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General outline of the conference
Date:

Friday, Sept 4 ～ Sunday, Sept 6
Place:

Kannai Hall / Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall / Yokohama Creative City Centre and others
Event Organizers:

Creative City International Conference 2009 in Yokohama Organizing Committee / The City of Yokohama / Yokohama Arts Foundation / Yokohama Creative City Promotion Council

Co-organizer:
British Council
Supporters:
Agency for Cultural Affairs / Kanagawa Prefecture / NHK Yokohama Broadcasting Office / Kanagawa Newspaper Company / Association for Corporate Support of the Arts / Japan Foundation / tvk (Television Kanagawa) / Tokyo University of the Arts / Yokohama National University / Yokohama Chamber of Commerce and Industry / The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of FrontierScience / Yokohama City University others
Expected cities:
Japanese and foreign creative cities, about 30 cities developing and promoting a creative city approach (6 cities that are ahead in terms of creativity, and have the potential to engage in exchanges on a regular basis will also be invited)
Number of
participants expected:
approximately 2000 persons in total
Participation fees:
3000 yens for regular participants, 2500 yens for students

Schedule

Event type

Content

Place
Thursday, Sept 3, 2009
18:30-19:30
Previous event

“Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music Philharmonic”

Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall - Main Hall

Friday, Sept 4, 2009
13:30-15:00
Keynote Address
Sir Peter Hall
Kannai Main Hall
15:30-18:00
Panel Discussion 1
“The social system and its transformations”
18:30-20:00
Reception
Participants' reception
“Participation fee : 2000 yens”
Yokohama Creative City Center (200)
Saturday, Sept 5, 2009
10:00-13:00
Working group
Session 1

Working group (1) I - 1
Working group (2) II - 1
Working group(3) III - 1 

- Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall (481)
Conference room (110)

- Yokohama Creative City Centre  (1F 160, 3F 160)
14:00-17:30
Working group
Session 2

Working group (1) I - 2
Working group (2) II - 2
Working group (3) III - 2

Sunday, Sept 6, 2009
10:00-12:00
Panel Discussion 2
“Talking about the future of cities” (Mayoral Conference)
Kannai Main Hall (1100)
13:30-16:00
Plenary meeting

Declaration of the conference

Closing of the Conference

Related Events

Name

Details
Creative City International Conference in Yokohama 2009:
Opening event “Concert by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Tokyo University of the Arts”
Time:
Thursday Sept 3 (18:30)
Place:
Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall (Main Hall)
Organizer:
Tokyo University of the Arts / Yokohama City
“Let's Unite! Arts Initiatives part 2”
Presentation of the activities of Japanese and foreign NPOs which develop creative projects by making use of historic buildings
Time:
Friday Sept 4 (am) / Saturday Sept 5 (19:00 - Midnight)
Place:
BankART Studio NYK

“Kannai-Gai OPEN!” (Open studios)
Public opening of creators and artists’ studios in Yokohama City centre - With lectures and tours
Time:
Friday, Sept 4 - Sunday, Sept 6
Organizer:
Yokohama Creative City Center
Mother Port Art Festival 2009
Art Events to be expanded from the centre to the whole Mother Port Area
◎ La Belle Zanka - “Noh’s Enchanted breath onto the moon” - (Aug 29 - Aug 30)
◎ “The memory of the City in Nihon-Oodori” Hotchpotch music festival
(Sept 5 / 13 / 26 /27)
◎ JAZZ meets JAPAN - an encounter between Jazz and Traditional Japanese Music (Sept, 13)
Organizer:
Mother Port Art Festival Organizing
Committee
Streetwise Opera
Music and film installation and workshops by the UK charity, Streetwise Opera, who uses music as a tool to help people who have experienced homelessness move forward in their lives.
◎ Workshops (Sept 2 - Sept 3)
- Kotobukicho area and Yokohama Creative City Center
Organizer:
British Council / Kotolab.LCC
◎ "My Secret Heat" installation (Sept 5 - Sept, 9 -Red Brick Warehouse N°1, 3rd Floor Hall)
Organizer:
Mother Port Art Festival Organizing
Committee / British Council
Yokohama Creative Neighborhoods ART WEEKS
Development of artistic projects in the very heart of Yokohama, making use of the creative neighborhoods
◎ Koganecho Bazaar 2009 (Sept, 1 - Sept, 27 - Koganecho Area)
Lecture meeting by Margaret Shiu (Sept, 2)
◎ ZAIM Gallery (Sept,2 - Sept13 , Sept, 16 - Sept, 27- ZAIM)
◎ MIRRORBOWLING (Sept, 3 - Sept 29 - Creative Space 9001)
◎ “Zoo Zoo Scene” (Theatre performance)
(Sept 25 - Sept 27 - Steep Slope Studio / Nogeyama Zoological Gardens)
Third Conference for Cultural Dialogue between French and Japanese Cities
Time:
Thursday Sept 3
Venue:
Yokohama Creative City Center
Organizer:
The City of Yokohama / The City of Lyon
Creative Cities of Culture and Art Network Conference - Agency of Cultural Affairs
Time:
Sep 5. 18:50-20:50
 
Venue:
Yokohama Creativecity Center 3F Space
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