Field Trip Project Asia is an open art initiative responding to recent natural disasters.
The ultimate purpose of this project is to create awareness and provoke dialogue about various aspects of natural disasters, environments and beyond, and how they could be used to connect people and create communities through compassion and art. Social media and the fast world of digital communication are making the world a smaller place where what happens thousands of miles away affects us all in different ways, and it is crucial yet challenging to foster these physical engagements.
The project will launch in Yangon; the biggest city of Myanmar which is a nation in reformation in every sector. There are many things about social and communities’ problems; namely civil conflicts, poverty of livelihood, education and economy crisis. As many other reforming countries, Myanmar faces challenges to revitalize its people both mentally and physically to cultivate their knowledge, especially to raise in behaviors for basic humanity, ethics, sympathy and freedom from fear. Field Trip Project Asia – Myanmar will be introduced to people to re-think about their society through our mobile creations.
Field Trip Project Asia – Myanmar is co-curated by Daisuke Takeya and Aung Myat Htay (SOCA).
At the Japan Foundation Yangon, we have “Origami Club”, a regular monthly activity, where the people who are interested in Japanese origami and paper quilling can come and try new origami and paper folding methods.
This time, we will make the backpacks and very sophisticated key chains by using paper quilling method. People who love to do paper craft are very much welcome to join this event held in the Japan Foundation, Yangon. Join us to know how to make nice key chains with easy items to give as presents to loved ones. Please register via Facebook messenger to join by dropping your name and phone number not later than 12 pm on August 2.
Origami Club
Date : 3 August, 2019
Time : 10 am ~ 12 am
Place : Japan Foundation, Yangon, No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township.
Expected participants : 15 ppl (maximum) Entry : free
* The discussion and talk will only be in Japanese and Burmese.
*Organized by:
The Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japanese Government,
The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar,
The Japan Foundation, Yangon
The “Saturday Yoke Shin”, is the monthly movie screening program of The Japan Foundation, Yangon.
The entry is free, and everyone is welcome !!!!
And this month movie is “SHODO GIRLS !!”
On this month of Saturday Yoke Shin, we have chosen Director Ryuichi Inomata’s SHODO GIRLS Young
The story is about the young and adorable high school girls who are trying to save their town from economic crisis and their love for calligraphy.
Saturday Yoke Shin : Shodo Girls
Date: 13 July 2019
Venus: The Japan Foundation, Yangon
++++ Admission Free++++
Chuo City in Ehime Prefecture was known as “City of Paper” as it is the place that produces the papers of best quality in Japan. However, the city is not as prosperous as those good old days because of the long recession. There is the Shodo (Calligraphy) Club in high school and everyone have their own talent in club but lack in team’s sprit. The vice-captain, Kana spent three years in club and who have the passion to win in competition. The new transfer teacher Ekezawa become advisor of the club and his idea of drawing calligraphy with music is impressed by everyone and become a new direction to the club. And then the club join the competition under the captain Sato but suffer the failure due to weakness of team work.
Can she make the change the situation of her town ‘s economy and the calligraphy club???
And How? Just come and find out those answer on the screen of our Saturday Yoke Shin Time.
“Origami Club”, one of the well-known and popular activities of Japan Foundation, will be held on 6 July, coming Saturday. This time Sayama Hninn Si will teach how to do beautiful paper umbrella and do beautiful paper decoration by using kirigami technique. People who love to do paper craft are very much welcome to join this Origami Club held in the Japan Foundation, Yangon. Either craft master or craft learner, can enjoy this event because we will start from the very basic paper crafting to much more enjoyable advanced level crafts. Please register via Facebook messenger to join by dropping your name and phone number not later than 12 pm on July 5.
Let’s feel summer days of Japan while sinking in the beauty of photos in “Summer Days” exhibition.
As a part of our photo exhibition series, this time we are going to exhibit the beauty scenery of Japanese gardens in Summer time by the art works of famous Japanese photographer Mr. Mizuno Katsuhiko.
In this series of exhibition, we have selected photo panels which show the beauty of Japaense gardens in summer time. Anyone who come to the exhibition willl know what it’s like to be in summer in Japan. So, please find time or save time and come enjoy the photo exhibition.
About Mizuno Katsuhiko, The Photographer)
Mizuno Katsuhiko was born in the Kamigyou ward of Kyoto city in 1941. He is a graduate of the Department of Literature, Doshisha University, and he completed a postgraduate course at the Tokyo Sogo Photography College. He has specialized in photographing the scenery of Kyoto since 1969. He has also contemplated the traditional culture of Japan, and so he has continued to come forth with works in the editorial category.
In 2000, he inaugured his own photo gallery spaces, the Machiya Shashinkan or “Townhouse Photo Hall”, opening it to the public.
His Landscapes for small spaces won the gold prize in the Home & Garden category of the Fore Word 2002 Book of the Year Award, sponsored by Fore World Magazine.
He is a member of the Japan Photographers Association and the Japan Photographic Art Society.
He has had 140 books published, the majority of which have been photo collections.
Have you ever felt different when you see a person who has different culltural background? Have you even encountered any incidents where you were mistreated because your cultural values and beliefs do not coincide with the majoirty group’s cultural values and beliefs? Have you ever wondered what could be the possible solutions that can pinpoint the missing link that connect people of different religions, borders and language?
Theatre and dance performances about empathy and anitpathy facing cultural differences at “The Strangers” will make you realize the answers!
The Strangers, co-organized by the Goethe-Institut Myanamr and the Japan Foundation, Yangon, is at 3 pm on June 29 at the Goethe-Institut. The international dancers from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia will perform in collaboration with the dramaturg Julia Hesse from Germany and the director Leandro Kees from Argentina/Germany.
Please join us at the Goethe-Institut to explore the new findings about people of cultural differences and how we can find something beautiful in common amond strangers.
ဇွန်လ ၂၉ရက် ( စနေနေ့ ) နေ့လယ် ၂နာရီမှ ၃နာရီခွဲအထိ ဂျပန်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းရန်ကုန်မှာ Nihongo Club ပြုလုပ်မှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ Nihongo Club ဆိုတာက ဂျပန်လူမျိုးနဲ့ ဂျပန်လို ပျော်ရွှင်စွာ စကားစမြည်ပြောဆိုကြမယ့် အစီအစဉ်ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
ဒီတစ်ခေါက်ပြောကြမယ့် ခေါင်းစဉ်ကတော့ “ တနဘတပွဲတော် ” ပါ။ “ တနဘတပွဲတော် ” အကြောင်းလေ့လာရင်း ဂျပန်စကားပြောကျင့်ကြည့်ရအောင်။ အတူတူစကားပြောကြမယ့် ဂျပန်လူမျိုးတာဝန်ခံတွေကတော့ Nihongo Partners တွေဖြစ်တဲ့ ဆရာမ နာရဟာရ (Narahara) နဲ့ ဆရာမ မာအဲဒ (Maeda) တို့ ၂ဦးဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ အားလုံးပဲ လာရောက်ပါဝင်ကြဖို့ ဖိတ်ခေါ်ပါတယ်။
စာရင်းပေးသွင်းရန် – ဂျပန်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းရန်ကုန် FB Page ( The Japan Foundation, Yangon ) ၏ Message box သို့ အမည်၊ ဖုန်းနံပါတ်တို့ကို ပေးပို့၍ စာရင်းပေးသွင်းနိုင်ပါတယ်။ သတ်မှတ်ထားတဲ့ လူဦးရေ ပြည့်သွားတာနဲ့ စာရင်းပိတ်မှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
