The two-day programme includes lectures, workshops and shows, which will take place in a 300-seat amphitheatrical assembly hall, as well as exhibitions presented near the lecture hall. Additionally, there will be stands with books about Japan, everyday objects, Japanese crafts and art. The programme events are open to the public and the participation is free!
Schedule
26 April 2025, Saturday
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11:00 a.m. Grand opening of the event and a layer cake for the 18th edition
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12:00 p.m. Concert of the Amaterasu Drums band – Ryotaro Sakamoto, Warsaw Japanese Language School
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1:00 p.m. "Foreign" Patterns and the Cultural Identity of Japan – Prof. Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska, Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
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2:00 p.m. Japanese methods in the treatment of children and adolescents in mental crisis – Grażyna Borys, Special School Complex at the Provincial Psychiatric Treatment Complex in Olsztyn
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3:00 p.m. Furoshiki – workshops on the Japanese art of packaging almost everything – Ewa Soszko-Dziwisińska, Andrzej Wawrzyniak, The Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw
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4:00 p.m. In a Japanese onsen – dr inż. Joanna Sokołowska and Konrad Rzentarzewski, authors of the blog: "Byłem tu. Tony Halik" and the podcast: "O Japonii", Warsaw
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5:00 Judo show - players of the University Club AZS of the University of Lodz
27 April 2025, Sunday
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11:00 a.m. Chanoyu – The Art of the Japanese Tea Ceremony: A Family Meeting – Urszula Sōu Mach-Bryson, Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw; President of Stowarzyszenie Drogi Herbaty Urasenke Tankōkai Sunshinkai
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12:00 p.m. Japanese investments as a source of energy transformation in Europe – Prof. Tomasz Dorożyński, Department of International Economics, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz
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1:00 p.m. Conservation of Japanese Lacquer Objects in Polish Collections – Joanna Koryciarz-Kitamikado, Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Warsaw
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2:00 p.m. Master Hokusai and Japanese painting of the Edo period (1603-1868) – Anita Lipińska, KOKOJAPAN.PL, Yakumo-goto Club, Lodz
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3:00 p.m. "The Bridge" – a short film about Siberian children, Grand Prix Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2023 – Dr Izumi Yoshida, The Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz
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4:00 p.m. The extraordinary history of Japanese ceramics – Joanna Rajch, Amberious, Lodz
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5:00 p.m. Japanese popular culture in the age of AI – Dr Jakub Karpoluk, Faculty of New Media Arts, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw
Exhibitions: 26 - 27 April 2025
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"Kyo" – calligraphies, graphics and experimental photography, Masafumi Ryuso Koshio, Olgierd Zbychorski, Shizuoka – Warsaw
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"Delikatność i elegancja" – from the collection of Japanese dolls, Little Japan. Japanese Garden Siruwia, Sylwia and Jakub Kurowscy, Przesieka
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"Re-think Beauty" – graphics from the Wpatrzenie 2024 series – Agnieszka Głowacka, agstudio.net, Lodz
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"Magia zieleni" – bonsai trees, Dariusz Zając, Polish Bonsai Association, Lodz
