Japan days in Kaunas WA

Studio “One Drop Dzen”, Drobės fabrikas, IV floor, Drobės st. 62 – free event with advance registration at: [email protected]

Kaunas Education Innovations Center, Vytauto av. 44 –  free event with registration advance registration at:  https://forms.gle/XLZ9fx5ALifsipHP7

Event presented by: Kaunas City Municipality, Kaunas Education Innovations Center.

The schools and all residents of Kaunas are invited to learn the Japanese dance “Tanabata-Odori“, which will be performed at the joint flashmob in Unity square.

Free event. Duration – 15 min. All who want to learn the dance in advance should register at: https://forms.gle/sUN1FVF8PPjwZ4Rs5

Event presented by: EU-Japan Fest, Sugihara House Museum, Kaunas 2022

Sugihara House Museum, Vaižganto st. 30 – Closed event with invitations only.

Exhibition will be open for visitors from May 2 to August 31 – visiting with museum tickets.

Event presented by: EU-Japan Fest, Vytautas Magnus University, Gifu prefecture (Japan), Kaunas City Municipality, Kaunas 2022

VMU, Grand hall, S. Daukanto st. 29 – free event, open for the public without advance registration.

Event presented by Kaunas Education Innovations Center, Hiratsuka city (Japan)

Free online event with advance registration at: https://forms.gle/zt1SbULaYdsA85mv6

Event presented by Kaunas Education Innovations Center, Hiratsuka city (Japan)

Free online event with advance registration at: https://forms.gle/eWta6LHxxs7V44Yu9

Event presented by the Embassy of Japan in Lithuania

Forum Cinemas, Akropolis, K. Mindaugo av. 49 – free tickets will be available 1 hour before the start at the cinema box office.

Event presented by EU-Japan Fest and Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library.

Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library, Daukanto st. 25  – free event. Exhibition will be open from April 03 to May 31 on working days 10-16 h – visiting with museum tickets.

The purpose of the conference is to encourage Lithuanian and Japanese students’ interest in the world around them, to pay attention to the social, cultural, civil and environmental problems of their cities, states and global society. As well as to reveal the possibilities of sustainable development and the importance of intercultural knowledge and tolerance.

Organizers: Kaunas Education Innovation Center, VMU Centre for Asian Studies, Kaunas Jurgis Dobkevičius Progymnasium, Druskininkai “Atgimimo“ School.

VMU Center for Asian Studies, V. Putvinskio st. 23

Registration for 3-12 year students and teachers before April 21 at:: https://forms.gle/AoDxU5rGF7A28yat9

Sugihara House Museum, Vaižganto st. 30 – only with tickets, registration at: [email protected]

VMU Centre for Asian Studies, V. Putvinskio st. 23, 106 auditorium – free event, no advance registration needed.

Hiroaki Umeda is a choreographer and a multidisciplinary artist now recognized as one of the leading figures of the Japanese avant-garde art scene. The place where he transports the public through his performance appears to be a parallel universe. A completely dark space where the audience and the artist’s body are to be found. On the wall and on the floor, virtual graphic images take the shape of organic particles. Accompanied by electronic sound, they come to life by synchronizing with the human body. The stage transforms into a place where the boundary separating human and digital reality is blurred.

Event presented by: EU-Japan Fest, Autotoja, Toyota Dealership in Kaunas, Kaunas City Municipality.

“Romuva” cinema, grand hall, Laisvės av. 54 – only with tickets.

Tickets: https://www.bilietai.lt/lit/renginiai/festivaliai/japonijos-dienos-kaune-wa–hiroaki-umeda-spektaklis-intensyvioji-dalele-388475/

Sugihara House Museum, Vaižganto st. 30 – only with tickets, registration at: [email protected]

Sugihara House Museum, Vaižganto st. 30 – only with tickets, registration at: [email protected]

It is a contemporary performance focused on suppressed inner emotions by Berlin

based Japanese choreographer Keisuke Sugawara. The idea was inspired by the Japanese idiom “HIKA-KOUGAI (悲歌慷慨)”, which means sadness-ridden inner anger at the evils of the times and one’s own failures. In Japanese culture, modesty and protecting other people’s feelings is the highest value, instilled from an early age, but how much unspilled emotion is buried inside to protect others? How do we experience anger in society? Can we capture a phenomenon that is happening in our bodies that is difficult to recognise?

Event presented by EU-Japan Fest

Kaunas House of Artists, V. Putvinskio st. 56 – only with tickets

Tickets: https://www.bilietai.lt/lit/renginiai/festivaliai/japonijos-dienos-kaune-wa–keisuke-sugawara-spektaklis-neisgirstas-388479/

Event presented by: Embassy of Japan in Lithuania, EU-Japan Fest, Kaunas City Municipality. 

“Romuva” cinema, grand hall, Laisvės av. 54 – free event, no advance registration needed.

Exhibition presented by: EU-Japan Fest, Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library and Embassy of Japan in Lithuania.

Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library, Daukanto st. 25  

Visiting on working days at 10-16 h, with museum tickets.

Hiratsuka (平塚市 = Hiratsuka-shi) is a Japanese city located in 1889 in Shionajo, on the right bank (west side) of the Sakami River, in the centre of Kanagawa Prefecture. Hiratsuka’s population currently stands at almost 260 000. The city is famous for the Tanabata Love Festival, celebrated on the 7th day of the 7th month, when, according to legend, two stars in love, Altaïr and Vega, separated by the Bird’s Footpath, may meet once a year. The city of Hiratsuka has warmly welcomed the Lithuanian Olympians for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, providing accommodation and the best training conditions. Hiratsuka and Kaunas have initiated a number of joint projects over the last few years, especially in the fields of education and culture.

Location: Laisvės av., near the fountain.

Akropolis events square, III floor, K. Mindaugo av. 49

“Romuva” cinema, grand hall, Laisvės av. 54

Visiting only during the events held at “Romuva” cinema.

Exhibition presented by: EU-Japan Fest, Sugihara House Museum.

Sugihara House Museum, Vaižganto st. 30

Visiting on working days at 10-17 h and on weekends 11-16 h., with museum tickets.