JFNY NEWSLETTER | November 1, 2022

Upcoming/Ongoing events

SUZUKI SEIJUN Touring Retrospective

November 4,10 & 11– Duke University (Darham, NC)

November 7 & 14– Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York)

Come join us for Suzuki Seijun Touring Retrospective, a series of six films in collaboration to celebrate the publication of Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema by Dr. William Carroll. In early November, the films will be screened at Duke University and Bard College. For the complete touring schedule visit the link below.


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Announcement

The Japan Foundation 50th Anniversary Website

The Japan Foundation has launched a special website to commemorate the Japan Foundation’s 50th anniversary. The Japan Foundation was established in 1972 with the purpose of deepening the understanding of other countries toward Japan, promoting mutual international understanding, and contributing to culture and other fields around the world. On the anniversary webpage, you can read the articles of various projects which highlight our path of fifty years. Please read the articles from the following link.


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Join JF Digital Library for Free!

Our new digital library ​has over 1,800 titles in ​broad genres such as manga, literature, Japanese language, art, history, culture, society, cooking & food, etc. They are all free to read! ​We hope everyone can browse our digital library and find a book to read.

 

JF USA Digital Library Webpage

 

To apply, please register by going to the Application form and clicking on “Click Here to Complete the Digital Library Signup Survey” at the bottom of the page. We will send out confirmation emails from The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It ​will include your Library Card number and Pin code to access. After you receive it, you will be ready to read digital books on both OverDrive webpage and their e-reader app: Libby!

 

Please note the digital library is available only for U.S. residents 14 years or older. If you reside in Canada, please register through Toronto office's webpage.

From Our Grantees

AHWIN Forum: Harnessing the Power of Technology for Healthy Aging in Asia

November 8, 13:30–18:00 (JST)

Tokyo Prince Hotel (Tokyo, Japan) & Online

The AHWIN Forum is a joint initiative of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) to encourage and inform effective aging-related policies throughout the world and to foster regional cooperation in promoting healthy and active aging among older persons in Asia. It is convened under the auspices of the Government of Japan’s Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative (AHWIN). The focus this year will be on regional efforts to translate data and innovations into better policies, products, and programs for healthy aging and care for older persons, and to discuss best practices in designing age-friendly cities that enable people to stay active and connected and foster solidarity among generations.


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Catch Your Body (workshop) At Home at Cave (Performance)

November 11- November 13

CAVE home of LEIMAY (Brooklyn, New York)

Butoh dancer Yukio Suzuki will present his solo performance of At Home at Cave in Brooklyn, NY, and the Butoh enthusiasts will have an opportunity to learn his Butoh methods through two workshops. The workshop participants will learn how to search for the potential of their bodies through Butoh movements. His solo performance At Home at Cave is a collaborative work with an emerging photographer Saki Yagi. Suzuki’s evolutional approach to Butoh method has been acknowledged and respected not only domestically but also internationally: he has been touring around more than forty cities in the world. This event is supported through Grant Program for Dispatching Artists and Cultural Specialists.


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Noriaki Tsuchimoto

November 12– 27

Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY)

One of the most unjustly overlooked of all documentary filmmakers, Noriaki Tsuchimoto (1928–2008) made films that are revelatory in their patient pursuit of humanity. Tsuchimoto is best known for his series of films set in the town of Minamata, which earned him a quiet reputation as the preeminent chronicler of life in the wake of industrial disaster, but his oeuvre also took him throughout Japan and to Siberia and Afghanistan in a career spanning the 1960s through 1980s. As part of this first ever major U.S. retrospective of Tsuchimoto, the Museum will be presenting twelve films, including many in imported archival prints and six with newly translated English subtitles. Organized by guest curator Max CarpenterThis event is co-organized by The Japan Foundation and supported through the JFNY Grant for Arts & Culture.


Use code Tsuchimoto10 online or in person for a 10% discount on tickets for any of the screenings.


Films in the series: Discovering Japan: Tokyo Metropolis (1962), On the Road: A Document (1964), Exchange Student Chua Swee-Lin (1965), The World of the Siberians (1968), Prehistory of the Partisans (1969), Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971), Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life (1973), The Shiranui Sea (1975), My Town, My Youth (1978), The Minamata Mural (1981), Umitori: Robbing the Sea at Shimokita Peninsula (1984), and Afghan Spring (Dirs. Hiroko Kumagai, Abdul Latif, Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 1989). 

 

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From Our Friends

Finding Her Beat – DOC NYC

November 16– 27

New York, NY & Online

Finding Her Beat, about an all-female troupe to perform Taiko, will be screened at DOC NYC festival! Catch an in-theater screening on November 16th, 7pm and November 17th, 12pm at IFC Center in New York City or an online screening anywhere in the U.S. from 17th November to 27th November. Get a special discount on tickets! Find the code in the link below-


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