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TURN Meeting No.10

2020.2.2

Finding enjoyment in unknown territory

In TURN meetings, we think about and discuss possibilities for the TURN art project.
For this tenth TURN meeting, we discuss diversity found in words, and how to face up to new emotional territory.
Reiji Suzuki, director of Kapu Kapu Hikarigaoka assisted living facility, has created a space where local elderly and people with disability can socialize naturally at the facility’s coffee shop Kissa Kapu Kapu. Poet Kanayo Ueda launched “The Room for Voice, Words and Hearts (cocoroom)” a cafe and guest house in Osaka’s Kamagasaki neighborhood for day laborers and travelers. In community spaces rooted in local communities, Suzuki has created an environment which encourages an easy, good-natured relationship between customers and staff, and Ueda continues with activities that shape “poetry.” Placing importance on a little greeting or a few words as well as on “words” expressed through gestures and a sense of personal/emotional space may be the secret to unlocking the expressiveness and diversity of an individual person. Between talks you can enjoy a reading/story-telling session with Madam Bonjour JohnJ.

*This event will be conducted in Japanese.

Outline

Period	Sunday, February 2 2020, 13:30 - 16:30 (Doors open at 13:00)
Venues	Classroom 109, 1F, Building 5, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts (12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo)
Admission	Free Advance reservation not required. Sign language and speech-to-text support available.
Credit	Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Nonprofit organization Art's Embrace, Tokyo University of the Arts

Meeting schedule

13:00	Doors open, admission
13:30	Opening remarks
13:35 – 14:10	Keynote talk (1): Relationships that develop at Kissa Kapu Kapu Speaker: Reiji Suzuki (director of Kapu Kapu assisted living facility/writer of theater)
14:10 – 14:45	Keynote talk (2): Words and expression engendered by NPO cocoroom Speaker: Kanayo Ueda (poet / representative of NPO cocoroom)
14:45 – 14:55	Break
14:55 – 15:15	Performance Performer: Madam Bonjour JohnJ (Drag queen)
15:15 – 16:15	Interactive discussion: Diversity found in “words” Moderator: Chikara Fujiwara (critic, orangcosong art collective artist) Speakers: Reiji Suzuki, Kanayo Ueda, Katsuhiko Hibino (TURN Supervisor/artist/ Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts & Professor, Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts)
16:15 – 16:30	TURN developments for 2020 Speakers: Katsuhiko Hibino, Tsukasa Mori (TURN Project Director)

Guests

Reiji Suzuki
(director of Kapu Kapu assisted living facility/writer of theater)

Kanayo Ueda
(poet / representative of NPO cocoroom)

Chikara Fujiwara
(critic, orangcosong art collective artist)

Madam Bonjour JohnJ
(Drag queen)

Access

JR Line	About a 10 min. walk From either “Ueno (Park exit)” or “Uguisudani” stations.
Subway	About a 15 min. walk From “Ueno” station on the Ginza and Hibiya subway lines. About a 10 min. walk From “Nezu” station on the Chiyoda subway line.
Keisei Electric Railway	About a 15 min. walk From “Keisei-Ueno” station on the Keisei electric railway.
Toei Bus	About a 3 min. walk From “Yanaka” bus stop on the Toei Bus(26 Kameido-Ueno Park).

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