The Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities held an art festival at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space on August 5-7, 2008, with production assistance from the Japan Association of Classical Music Presenters. Workshops, seminars, and 20-minute talk and performance presentations by musicians were held over three days, mainly for the benefit of public concert hall representatives.

Presentations were given by thirty-nine groups of artists registered to work with concert halls engaged in concert hall invigoration and support programs and seven groups of artists participating in public concert hall invigoration and outreach programs. Among the registered artists who gave ambitious presentations are the pianists Mitsutaka Shiraishi and Ken-ichi Nakagawa and violinist Akiko Ono, all artists profiled at this site.

After the programs concluded there was a get-together for the concert hall representatives, artists and their managers, who broke up into groups to discuss worthwhile projects of interest. The event is expected to gain results in the form of projects in various communities.

* The foundation's "public concert hall music invigoration" programs seek to popularize classical music by sending performing artists and others to public concert halls to work with community groups for the production of concerts or activities involving other kinds of community-based musical performance events. Support and outreach forum programs are affiliated with these activities. It is hoped that these activities will help make the concert hall representatives better able to carry out productions, improve the artistic environment of communities and teach the artists about the situation of local markets, programming, workshops and outreach activities.


Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities