FY2014 FESTIVAL Programs*As soon as details are finalized, they will be made available in press releases uploaded to our website.

Genre

Project

Venue

PeriodOutlineTokyo Traditional Arts Program

National Theatre, Tokyo
International Forum, etc.

August – December

This project is designed to disseminate the appeal of traditional performing arts and culture to Japan and the rest of the world. In
traditional arts performances we will feature genres ranging from Noh to traditional Japanese music and Nihon buyo to vaudeville-style andfolk entertainment, seek to expand the audience for these arts, and present authentic performances by leading artists. There will be
performances with “living national treasures” and the new generation of successors, and we will also carry out programs which are chosenfrom among the public, as in last year’s project.

Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony 2014

Edo-Tokyo Open Air
Architectural Museum,Hama-rikyū Gardens

In a garden and an open-air museum in Tokyo, we will hold large-scale tea ceremonies bringing together a number of tea schools, andintroduce the culture of tea and the Edo-Tokyo culture which nurtured it to people from Japan and other countries. Events including
Nodate, an outdoor tea ceremony under the autumn sky and a Tea ceremony workshop for beginners, in addition to a full-scale tea
September -October ceremony, will make the “ culture of tea ” more accessible and enjoyable for people from overseas and those unfamiliar with the tea
ceremony. At the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, we are increasing the number of tea ceremony locations so that even more
people can experience the “culture of tea”.

Geigeki Selection

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

Year-roundA variety of theatrical projects will be presented, including performances staged by young directors and training projects for young
aspirants. One of this year's program will feature artistic director Hideki Noda's play “The memory of Little Finger” , which has seldom
been restaged among his past masterpieces. It will be staged by an up-and-coming playwright and director, Takahiro Fujita. We will alsopresent a workshop for young people under 18 by dancer/choreographer Saburo Teshigawara, “ Jisaku Jien (read his/ her own work) ” ,reading series “Tokyo” combining reading and talk.

Music Weeks in TOKYO 2014

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan,
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre,
etc.

September –March
2015 (planned)

This music festival unites a diverse range of projects based on the pillars of “ participation” and “ creativity” , with the aim of enhancing
creativity and stimulating the musical culture that could only come about in the world-class music city that is Tokyo. While revolving
around classical music, the festival will feature a wide array of concerts in conjunction with cultural facilities and artists in various fields;“The Machinaka Concert” rooted in local areas; and a “Music Education Program” in cooperation with the overseas educational institution
and so on.

Premium Concert: Harmony for the Future

Runekodaira, Fuchu-no-Mori
Year-round
Art Theatre, Olympus Hall
Hachioji, etc.

In various locations in the Tama area and Tokyo's islands, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra — “ the musical ambassador ofJapan ’s capital Tokyo ” —will present orchestra and ensemble concerts including audience participation. This program aims to familiarize
people of all ages and backgrounds with classical music, as well as create excitement around the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic
Games as “cultural Olympic and Paralympic Games”.

La Folle Journée au Japon“Days of Enthusiasm” Music Festival 2014
<Collaborative Project>Tokyo International Forum,
etc.

April - May

La Folle Journ ée, one of the world's largest music festivals, seeks to widen the scope of classical music and share its joys with as many
people as possible. In cooperation with this festival, we will offer events for children including workshops and outreach programs
emphasizing hands-on experience, and programs designed to develop the talent of young musicians. This year we will also present a special
project marking the 10th anniversary of La Folle Journée au Japon.

Sound Live Tokyo

TBA

November –December (planned)

This is a new kind of festival that takes a multifaceted approach in introducing current modes of expression related to “sound”. Cuttingedge live performances and works connecting intuition with intelligence through music and sound will be presented to a wide-ranging
audience and disseminated to countries outside of Japan.

Roppongi Art Night 2014

Roppongi Area

April 19 (Sat.) and
20 (Sun.)This all-night extravaganza held in the Roppongi area proposes a new lifestyle incorporating the enjoyment of art into daily life, and aims tocreate a trailblazing urban planning model for the vast city of Tokyo. Based on this year's theme, “Move Your Body!”, the many ingenious
and diverse programs included the “One Body Project”, featuring giant patchworks made from old clothing; and the Roppongi parade inwhich the public was invited to participate.

