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Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future
Let’s Read Picture Books
2019.10.20(Sun.)
A program featuring storybook readings and hand games, as well as chances to see artworks, explore the museum, and create things. From small children to adults, everyone is welcome.
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- Kid’s Studio Programs
Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
October weekends and holidays
“Hands On Marubi!,” a vacation-time program for elementary school kids and their families, lets children create art and get familiar with art materials and techniques. People with small children can relax at “Suku Suku Station,” a playroom open Tuesdays - Fridays.
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Aperto 11 KUNO Ayako Metamorphoses of the City
Let’s Read Picture Books
2019.9.16(Mon.)
A program featuring storybook readings and hand games, as well as chances to see artworks, explore the museum, and create things. From small children to adults, everyone is welcome.
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Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness
Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness workshop "Export / import"
2017.10.12(Thu.) - 2017.10.15(Sun.)
Export/import is a project created by Danish textile designer Rosa Tolnov Clausen at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa on the occasion of celebrating 150 years of diplomatic relations connecting Japan and Denmark.
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Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness
HENRIK VIBSKOV Performance
2017.10.9(Mon.)
Henrik Vibskov will perform improvisation related his installation "The Repetitive Clean". *The program may be subject to change owing to circumstances. Visitors can enter for this event to the Museum gallery of "Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness" after 16:00. The improvisation event will be permitted by the first visitors, advance reservations not required.Visitors will be closed when the capacity is reached.
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Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness
TALK SERIES VOL. 6 David Sim “Making Cities for People”
2017.10.6(Fri.)
Gehl work round the world making towns and cities better places for people to live, putting the value of public life and public space on the agenda. Building on the legacy of the Danish architect Jan Gehl, they always strive to find the human dimension in planning, architecture and design. Gehl work in many different cultures and climates, different political and socio-economic contexts, but they always start by putting the human experience at the centre of every situation. David Sim will introduce the Gehl philosophy, some of the unique methods and tools they use, as well as present some case studies from the Gehl portfolio, demonstrating how these “pragmatic idealistics” have made cities for people.
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Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness
TALK SERIES VOL. 5 Christian Holmsted Olesen “Danish Design – an international idiom”
2017.9.22(Fri.)
*This lecture was suspended due to the lecturer’s personal reason. The series of talks will cover an interdisciplinary selection of topics across the fields of design, education, medical care and urban planning with a view to deepening the understanding of the exhibition. Danish Design – an international idiom 1949 American journalists began to write about Danish Design. The American avant-garde wanted to return to the good old days – and this made the quality craft products from the old and not overly advanced agricultural nation, Denmark, quite popular. Danish Design became an international brand. But what characterizes Danish Design from the past and today? The Danish designer Hans J. Wegner described the essence of Danish design as a purification process. By this he meant that designers were building on a long-standing tradition which they continually cultivated and refined. No other nation in the world has had a similar focus on studying older objects and developing them into contemporary objects. Forms from other cultures, especially Japanese culture, informed the development of what gradually became a highly cultivated design society, where every space and object, private as well as public, essentially shows the influence of virtues from tradition and crafts. Perhaps that is why Danish design is often said to be timeless or, at least, durable. It rests on a long-standing tradition.
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Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness
TALK SERIES VOL. 4 Omoto Aya “Future of Danish and Japanese design education”
2017.9.16(Sat.)
The series of talks will cover an interdisciplinary selection of topics across the fields of design, education, medical care and urban planning with a view to deepening the understanding of the exhibition. *Japanese only
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Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness
TALK SERIES VOL. 3 Kuribayashi-Shigetomi Kaori “Folding Cells? -Applications in a medical field of origami-”
2017.9.15(Fri.)
The series of talks will cover an interdisciplinary selection of topics across the fields of design, education, medical care and urban planning with a view to deepening the understanding of the exhibition. *Japanese only
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Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness
TALK SERIES VOL. 1 Hara Kenya “Sophistication of the frontier - simplicity of Japan and Denmark”
2017.8.5(Sat.)
The series of talks will cover an interdisciplinary selection of topics across the fields of design, education, medical care and urban planning with a view to deepening the understanding of the exhibition. *Japanese only
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Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness
TALK SERIES VOL. 2 Louise Campbell “In search of a suitable pace- the challenges of being a walker in a time of runners”
2017.8.5(Sat.)
The series of talks will cover an interdisciplinary selection of topics across the fields of design, education, medical care and urban planning with a view to deepening the understanding of the exhibition.
