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Tokyo Festival 2019

Schedule: 2019.09.21 Sat. -11.23 Sat.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre / IKEBUKURO Area etc.

Message from Satoshi Miyagi, General Director of Tokyo Festival 2019

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics is finally near！ But is it really going to be a “Festival of Peace” as they say?

In recent years in the world, bringing in power to make someone silent has been dominant when difficult situations occur. Strength, meaning military power and economic power.
Yes, it’s true that you can make someone obey with power. But those that are made to obey will definitely not respect those that have power.
They will just hold a strong grudge against those with power. That is how human beings are.

Consequently, if there’d be something left that we could do — in such a swirl in the world — I think it’s that we should appeal the merits of “diversity.”
We should not measure everything with just one ruler, but address to the world that there are different rulers, by saying ‘’hey, there’s this kind of ruler, too’’ and increasing the number of rulers by the second.
In the long run, people will take interest in other people’s rulers as well, and think, “How interesting that there are people who value such kinds of things！”

The Tokyo Festival will endeavor to contribute to such ways of thinking.
We will have a “World Competition” starting this year, in which participants can directly feel the fun of increasing the number of rulers. (We truly hope that next year will be a “Festival of Peace”！)

With the hope that you would take even just a little interest in our endeavors to make this happen.

Schedule

2019.09.21 Sat. -11.23 Sat.

Venue

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre / IKEBUKURO Area etc.

Programs

○Tokyo Festival World Competition 2019

Schedule: 2019.10.29 Tue. – 11.4 Mon.

Participating Works

●Dai Chenlian (Beijing, China) “东来紫气满函关（Big Nothing）”

Schedule: 11.2 Sat.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre East

●Sydney Chamber Opera (Sydney, Australia) “The Howling Girls”

Schedule: 10.31 Thu.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Playhouse

●El Conde de Torrefiel (Barcelona, Spain) “La posibilidad que desaparece frente al paisaje（Possibilities that disappear before a landscape）”

Schedule: 10.30 Wed.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre East

●Charles Nomwendé Tiendrebéogo (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) “Mea Culpa”

Schedule: 10.30 Wed
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre West

●Bonobo (Santiago, Chile) “Tú Amarás （You Shall Love）”

Schedule: 11.2 Sat.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre West

●dracom (Osaka, Japan) “Sokonaizu-Bottomless”

Schedule: 11.2 Sat. – 11.3 Sun.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Playhouse

○IKEBUKURO Takigi Noh (torch lit Noh) / Traditional Performing Arts in the Park

Schedule: 9.21 Sat.
Venue: Higashi-Ikebukuro Chuo Park

○Peaole Dance on This Earth: A Folk-Dance Festival / Traditional Performing Arts in the Park

Schedule: 9.22 Sun.
Venue: Higashi-Ikebukuro Chuo Park

○Nanafuku’s my-heart-stealer

Schedule: 10.1 Tue.
Venue: Owlspot Theatre

○Roaming Shopping Street Festival

Schedule: 10.5 Sat.・10.6 Sun.
Venue: Shopping streets in Toshima (Ikebukuro Honcho, Otsuka, and Minami-Nagasaki areas), TRAM-PAL Otsuka

○NODA･MAP『Q：A Night At The Kabuki』inspired by A Night At The Opera

Schedule: 10.8 Tue. – 10.15 Tue. , 11.9 Sat. – 12.11 Wed.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Playhouse

○BLIND

Schedule: 10.17 Thu. – 10.20 Sun.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre East

○THE THREE SISTERS

Schedule: 10.18 Fri. – 10.20 Sun.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Playhouse

○SPICE “New Jungle”

Schedule: 10.18 Fri. – 10.20 Sun.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre West

○I am a CAT

Schedule: 10.19. Sat. – 10.29 Tue.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Square in front of the Theatre

○The Farm

Schedule: 10.19 Sat. – 10.20 Sun.
Venue: Owlspot Theatre

○History of Violence

Schedule: 10.24 Thu. – 10.26 Sat.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Playhouse

○Strange Green Powder

Schedule: 10.24 Thu. – 10.27 Sun.
Venue: Sekicho-an (Mejiro Garden)

○Transfield from Asia Bamboo Talk, PhuYing

Schedule: 10.25 Fri. – 10.27 Sun.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre East

○Transfield from Asia Sand (a)isles

Schedule: 10.28 Mon. – 11.10 Sun.
Venue: Locations around Toshima City

○Hand Saw Press “Drop-in Rizo Zine Studio”

Schedule: Mid-October – Mid November
Venue: Location in Toshima ward

○NOWHERE OASIS

Schedule: Late October – Mid-November
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and other

○Hello from Bertha

Schedule: 11.2 Sat. – 11.4 Mon.
Venue: Owlspot Theatre

○Transfield from Asia To To Transfer

Schedule: 11.2 Sat. – 11.4 Mon.
Venue: Theatre Green BIG TREE THEATER

○DOCU(NT)MENT “Changes” Season 2

Schedule: 11.2 Sat. – 11.4 Mon.
Venue: Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas

○Always Coming Home (working title)

Schedule: 11.8 Fri. – 11.10 Sun.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre East

○Transfield from Asia Soft Play

Schedule: 11.9 Sat. – 11.10 Sun.
Venue: Theatre Green BIG TREE THEATER

○Series for All Understand and appreciate Yakumo and Soseki through the world of noh

Schedule: 11.9 Sat. – 11.10 Sun.
Venue: Owlspot Theatre

○Daidengaku Ikebukuro Emaki

Schedule: 11.10 Sun.
Venue: TOKYO TATEMONO Brillia HALL, Hareza Ikebukuro

○Bridges to Babylon

Schedule: 11.20 Wed. – 11.23 Sat.
Venue: TOKYO TATEMONO Brillia HALL, Hareza Ikebukuro

○APAF [Asian Performing Arts Farm]

Schedule: 10.25 Fri. – 10.27 Sun.
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre West

★The 31st Ikebukuro Play Festival

Schedule: 9.1 Sun. – 9.30 Mon.
Venue: Owlspot Theatre and other

★Enchanting moments of true virtuosity ~Two Chikamatsu’s pieces by master Seiji Tsuruzawa

Schedule: 11.28 Thu.
Venue: LINE CUBE SHIBUYA