Museum of Contemporary
Art Tokyo

September –January Nomura as general advisor, this 5th edition will cover a wide range of physical expression, from traditional to contemporary, as it explores
ways of connecting physical memories with new forms of creativity. Revolving around contemporary expression while referring to history,
2015

Traditional
Arts

TheatreMusic

Tokyo Art Meeting Ⅴ
Visual Arts Seeking New Genealogy- Art, Body,
Performance (Tentative Title)

Yebisu International Festival for Art &Alternative Visions 2015

Tokyo Art Meeting pursues new possibilities through encounters between contemporary art and various fields of expression. With Mansai
this exhibition will encompass various expressive fields including painting, photography, video, installation, and performance.

Ebisu area, etc. (details tobe announced around
October 2014)

February – March2015

The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions is an international art and film festival designed to disseminate film art andculture inside and outside Japan. This integrated event includes exhibitions and screenings of genre-crossing, highly artistic works, andactivities such as live events, lectures and discussion sessions. As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography will be temporarilyclosed for renovations, the festival will be held in other venues this time.

FY2014 KIDS/YOUTH*As soon as details are finalized, they will be made available in press releases uploaded to our website.

Genre

Project

Venue

PeriodOutlineChildren will receive direct instruction over a seven-month period from leading performers in the fields of Noh, Nihon buyo, Sankyoku andNagauta, and at the end of this period they will give performances on stage. The project aims to give children an appreciation of traditional
performing arts long cherished by Japanese, and enable them to carry on the spirit of these arts. This year we will offer a class for highschool students and a “graduate class” for those who have taken part in the past. To make participation easier, we will also introduce a
new community-based program in which children receive training and give a performance in a short span of time. And the annual “Special
Youth Version” for high school students will be held this year as well.

Traditional
Traditional Performing Arts for Kids
Arts

Hosho Nohgakudo,
Asakusa Public Hall,etc.

Year-round

Performance Kids Tokyo

Elementary schools,
junior high schools, andcultural facilities, etc.

June – March 2015 on stage on the final day. Artists exploring contemporary modes of expression will make use of the children's ideas as they create(planned)theatrical works, and through this process they will bring out the children's creativity and independence and improve their communication

TACT/FESTIVAL 2014

Tokyo Metropolitan
TheatreMay

Music and Performing Arts educational
programTamashin RISURU Hall,
June –March 2015 resources in arts fields. Held in conjunction with Tokyo Bunka Kaikan “Opera Box”, events will include hands-on workshops giving young
people opportunities to come into contact with arts and culture; “ Outreach Concerts ” bringing the fascination of live classical music
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan,(planned)
performance to schools and other facilities; and “Outreach Workshops” offering children instruction in musical instruments and the shared
etc.

Professional performing artists in fields such as dance, theatre and music will visit schools and cultural facilities over a 10-day period,
conducting workshops and creating original stage productions in which the children have leading roles. The performances will be presented
skills.

TheatreThis festival presents outstanding productions from overseas that can be enjoyed by both children and adults. In this 5th edition, in
addition to the two main performances—“L'immédiat”, a production on the front line of the French “Nouveau Cirque”, and “Hans was
Heiri ” , the latest work by a duo artists from Switzerland, — works from Canada and Thailand will be presented, making for festival
atmosphere at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
This aim of this project is to deepen interest in and understanding of the performing arts among young people and cultivate humanMusicexperience of creating concerts.

VisualArts

Museum Start “i-Ueno”

Tokyo Metropolitan Art
Year-round
Museum, etc.

This 21st century educational program aims to create new learning opportunities through the cooperative efforts of museums, a university,
government and citizens. In this “ learning design project ” , the cultural and educational facilities concentrated in Ueno Park work in
partnership to support children's “museum debut” and create an environment where children and grownups can learn from one another.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Tokyo University of the Arts are driving forces in this project.

FY2014 ARTPOINT
The Tokyo Artpoint Project aims to create and transmit the various allures of Tokyo by connecting people, towns and activities through art. By implementing and developing art programs that connect various regional resources in the city through thecollaborative efforts of artists and residents, we will create a platform (human resources, hubs, and networks) that will make it possible and nurture the growth of NPOs that will play a major role in future regional society.
*As soon as details are finalized, they will be made available in press releases uploaded to our website.

Project

Venue

Co-host organization

OutlineTERATOTERA

Chuo-Line Area aroundKoenji and Kokubunji

Ongoing(General Incorporated
Association)

This project organizes a wide variety of “ongoing” art programs that bring together the many art spots in the Suginami, Musashino, andTama areas that lie between and around Koenji Station and Kokubunji Station on the JR Chuo Line--a region that has been home to a
thriving artist population and continued to attract growing numbers of young people.
TERAOTERA also places a strong emphasis on human resource development and continues to do planning for TERAKKO, a volunteer
group. Other initiatives include English courses for art managers, which will be conducted in cooperation with TARL.

