studies with Rick Baitz,
Jonathan Bailey-Holland and John
Fitz-Rogers.

Russian-born soprano Elizaveta Kozlova has appeared
as a soloist in Moscow International House of Music asa member of Vladimir Spivakov’s Youth Foundation.
Elizaveta Kozlova made her Lincoln Center debut as
Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with New York Lyric
Opera. Other operatic appearances include Pamina (Die
Zauberflöte) with Manhattan Opera Studio and Amore(L’incoronazione di Poppea) with Berlin Opera Studio.
Elizaveta is the 1st Prize Winner of Russian State
Competition “Music, Talent, Discovery”. She is thefounder of The Chagall Project which has received the2020 Marin Alsop Entrepreneurship Award. Elizaveta
Kozlova is pursuing her Masters Degree at Mannes
School of Music where she studies with Ruth Falcon.

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A beautiful choir from South Africa, City of Durban, singing
to promote sustainable development of Africa, a future land of the earth
The Clermont Choir
The Clermont Choir has been engaged in various music
events to enhance awareness on environmental andsocial issues, including the empowerment of women.
Here is another evidence to prove that music is a
powerful tool to promote sustainable development
and social contributions.
Under the leadership of Wiseman Mkhize as the Chief Executive,
an ensemble now 28 years old – the Clermont Choir has becomea sort of family. This family is a foundation upon which many
individuals have built, instilling the imperative values of discipline,
commitment, respect for oneself and one’s neighbour, passion for
one’s work, and a sense of contribution to society.
With a massive 28 years’ rich experience in choral music initiatives,
the Clermont Choir is one of the oldest and surviving choirs inSouth Africa. The proﬁle of this choir speaks volumes including
national and international accolades on their belt. Since 2009, theClermont Choir are the undefeated champions in theprestigious South Africa’s Old Mutual National Choir Festival.

During our program, you will witness through their music
performance and messages their commitment, passion
and love for the future of Africa and the Earth.

Collaboration with Music for Climate Justice

Teaming up with Music for Climate Justice (M4CJ), bringing
artists around the globe to promote sustainable futureMusic for Climate Justice
On Earth Day, 22 April 2021, a highly ambitious
music event will take place — a 24-hour live concert
from the most iconic venues in the world’s 24 timezones, with A-list artists from around the world
performing their most meaningful work to saveplanet and people, and indigenous artists stepping
into the light to share their art with the world.
Music for SDGs aims to support this initiative ofMusic for Climate Justice (M4CJ), which share acommon goal to promote sustainable future throughmusic, art and entertainment. On the 26th, we willhear updates on the M4CJ initiative.

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Building a society which would regard handicap aspersonality and positively evaluate diversity

Shihori (pop singer songwriter/pianist/composer)
She is a New York-based prominent singer andmusic creator, and composes and sings formovies, games, TV commercials and TV anime.
She has a natural hearing loss in her left ear,but a perfect pitch in her right ear and a heart
shaking voice. She is also promoting
sustainable music carrier.
Perfect Imperfection (her new single)
https://youtu.be/w1FBd45HfJw

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A concert combining Anime, Jazz and SDGｓ
JAZZ4SDGs (jazz musician)Jazz musicians cover music from anime movies on SDG topics all in Jazz.
Aya IshidaAya is a New York-based vocalist andNobuki Takamen（singer/composer）composer specializing in Jazz. In 2017,（guitarist/composer）
Aya graduated from The City College of
New York under the Kaye Scholarship with
Degree Honors Magna Cum Laude. Her
2018 debut album, Day by Day, wasproduced by the Grammy award-winningsaxophonist Wayne EscofferyMack（singer/dancer/comedian）

Apart from being an international
businessman, Mack is known for an
entertainer and performed as singer,
comedian and dancer. His entertainment
activities include: Kumamoto charity
concert, impersonation at Carnegie Hall,
NYC anime dinner show, Hachinohe
Tanabata concert, Japan Fes Bon Bon
dancer, and off-Broadway jazz anime
concert.

