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“Get to Know the Yokohama Performing Arts Meet-up Through a Live Performance”

 

Local performing artist P Cube will host a performance event and share his experience of participating in the Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting (YPAM) 2025, which he attended last year with the support of the Japan Foundation, Yangon. The event will take place on Saturday, 7 February.

 

Participants will have the opportunity to enjoy a contemporary performance by a local artist and hear firsthand about P Cube’s journey and experiences at YPAM 2025. The event is free and open to everyone, but due to limited capacity, we kindly ask you to register only if you are sure you can attend.

 

To Register: Same Same But Different – Fill out form

 

Date: 7 February 2026 (Saturday)

Time: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Location: Hall, The Japan Foundation, Yangon

No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane 1, Bahan Township

Nearest Bus Stop: Byine Yay Oh Sin (YBS No. 43, 64, 80)

 

Note: We regret that parking space is not available for participants.

It is the New Year again, and as usual, the Japan Foundation, Yangon will host a Japanese traditional calligraphy workshop and a mochi-making event on Saturday, January 17th, 2026.
Both activities will take place on the same day at different times. You may register for either event using the links provided in the related photos below. Registration is free and on a first-come, first-served. Please register only if you are certain you can attend. We will close the forms once the capacity is full.
Let’s welcome the New Year together with calligraphy practice, mochi making, and Japanese traditional toys at JFYG!
Capacity: 100 participants for each event
Date: 17 January 2026 (Sat)


Time (Calligraphy): 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Registration link: Shodo ဂျပန်ရိုးရာလက်ရေးလှရေးသားခြင်း – Fill out form
Note: Japan Foundation Yangon will not be contacting you by phone as before. All registered participants will be able to attend, and the form will be closed once the number of participants has been reached.

 

Time (Mochi Making): 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Registration Link: Mochitsuki – ဂျပန်ရိုးရာမိုချီပြုလုပ်ခြင်း – Fill out form
Note: Japan Foundation Yangon will not be contacting you by phone as before. All registered participants will be able to attend, and the form will be closed once the number of participants has been reached.

Venue: The Japan Foundation, Yangon (No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane 1, Bahan Township)
Nearest Bus Stop: Byaing Yay Oe Zin Bus Stop
Bus Numbers: 43, 64, 80
Note: No parking available.
#2026 #JFYG #NewYearEvent #JapanFoundation #JapanFoundationYangon

Origami is a traditional Japanese art in which paper is folded into charming figures and objects. It has been a long time since we last held an origami workshop, so The Japan Foundation, Yangon will host a new Origami Workshop on Saturday, 20 December. Let’s enjoy making origami together during this joyful year-end season.
Albee Art Store will collaborate with us for this event, and participation will be limited. You may register freely using the link below, but only 30 participants will be selected. We will contact the selected participants to confirm their attendance.
Registration Link:Folding Heritage : Japanese Origami Workshop – Fill out form

Capacity: 30 participants
Date: 20 December 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Yangon (No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane 1, Bahan Township)
Nearest Bus Stop: Byaing Yay Oe Zin Bus Stop
Bus Numbers: 43, 64, 80
Note: There is no parking available.

“Let’s learn about recycling Food Waste while watching a film with JFYG!”
The Japan Foundation’s free online movie platform, JFF Theater, is now streaming “Mottainai Kitchen” , a thought-provoking film that explores how we can reduce and reuse food waste in our daily lives.
To Watch JFF Theater – https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/
The Japan Foundation, Yangon will also host a special screening of “Mottainai Kitchen.” After the film, a representative from Bokashi Myanmar will give a presentation on how to recycle food waste from your kitchen into something useful and have a group discussion with participants.
If you’d like to join us for this free event and learn more about food waste and sustainability, please register using the link below. Please note that only those who receive a confirmation from the Japan Foundation, Yangon will be able to attend.
To register: “အစားအစာပြုန်းတီးမှုကိုလျှော့ချဖို့ JFYG နဲ့အတူ ရုပ်ရှင်ကြည့်ရင်း လေ့လာစို့” – Fill out form
Date: 22 November 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Capacity – 50 people (Maximum)
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Yangon (Hall)
No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane 1, Bahan Township
Bus Numbers: 43, 64, 80
Note: Parking is not available for visitors.
#JapaneseFilmFestival #JFFT #JFFTheater #JapanFoundation #JapanFoundationYangon #MottainaiKitchen #BokashiMyanmar #FoodWaste #Film #Event

ယခုပြပွဲမှာ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံရဲ့ Yokai လို့ခေါ်တဲ့ စိတ်ကူးယဉ် တစ္ဆေသရဲတွေအကြောင်း ယဉ်ကျေးမှုအား စာရွက်ပေလွှာများ၊ နိရှိကိအဲ ရောင်စုံသစ်ထွင်းပန်းချီများမှတဆင့် အရုပ်တွေ၊ ရုပ်ရှင်တွေဖြစ်လာတဲ့ထိ ယနေ့ခေတ်ထိ လက်ဆင့်ကမ်းသယ်ဆောင်လာပုံကို စုံလင်စွာ မိတ်ဆက်ထားပါတယ်။ 