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The Contemporary 2 Who interprets the world?
pUN General Assembly
2015.12.5(Sat.) - 2015.12.6(Sun.)
Mexican artist Pedro Reyes’s project: pUN General Assembly (December 5-6, 2015) is an experimental gathering of volunteer citizen-delegates from as many of the participants and observer states of People's United Nations (pUN) as possible. Unlike the real United Nations, where delegates are appointed by states and are career diplomats, the people’s UN enlists regular citizens who live in the local area and are connected by family ties or by birth to the nations represented at the UN. Participants engaged in activities in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa that test Reyes’s hypothesis that conflict-resolution techniques used in social psychology, theater, and art can help solve the world’s most challenging problems, from climate change to food shortages. Over the course of two days, this group used theater games, group therapy, and techniques from social science to grapple with a set of urgent and sometimes unexpected proposals. Playfulness, humor, and experimentation are strategies that allow for creative solutions and imagining a better future. pUN General Assembly movie Please click here for jumping to Japanese page
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“Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde” Special Film Screening
Pepperminta directed by Pipilotti RIST
2013.3.16(Sat.) - 2013.3.17(Sun.)
In a fantasic and fairy-tale style, the film tells a story in which Pepperminta, the protagonist characterized as "an anarchist of the imagination," attempts to realize a more humane world by bringing miracles and amazements. This is Pipilotti Rist's first feature-length movie presented in a smooth camerawork and rich colors, and the pop-style music is done by Anders Guggisberg who has participated in the creation of Rist's works since the beginning of her career.
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"Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde" Related Program
SUZUKI Hiraku Live Drawing
2013.1.26(Sat.)
There’s a kind of “place” and a kind of “time” that only come into being when I draw. Coming back to the same place, I find another time flowing there, or the time is the same, but something is happening in another place. To engage with the “here and now” often means imagining another place and another time. SUZUKI Hiraku Hiraku Suzuki will walk about the museum. Stopping at different places at different times, he will spread paper and start drawing. Musician UENO Takashi Ueno be a guest musician. Their impromptu actions, occurring at random times in random places, will intersect with the space-time of the exhibition. We invite you to tour the museum and endeavor to discover their creative actions.
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Silent Echoes: Collection Exhibition II
Exhibition Closing Event – Book Reading
2012.4.8(Sun.)
Book: Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Mariner Books Reader: Sarah Forbes, Daisuke Murata (The reading will be both in English and Japanese)
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"Peter McDonald: Visitor" Related Programs
Spiral – Amit Roy: Indian Classical Music Live
2012.3.11(Sun.)
An encounter between the Indian classical melodies of Amit Roy and the painting installation Disco.
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"Peter McDonald: Visitor" Related Programs
Masking Painting – Disappearing Lines and Emerging Shapes
2012.3.3(Sat.)
Painting, erasing, sticking on, peeling off, hiding, appearing... Masking tape can be used in all sorts of ways to create a picture. What forms will start to appear?
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"Peter McDonald: Visitor" Related Programs
Studio Disco: Panorama painting – painting and connecting in Disco
2012.2.26(Sun.)
A picture jointly painted by participants on a large transparent sheet and paintings by individual participants on smaller sheets will be overlaid on Peter McDonald's giant mural. What landscapes will emerge when these different realms intersect? Come along and enjoy Disco's panoramic world.
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"Peter McDonald: Visitor" Related Programs
Make An Other Head!
2012.2.25(Sat.)
What shape is your head? Don the new head you make, and play, in Peter McDonald’s “Disco”!
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"Peter McDonald: Visitor" Related Programs
Special Performance: Circulation – Circulating Landscape
2012.2.19(Sun.)
Dancer Nakanishi Yuko will present in the form of a special performance an encounter with the world of Peter McDonald’s painting. The workshop “Other Head Other Body” was run by professionals in Noh, modern ballet and yoga, using McDonald’s vast mural Disco as the setting. Study Group and improv session will result in the emergence of a new realm fusing painting, sound, and the physical body.
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along with “Peter McDonald: Visitor – Disco”
Art library program: Reading Picture Book
2012.1.14(Sat.)
1. Counting song “Hitotsu hito yori ookii atama” 2. Nursery rhymes “Bozu bozu” “Katadon-hijidon” “Santoichi-ni” 3. Picture book “Yama no disuko” (Mountain Disco) Kakuusha Nursery rhymes and the picture book will be read aloud amid Peter McDonald’s work, in conjunction with viewing of the work.