Nobuki, a world-renowned jazz guitarist
and composer, has been developing a
reputation as ‘’the best jazz guitarist
Japan has ever produced’’ as lauded in
AllAboutJazz. He also won the First
Place for Instrumental Category at
the 2019 USA Songwriting Competition

Nagi Okamoto After graduating Koyo Conservatory, Kobe,（tenor sax player)

where she learned jazz and improvisationalmusic, Nagi supported many bands as aprofessional musician to develop her musicalcareer. In 2010, she entered Berklee Collegeof Music with scholarships, where she learned
with Grammy-award winning saxophonist Fred.
After graduating, Nagi made her leader group.
She is performing in Boston and New York.

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Dreams will come true. Heart beyond time.
A concert to feel the heartbeat of the earth.
Kippei (singer song writer/ music producer) & Ooko (lyricist)

Aya (kalimba player) & Nono (taolyre player)

Singer-songwriter Kippei and lyricist Ooko’s alumni duo join
forces. The baton of songs that connect dreams and hearts.

Apart from being a TV drama and musical actress, Aya isa kalimba player and singer. Teaming up with Nono, a
Taolyre player who opened the "Musical Instrument
Studio Jiyujin" with her husband, a lyre craftsman, in
nature-rich Aomori, where they make musicalinstruments such as Tao lyres, tano cymbals and soundchimes that heal people and nature with their sound andvibration, Aya will bring the audience to feel like being
part of the nature and hearing the sound of the earth.
She will play and sing anime music and talk about SDGs.

KippeiOoko（Yasunori Okoba）

Kippei is a singersongwriter and music
producer based in
Kashima, who supports
local revitalization andculture through his music
activities and offers live
performances with themotto "Enjoy".

Ooko creates poems that appear
unimaginable and delivers themas they are meant to bedelivered. His poems, whichevoke a sense of nature, life andtime, deliver important insights
and hearts to the reader.
Recently, he is producing videos,
allowing the viewer's
imagination to expand.

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Tailwind calligrapher, improvising performance to music.
Live as you dance. Dream evangelist, and professional dancer in
New York, the premier city for dancing

Shiho Noma (calligrapher)

Shiho has been studying under Shuho
Takeda of the Futaba Calligraphy Club
since May 2015. She works to create aplace to face oneself through calligraphy,
a place to make use of one’s personality
as well as a place to interact with people.
She creates logos and title letters, andperforms calligraphy together with music.
Her specialty is to make a tailwind with abrushstroke fan.
https://nomashiho.com/

Toshihiko Nakazawa (dancer, dream maker)

A professional dancer living in New York City
who made his dream come true in New York
City, the pinnacle of entertainment, after
changing from a salaried employee to aprofessional dancer. He won Amateur Night
as a solo dancer at the Apollo Theater. His
dance performance was aired on "So You
Think You Can Dance", a nationally popular
dance competition program, and selected as
one of the top 100 dancers out of 15,000
competitors. He is the only Japanese street
performer on The Ride, a multi-media tour
bus. He performed in New York City andaround the world. He gives lectures
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A Japanese activist acting to reduce waste in Africa &A high school student who overcame an serious illness and started an
eco-business.
Saki Kitahigashi (Entrepreneur/Environmental
Hiromi Jonishi Ndiritu (Environmental activist)
activist)

Saki had a brain tumor when she was 3 years old andacute myeloid leukemia when she was 9 years old. She
has recovered and now engaged in volunteer works.
While still in high school, she started her own ecobusiness. Creates and sells eco-friendly bags and otheritems. She plans to have a talk with Akiko Sanada,
the principal of her high school.

Main Activities• Garbage collection in the urban area of Embu County, Kenya
Hire a donkey, a rear car and a street boy to collect the trash• Separate collection of recyclable waste
While promoting the eco-bags, collecting recyclable plastic andother waste• Environmental education booklet
Produced an environmental education booklet (in cartoon form)
that can be used in class• Creating eco-bags and other goods from bright African
fabrics
Sold in Japan and other countries to help fund their activities.

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Diversity and Inclusion
Let’s dance together “No one left behind”
FaiRy (kids dancer group)
A dancing team led by Rina Yoshikawa(dancer, MC, choreographer), wherechildren with and without handicap are
dancing together.
People with and without disabilities create a piece ofwork together through dance, song, and talk, andperform at various community events to bring smiles
and energy to people.
Through entertainment, the group conveys the message
that children with and without disabilities can ″live
together" beyond the "barrier of disability".

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Collaboration with Africa Kids Summit
An opportunity for children in Japan and Africa to learn about SDGs
together and take the first step towards "future Japan" and "future Africa".

Africa Kids Summit 2020
Japanese children are connected to African children they havenever met before through the Internet. They talk about their own
cultures and interact with each other with their own sensibilities.
We hope this experience will have a great impact on the future
relationship between Japan and African countries.

It is our hope that the participating children learn about the SDGs,
get information to discuss the future of Africa, and become
interested in African countries, and that this experience will be thebeginning of their participation in the International Summit.

Official website：https://africa-kids-summit.org“TE・WO・ARAO (Let’s Wash Our Hands)”(Africa Kids Summit 2020’s theme song Vocal IYCO）

The song "TE-WO-ARAO (Let’s Wash Out
Hands)" was created by children in Africa andJapan to serve as the theme song for the eventwith the hope of reducing the number of children
suffering and dying from disease in the world.

Aiming at holding "Africa Kids Summit 2025"
at Osaka Expo in 4 years, we hold Africa Kids
Summit every year, increasing the number ofAfrican countries to which the summit will be
relayed. Thank you for your cooperation!

“AFRICA 4.0 FOUNDATION”
Representative Director
Yorihira Monden

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A technology company that is growing not only in Japan but alsointernationally, using cutting-edge technology to eliminate human hunger
and educational disparities

SERENITY❑ Virtual Smart City Business❑ Virtual City “THE NEW YORK NEW YORK”❑ VR・AI Business❑ Virtual Conference Business❑ Urban Development・Real Estate Business
Masafumi Sonoda, Chairman
http://corporate.serenity.ne.jp/［Message from SERENITY］
The concept of the company name "Serenity" is as follows:
Serenity means "peace, tranquility, serenity, serenity" in English. In
the world of Japanese Zen, there is a word, "Koufu Seigetsu“,
meaning that the mind is refreshing, clear and free of rutting. You
can also imagine a refreshing breeze blowing across the sunshine
and the moon in a clear sky after a rain. Our motto is to become acompany that can help, even if only a little, to create a world where
there is no more conflict in this world and where many children canlive in peace and good health. In order to achieve this goal, the firstthing we will do is to practice Serenity’s "Creation of Peace".
Music for SDGs pursues the development of a newgeneration of music events using virtual reality and otherIT technologies, as well as distance learning throughentertainment. We also aim to realize a sustainable musiccareer through the use of virtual finance. The ultimate
goal is to achieve the SDGs. Serenity is a technology
company with strengths in virtual city planning, virtual
finance, entertainment, virtual education, e-Sports andgaming. Serenity would be an ideal partner for us.

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Join us to support Mauritius! Taking on the challenge oftransforming industry and improving the environment on a global
scale, based on cutting-edge “nanotechnology”.
［Message from M-TEchX Inc. ］
M-TEchX Inc.
M-TEchX successfully enabled mass production of Nanofiber, the new high-tech material with infinite
possibilities or a promising future, with unique safe manufacturing technology, and applicable forvarious types of products.
In particular, we focus on the following six areas: ①Oil absorbent materials, enabling waste-oil
treatment, environmental measures to recover oil spills at sea, ②Housing construction materials,
with insulation effectiveness and sound absorbency, ③Automotive sound absorbent materials,
absorbing low-pitched sounds, ④Filters to catch fine dirt and dust, ⑤Masks that shut out
microscopic harmful substances and viruses, and ⑥Desert greening, which may contribute to the
expansion of farming land and global warming prevention.