ဂျပန် Yokai တွေဟာ ပုံဝတ္ထုများစွာထဲမှာ သဘာဝလွန်စွမ်းအားတွေ ပိုင်ဆိုင်တဲ့ ဇာတ်ကောင်များအဖြစ် ပါဝင်ခဲ့ကြပြီး နားဆင်သူတွေကို အံ့သြထိတ်လန့်အောင် စွမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။ အဲ့ဒီနောက် နည်းပညာတွေ တိုးတက်လာပြီး လူသားတွေရဲ့ နေထိုင်မှုဘဝပြောင်းလဲလာချိန်မှာတော့ Yokai တွေဟာ ကြောက်စရာအရာ ဆိုတာထက် ပိုပြီး ရင်းနှီးနှစ်လိုဖွယ်အဖြစ်သို့ တဖြေးဖြေး ပြောင်းသွားခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံမှာ ကအိဒန် (Kaidan) လို့ခေါ်တဲ့ တစ္ဆေပုံပြင်တွေကို နွေရာသီမှာ ပြောဆိုနားဆင်တဲ့ ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဓလေ့ရှိနေဆဲဖြစ်ပြီး နိုင်ငံတဝှမ်းက ပြဇာတ်ရုံတွေ၊ ရုပ်သံဇာတ်ကားတွေမှာလည်း Yokai ကို မြင်တွေ့နေရတုန်းပါပဲ။ ယခုပြပွဲက ဒီ Yokai တွေရဲ့ လူကြိုက်များမှုကို မီးမောင်းထိုးပြထားပြီး လာရောက်ကြည့်ရှုသူတွေအနေနဲ့ သူတို့ရဲ့ ခိုင်မာစွာတည်ရှိတဲ့ ဆန်းကြယ်ကမ္ဘာကို လေ့လာနိုင်မှာပါ။ အခုပြပွဲအတွက် အချက်အလက်တွေကို အောက်မှာ အသေးစိတ်ကြည့်ရှုနိုင်ပါတယ်။ 

**ဝင်ကြေးအခမဲ့** 

ပြပွဲကာလ – ၂၀၂၅ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁ ရက်မှ မတ်လ ၁ ရက်ထိ (တနင်္ဂနွေ၊ တနင်္လာနှင့် အများပြည်သူပိတ်ရက်များ မဖွင့်ပါ)  

ပြပွဲအချိန် – နေ့စဉ် မနက် ၉ နာရီခွဲမှ ညနေ ၃ နာရီခွဲထိ  

ပြပွဲနေရာ – ဂျပန်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်း၊ ရန်ကုန်။ အမှတ် ၇၀၊ နတ်မောက်လမ်းသွယ် ၁၊ ဗဟန်း၊ ရန်ကုန်။ 

Sponsor: ဂျပန်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်း၊ ရန်ကုန် 

Nominal Support: မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ဂျပန်သံရုံး   

လက်ရှိဂျပန်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းရန်ကုန်တွင် ပြုလုပ်ကျင်းပရန်စီစဉ်ထားသော ယာကိရှိမဲ မြေထည်လက်ရာပြပွဲအစီအစဉ်၏ ခေါင်းစဉ်ကွဲတစ်ခုဖြစ်သော Yakishime And Washoku ခေါင်းစဉ်အောက်တွင် ဂျပန်၏ထင်ရှားသော ယဉ်ကျေးမှုအမွေအနှစ်တစ်ခုဖြစ်သည့် ဝရှောခု ဟင်းလျာများကို တည်ခင်းရာတွင် အသုံးပြုသော ယာကီရှိမဲ မြေထည် ပန်းကန်ခွက်ယောက်များကိုလည်း ထည့်သွင်းပြသထားပါသည်။ အဆိုပါ မြေအိုးနှင့် ပန်းကန်တို့ကို အသုံးပြုပြီး Hayami san မှ ဂျပန်ဟင်းလျာများကို ချက်ပြုတ်ခြင်းနှင့် ပတ်သတ်၍ ဆွေးနွေးသွားမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး ဂျပန်ရိုးရာ dobin mushi ဟင်းရည်ကိုလည်း ချက်ပြုတ်ပြသသွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ၏ စားသောက်ဆိုင်လုပ်ငန်းများတွင် သွားရောက်လုပ်ကိုင်လိုသူများအနေဖြင့် ဂျပန်ဟင်းလျာများကို တည်ခင်းရာတွင် အသုံးပြုသော ယာကီရှိမဲ အိုးခွက်ပန်းကန်များနှင့် ပတ်သတ်၍ ဗဟုသုတများစွာရရှိစေမည့် အစီအစဉ်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

အစီအစဉ် အသေးစိတ်

အချိန် ။ ။ နေ့လည် ၂ နာရီမှ ၄ နာရီအထိ
နေ့ရက် ။ ။ ဇူလိုင်လ ၂၂ ရက်နေ့ (စနေနေ့)၊ ၂ဝ၂၃

နေရာ ။ ။ ဂျပန်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းရန်ကုန်၊ ဂျပန်ယဉ်ကျေးမှုစင်တာ

အမှတ် (၇ဝ)၊ နတ်မောက်လမ်းသွယ် (၁)၊ ဗဟန်းမြို့နယ်၊ ရန်ကုန်

စိတ်ပါဝင်စားသူများအနေဖြင့် အောက်ပါလင့်မှတစ်ဆင့်ကြိုတင်စာရင်းပေးသွင်းသွားရမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

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“Yakishime as Tea Wares” is the one of the sections of Yakishime travelling exhibition. Under this title, the teapot, teacup and other tea wares, which are essential objects of famous Japanese Tea Ceremony Sado, are going to be exhibited. Moreover, we also plan to organize talk session about the history and the roles of Yakishime in Tea Ceremony. The talk session will be led by a Japanese Ms. Hyodo and if you have interest to join, please do the registration from the below link. After the talk session we will treat all the guests who participate with Japanese green Tea matcha.
Program details
Date: 15 July, 2023 (Saturday)
Time: 10 am to 11 am
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Yangon
No.70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township
Register here: https://forms.gle/QyMjQTcRSnAFhZ6d7

One of the three sections of YAKISHIME – Earth Metamorphosis” travelling exhibition is “Yakishime as Objets d’art” and it introduces the contemporary Yakishime objects created by Japanese artists.
A recent development is the emergence of artists who are creating yakishime wares of unglazed porcelain clay, in addition to works in the Bizen and other traditions. The final section of this exhibition introduces yakishime objets that have departed from the vessel form to develop in a variety of styles.

The transition of daily used earthen wares to art works is the main concept in this section. As the material condition and living standards of human developed throughout the history, the cultural value of earthen wares has transcended from daily used objects to artistic objects.

During the exhibition period, the Japan Foundation, Yangon has invited Ms. Soe Yu Nwe, a Myanmar ceramic artist to a talk session. Soe Yu will share her thoughts on the contrast between the traditional wabi-sabi concept and modern, contemporary experimental and minimalistic art concept of Yakishime objects.

Prior registration is required to join the talk event because of limited number of participants.
Program details
Date: 15 July, 2023 (Saturday)
Time: 2 pm to 3 pm
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Yangon
No.70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township
Register here: https://forms.gle/ThJH5BfbS1ytZuGd6

‘YAKHISHIME — Earth Metamorphosis’
Travelling Exhibition“Yakishime” (焼締) can literally be defined as the materials (clay or wood) would become tightly bound and molded together (i.e., vitrify) when being fired openly and it is derived from the verb called “Yakishimeru” （焼き締める）. Just as all the things in universe are composed with four basic elements (air, fire, earth and water), Japanese Yakishime earthen wares are the metamorphosis of earth when the earth element (soil) is combined with water element (water) to become the clay, later to be molded by fire element (when being fired) and finally cooled in the air (air element) to transform as the table wares, utensils and art works that we see today.

‘YAKHISHIME — Earth Metamorphosis’ travelling exhibition mainly focuses on a ceramic technique called ‘yakishime’, firing the earthen wares at high temperatures without glazing them. The earliest known yakishime wares date to the fourth or fifth centuries. It was in the twelfth through the seventeenth centuries, however, that this technique became solidly established and used in a substantial part of the production at major ceramic centers in Japan, including Bizen, Shigaraki, and Tokoname.

Since the history of mankind, earthen tablewares were an indispensable part of everyday life of people. When men had complete understanding about the natural resources in their environment and habitat, they started to create and utilize objects along with the development of material conditions of living standard. Tea pots and tea cups which are an essential part of material in Japanese tea culture called Sado (茶道)and the tea wares produced with Yakishime technique are just as the table wares that served with Japanese traditional cuisine called washoku (和食). Throughout the history, those daily earthen table wares, utensils, tea wares have slowly transformed their conventional utilization into detailed, contemporary art works (non-utilitarian objects).

In this exhibition, we will display various Yakishime objects and art works from traditional Yakishime wares with a concept of wabi-sabi (the art of imperfection) to modern, minimalistic and experimental Yakishime art works by contemporary Japanese ceramics artists.

Exhibition Details

Time: 9 am to 4 pm

Dates: from 12 to 29 July (closed on Monday and Tuesday)

Venue: The Japan Foundation, Yangon, No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan township, Yangon

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