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JFNY News & Events
The Hougaku Quatet
Those Who Remain
On Ensemble in Latin America
Japanese Impressions
Dressed to Kill
Masanori Oe's Films
NYICFF
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February 16, 8pm
The Japan Foundation is presenting a concert by the Hougaku Quartet. The Quartet was formed in 2011 by four young graduates of the Tokyo University of the Arts who are dedicated to creating music for today and music for the future, through traditional Japanese instruments. With a special guest performance by Ralph Samuelson, this event is co-organized by the Japan Foundation and Asia Society.
Admission is free, however reservations are recommended. For more information and to reserve tickets, please click here.
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Installation on view from January 26 through February 5
Performance: January 31, February 3 & February 4, 7:30pm each day
Asian Art Museum (Seattle, WA)
Experience this multidisciplinary collaboration between composer and musician Wayne Horvitz, visual artist Barbara Earl Thomas, and two Japan-based artists: video artist and VJ Yohei Saito and dancer/choreographer Yukio Suzuki. Using recordings of his work performed by the Seattle Symphony in 2015, Horvitz will compose a new electronic score with video created by Saito. Suzuki will perform several short dance improvisations daily at 12:30pm and 3pm. Four evening performances, each with different musicians, will be presented within the installation. This event is supported by the Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program.
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February 27 - March 5
Guatemala City (Guatemala) & Managua (Nicaragua)
 LA-based taiko ensemble will tour parts of Central America for a series of performances and workshops. This program is co-organized with the Embassies of Japan in Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Image: © Bryce Craig
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 As the first exhibition to focus on the Institute's permanent collection of Japanese prints, the show spans more than a century of Japanese color woodblock printing as represented by three generations of artists who produced prints from the 1830s to the 1970s. The JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture partially supports selected programs to coincide with Japanese Impressions.
Image: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858).
Awa Province: Naruto Whirlpools, from Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces, 1855.
Color woodblock print.
Gift of the Rodbell Family Collection, 2014.16.6.
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February 11 - May 7
Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH)
 130 warrior-related objects selected from the museum collection and the collection of Gary Grose will be on display to introduce Japanese samurai culture and arts from the 16th to 19th centuries. This exhibition is supported under the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.
Image: Suit of armor, 16th century and 18th century, metal, leather, Museum Purchase, 1892.2784.
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Head Game, 1967
Courtesy of the filmmaker
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This dual-city event will provide an opportunity to explore the historical intersection of experimental filmmaking with documentary cinema traditions in a period of radical social and political change. Scholar and curator Hirasawa Go and filmmaker Masanori Oe will be in person for a discussion at both venues. This event is supported under the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.
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February 24 - March 19
Various venues (New York, NY)
New York International Children's Film Festival has an outstanding lineup this year, including a wonderful array of films from Japan. For younger children, they are showing Rudolf the Black Cat, a touching (and adorable) story of a cat who leaves his comfortable home in Gifu and winds up in Tokyo under the wing of Gottalot, a seasoned street cat who teaches Rudolf to read the human language. They are also showing Panda! Go Panda!, two delightful featurettes brought to you by the legendary team that formed Studio Ghibli. For older kids, the festival will feature two films: Ancien and the Magic Tablet and Your Name, a Japanese box office hit. The festival is supported under the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.
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