Koganei Artfull Action!

Koganei City

Artfull Action (NPO) /Koganei City

Operating in Koganei City, this project aims to inspire regular citizens to pursue spiritually rich ways of life through encounters withart. The activities focus on using art culture to spur community development and creating opportunities for the public to get involvedin various programs. In FY2014, we will work to archive its past activities and plan art projects that give shape to cultural policies.

Toshima Art Station Koso

Toshima City

Onocoro (General Incorporated
Association) / Toshima City

Toshima Art Station Koso produces art stations to establish an environment that allows a diverse range of people to apply the regional
resources of Toshima City toward their own independent art activities. Toshima Art Station Z, located in Zoshigaya, promotesinteraction with its “self-cafe” approach and organizes programs featuring artist EAT & ART TARO.
Besides Toshima Art Station Z, the project planning to build Toshima Art Station Y, in collaboration with artist Toru Nakazaki.

Art Access Adachi: Downtown Senju Connecting through Sound Art

Adachi City

Tokyo University of the Arts,
Faculty of Music /OTOMACHI PROJECT (NPO) /Adachi City

Set in the Senju area of Adachi, Tokyo, this project teams with local community members to offer a variety of programs with a “sound”
theme in hopes of fostering new communication (connections) through art. One of Art Access Adachi’s main programs for FY2014 is
the creation of a “ Concert Involving 1,010 People in Senju ” at the “ Senju Pun-Filled Music Festival ” , a collaborative effort withcomposer Makoto Nomura.

Kaku Nagashima’s “How-To-Make”
Laboratory : Someone’s Dream

Various Areas in Tokyo

Mixed Media Product(General Incorporated
Association)

In this project, researchers direct their own unique and varied activities toward inventing and evaluating “ How-To-Make ” thattranscend the scope of existing methods. The core objective of the initiative is to develop human resources who can contribute tofuture art projects from diverse perspectives.
Young researchers and experts (in theater, architecture, acoustics, video, photography, and writing) will establish a “ laboratory ”
devoted to the theme of “Someone’s Dream”, an effort that will include investigations of research and performance methods.

Shioiri Tower Project

Shioiri ParkCIAN (General Incorporated
Association) / Arakawa CityThe Shioiri Tower was built in Shioiri Park (Arakawa City) as part of the project “Tadashi Kawamata: Tokyo in Progress – a View fromthe Sumida River”, which ran from 2010 through 2013. Inspired by the community’s calls to keep the Shioiri Tower in place, the Shioiri
Tower Program offers workshops and lectures that unite artists and local residents.

guru guru mix

Yanaka Areayanaka no okatte(General Incorporated
Association)

The “guru guru mix” program offers creativity workshops where children, artists, and adults in the Yanaka community generate “play”
through the context of everyday life.
From expressive youth to professionals and regular citizens to students, a wide range of different people gather at “ guru guru mix”
activities to interact and give life to new art.

Art Bridge Institute[Newly started program]

Tama City, etc.

Art Bridge Institute(Currently preparing to establish
an NPO)The Art Bridge Institute project will unite artists and university students to examine and research the Tama City community. Bybuilding “ bridges ” between various local elements, we will also create art projects geared toward cultivating connections between
people. The members of this project will also look at similar art projects and collaborative efforts that bring art into contact with otherfields, hoping to identify new roles for art and locate possibilities for creativity.

Hachioji CityAKITEN(Currently preparing to establish
an NPO)The AKITEN project hopes to enhance the value of the Hachioji shopping district, improve the community, and elevate the identity of
the area by making effective use of vacancies and empty spaces in the city. By incorporating art exhibits, industrial content, culture,
historical assets, and other elements that embody the community’s distinctive character into these abandoned spaces, the project will
use the power of art and design to showcase the wonder of Hachioji to city residents and other communities alike. Through the project,people will come together to find vacancies and tap the imaginations of local residents to fill the voids—and the community—with newlife.

AKITEN[New program]

FY2014 ARTPOINT
The Tokyo Artpoint Project aims to create and transmit the various allures of Tokyo by connecting people, towns and activities through art. By implementing and developing art programs that connect various regional resources in the city through thecollaborative efforts of artists and residents, we will create a platform (human resources, hubs, and networks) that will make it possible and nurture the growth of NPOs that will play a major role in future regional society.
*As soon as details are finalized, they will be made available in press releases uploaded to our website.

Project

Venue

Co-host organization

OutlineAs it sprinkles the seeds of harmonious, ringing sound around the East Tokyo area, the Topping East project strives to advance theconcept of creating music from within the city setting. Organizers will work to explore the horizons of music in public spaces and findthe optimal balance of music and community by opening stores and facilities to public creativity, sponsoring open parades, andorganizing other participatory music activities in the constantly evolving East Tokyo area, where Sky Tree and Shitamachi tourism
continues to develop and thrive.

Topping East
[New program]

East Tokyo area

Topping East
(Currently preparing to establish
an NPO)TOKYO FABBERS[New program]

Shibuya area andsouthwest TokyoFab Cafe LLPTOKYO FABBERS aims to build a network of the many creativity spots around Shibuya, a major hub for the information industry and avibrant source of cultural output, and form a new creative community in the area. Participating locations have HUB features that, whenconnected, will provide artists and creators with a “concierge service” and open doors to new creation.

Miharairo[New program]

Izu Oshimakichi(Currently preparing to establish
an NPO)

Designed to forge bonds among the generation that brought Oshima to where it is today, the generation of future leaders born andraised on Oshima, and the diverse generation of people now visiting Oshima to learn more about the community,
Miharairo will use design and art to weave these different groups together and stimulate dynamic community building.

“Rebirth of Light” Project- Discourse on the reactivation of“Counter Void”[New program]

Roppongi, etc.

ArchArt(Currently preparing to establish
an NPO)

Artist Tatsuo Miyajima turned off his “Counter Void” work, which once illuminated the Keyakizaka area of Roppongi, after thedisastrous Great East Japan Earthquake. This project will hold a variety of lectures and workshops to address the idea of relighting thework in a way that fits harmoniously into post-3/11 Japanese society.

Shiba, etc.

Research Lab for dialogues andexpressions of diversity anddivisions(Currently preparing to establish
an NPO)At the heart of this project is the concept of “diversion”, a method of survival in the modern world. The research staff conduct fieldstudies, provide a forum for dialogue, and make reports about the problems that arise out of the human diversity and divisions insociety. The project will explore the relationships between art and people who teeter on the divisions of disability, care, labor, housing,gender, sexuality, and nationality—and that process will help to reconsider the boundaries of art itself.

Tokyo “Soup and Blanket” Travelogue[New program]Ekoda, etc.

YUBIWA Hotel(General Incorporated
Association)

The focus of Tokyo “Soup and Blanket” Travelogue, led by theatre director and dramatist Shirotama Hitsujiya, is to delve deeper into
our spheres of existence in search of “beginnings”, “endings”, and the spaces in between. With the assistance of collaboratorsinterested in pursuing these themes, the project will hold a series of talk shows and conduct area-related research designed to lay thegroundwork for art programs. We also aims to form the basis for a network conducive to further exploration of the topic throughvarious collaborative arrangements.

Tokyo Art Research Lab (TARL)Tokyo Culture Creation
Project ROOM302, etc.

Nomad Production(General Incorporated
Association)*TARL Administration ProjectThis research program is open to art administrators. By nurturing the skills necessary to handle problems in the field and emphasizing
human resource development, the project hopes to expand the potential of what art projects can do in society.
Human resource development initiatives will include lectures designed to help office staff hone their skills and training programs whereparticipants can gain the knowledge integral to organizational management.

Tohoku Area
(Iwate/Miyagi/
Fukushima Prefectures)(Collaborative project)

A project launched by Tokyo Metropolitan Government to support the disaster areas through artistic and cultural activities, Art
Support Tohoku-Tokyo will join forces with local art NPOs, organizations, and coordinators to hold art programs in disaster-stricken
communities and support the recovery of the diverse cultural environment in the area.

Tokyo Diversion Research[New program]

Other

Art Support Tohoku-TokyoFY2014 NETWORKING*As soon as details are finalized, they will be made available in press releases uploaded to our website.

Project

Networking

Venue

TBA

PeriodOutline

October-November(planned)

To realize Tokyo as a city of global cultural creativity and to disseminate its cultural scenes both domestically and internationally,
networking projects invite various players in arts and culture from abroad and organize international conferences and visitors programs
to exchange with those of Tokyo.