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"Peter McDonald: Visitor" Related Programs
Make An O t h e r Head!
2011.12.18(Sun.)
What shape is your head? Don the new head you make, and play, in Peter McDonald’s “Disco”!
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"Peter McDonald: Visitor" Related Programs
Make An O t h e r Head!
2011.12.10(Sat.)
What shape is your head? Don the new head you make, and play, in Peter McDonald’s “Disco”!
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along with “Peter McDonald: Visitor – Salon”
Art library program: Reading Picture Book
2011.11.26(Sat.)
・"Little Blue and Little Yellow", Leo Leonni, Japanese translation by Fujita Tamao, Shikosha ・"The Quiet Noisy Book", Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard, Dowakan Publishing
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along with “Peter McDonald: Visitor – Disco”
Art library program: Reading Picture Book
2011.10.22(Sat.)
1. Counting song “Hitotsu hito yori ookii atama” 2. Nursery rhymes “Bozu bozu” “Katadon-hijidon” “Santoichi-ni” 3. Picture book “Yama no disuko” (Mountain Disco) Kakuusha Nursery rhymes and the picture book will be read aloud amid Peter McDonald’s work, in conjunction with viewing of the work.
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along with “Peter McDonald: Visitor – Disco”
Art library program: Reading Picture Book
2011.9.19(Mon.)
1. Counting song “Hitotsu hito yori ookii atama” 2. Nursery rhymes “Bozu bozu” “Katadon-hijidon” “Santoichi-ni” 3. Picture book “Yama no disuko” (Mountain Disco) Kakuusha Nursery rhymes and the picture book will be read aloud amid Peter McDonald’s work, in conjunction with viewing of the work.
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along with “Peter McDonald: Visitor – Disco”
Art library program: Reading Picture Book
2011.8.7(Sun.)
1. Counting song “Hitotsu hito yori ookii atama” 2. Nursery rhymes “Bozu bozu” “Katadon-hijidon” “Santoichi-ni” 3. Picture book “Yama no disuko” (Mountain Disco) Kakuusha Nursery rhymes and the picture book will be read aloud amid Peter McDonald’s work, in conjunction with viewing of the work.
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along with “Peter McDonald: Visitor – Disco”
Art library program: Reading Picture Book
2011.8.6(Sat.)
1. Counting song “Hitotsu hito yori ookii atama” 2. Nursery rhymes “Bozu bozu” “Katadon-hijidon” “Santoichi-ni” 3. Picture book “Yama no disuko” (Mountain Disco) Kakuusha Nursery rhymes and the picture book will be read aloud amid Peter McDonald’s work, in conjunction with viewing of the work.
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Collection Exhibition-related Event
Let’s Read Picture Books
2010.3.27(Sat.)
Participants enjoy readings of picture books chosen for their relationship to the Collection Exhibition theme and viewing some of the works in the show.
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Collection Exhibition-related Event
Let’s Read Picture Books
2010.2.6(Sat.)
Participants enjoy readings of picture books chosen for their relationship to the Collection Exhibition theme and viewing some of the works in the show.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2010.1.30(Sat.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2010.1.23(Sat.) - 2010.1.24(Sun.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2010.1.16(Sat.) - 2010.1.17(Sun.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2010.1.9(Sat.) - 2010.1.11(Mon.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.12.26(Sat.) - 2009.12.27(Sun.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.12.23(Wed.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.12.19(Sat.) - 2009.12.20(Sun.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.12.12(Sat.) - 2009.12.13(Sun.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.12.5(Sat.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Collection Exhibition-related Event
Let’s Read Picture Books
2009.11.7(Sat.)
Participants enjoy readings of picture books chosen for their relationship to the Collection Exhibition theme and viewing some of the works in the show.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.10.31(Sat.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.10.24(Sat.) - 2009.10.25(Sun.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.10.17(Sat.) - 2009.10.18(Sun.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.10.12(Mon.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.
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Collection Exhibition-related Event
Let’s Read Picture Books
2009.10.10(Sat.)
Participants enjoy readings of picture books chosen for their relationship to the Collection Exhibition theme and viewing some of the works in the show.
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Kids Studio Program “Hands On Marubi!”
Playroom “Let’s Play with Shapes!”
2009.10.4(Sun.)
A space where children and adults can play together. Through different play activities and original programs of the Museum, participants can create a new world of shapes.