❑ Production and development of
nanofiber chemical fiber products
and manufacturing machinery❑ R & D and commercialization of“magic fiber”, a nanofiber brand❑ Sales of oil adsorbents and otherproducts (Domestic and overseas)❑ Nanofiber business developmentwith business partners

Hiroyoshi Sota, CEO
https://www.mtechx.co.jp/

Off the coast of Mauritius, 1000 tons of heavy oil spilled out into thesea and damaged the nature. Mauritius Emergency Relief Project
was launched to remove spilled heavy oil with Magic Fibers andrestore the rich and beautiful sea of Mauritius, with sea turtles,
waterfowls, dolphins and corals. https://mauritius-rescue.com/
Music for SDGs supports businesses that would contribute to SDGs through technologicalinnovation on a global scale. We have been using music and entertainment to advocate theimportance of blue oceans and a green planet. Nanofibers are dream materials that cover awide range of keywords in the SDG era, as they may clean the sea and air, protect healthfrom epidemics, solve hunger and contribute to the prevention of global warming. We also
share an emergency relief project to restore the blue waters off the coast of Mauritius with
M-TEchX's "Magic Fiber," which have successfully treated oil spill accidents in Japan.

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Aiming for beauty “Sparkling in mind and body” offering products that are
key to beauty, health and society, and friendly to the earth’s environment.

LibeiroPlanning, development and sales of
products related to beauty and health❑ Product Planning and Development❑ mail-order sales❑ EC Mall Management

Yusuke Sasaki, President and CEO

https://libeiro.co.jp/［Message from Libeiro（Source Libeiro）］
Libeiro is a regular mail order manufacturer of health foods and cosmetics. Our
corporate philosophy is to make everyone “beautiful and cool”.

We are committed to working with our customers to shine, not only in terms of theirappearance, but also in terms of their lifestyles and their inner lives, by confronting
various challenges of the world. Libeiro is a mail-order manufacturer dedicated tomaking people around the world cooler and more beautiful with eco-friendly products.
We all live with a number of concerns in our daily lives. We are committed to creatingproducts that help people with these concerns also from an environmental perspective.
Music for SDGs are planning events that combine beauty, healthand music to promote women's success.
The good health of both body and mind is an importantelement of SDG3. Libeiro's contribution to SDG 3 by designingand developing health foods and products that address thecomplexities and concerns of our customers is in line with ourphilosophy. They also offer products that support women's lives(SDG 5) and earth-friendly green products (SDG 13).
Furthermore, Libeiro kindly designed the logo for Music for
SDGs for free of charge. As expected of a star in the fashionindustry, this is a masterpiece with a great sense of style.

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A multi-lingual international patent firm with a strong global
network. Contributing to industrial development and sustainableeconomic growth through intellectual property rights.
OTA & ASSOCIATES, PATENTS & TRADEMARKSⓇ

Services related to intellectual property rights❑ Patents, utility models, designs, trademarks, copyrights
and unfair competition❑ Domestic and foreign applications, searches, expert
opinions, lawsuits, contracts, consultations, etc.
Keiichi Ota, President・Patent Attorney
http://www.otapatent.com［Message from OTA & ASSOCIATES］
Ota & Associates is a specialist in intellectual property law. Our
Japanese and French female and male staff (SDG 5) contributeto sustainable economic growth (SDG 9) by protecting andexploiting inventions, devices, designs and trademarks underpatent law, utility model law, design law and trademark law,
thereby contributing to industrial development (SDG 9).
Music for SDGs supports new businesses that contributeto the SDGs through technological innovation andentrepreneurs who are breaking out of their local andnational shells to explore the world. Securing
intellectual property rights is an important element ofsuch companies' activities. Ota & Associates iscontributing to the achievement of the SDGs throughindustrial and economic development. The firm has anextensive international network, partnered with morethan 1,000 patent offices in Europe, North America,
South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania. The firm has astrong presence not only in English but also in Frenchspeaking countries, with the head of the firm teachingin France. Ota & Associates would be a powerful ally forcompanies wishing to expand their business overseas.

United Nations 75 Year Celebration Music Festival for SDGs 2020
Mack Okubo Executive Producer (Project Director, Music for SDGs & GloCha Associate)

Music for SDGs ProjectWith support of Partnerwith

Under the slogan of No one will be left behind! aiming to provide opportunities
for general public to deepen understanding of SDGs in an easier and enjoyable
way through music events integrating entertainment and education

For more details, visit

mackglobe.com
or MusicForSDGs.com
or email Makoto Okubo(mackglobe@gmail.com orMusicForSDGs@gmail.com )SDGs Collaboration Contest& Seminar @ Rough Labo35