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SHIZUOKA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 5, 2020
World Theatre Festival Shizuoka heads online in desperate times
By taking a key arts festival online, Satoshi Miyagi is finding ways to ensure that theater survives the pandemic.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 19, 2018
Shizuoka stage festival aims to engage its audiences the old-fashioned way
This hasn¡¯t been a great year for social media. Internet addiction has been a hot topic, as have privacy issues, and there has even been a movement to #DeleteFacebook.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 27, 2017
The ambiguous world of today¡¯s ventriloquists
Franco-Austrian choreographer and director Gisele Vienne is fascinated by puppets and brings a group of nine ventriloquists and their marionettes to the stage in her latest piece, ¡°The Ventriloquists Convention.¡± The play is part of the World Theatre Festival Shizuoka run by Shizuoka Performing Arts...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 27, 2017
All Shizuoka¡¯s a stage for SPAC¡¯s theater festival
At a recent news conference, Satoshi Miyagi, the artistic director of Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC), gave notice of an imminent invasion ¡ª by girigirijin.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 28, 2016
Theater festival¡¯s roots dig deep into Shizuoka
In recent years, theater fans and artists here and abroad have increasingly been wakening up to the fact that cherry blossoms aren¡¯t the only spring bounty in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 2, 2015
Dramatist brings citizens of all ages together
Public theaters across the country are holding significantly more community productions and workshops aimed at local residents who are looking to get involved in performance art.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 16, 2015
Shizuoka blooms with culture at theater event
With sunlight dappling fresh green leaves, flowers in bloom and birds singing, spring and early summer is when Europeans leave their homes to enjoy the arts at great annual events such as Germany¡¯s Theatertreffen and France¡¯s Avignon Festival.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 21, 2015
Avignon chief sees culture and politics sharing the stage
¡°The Avignon Festival is not only about shows and theater, but also about thinking, searching and seeking to understand the world and its politics ¡ª and offering an opportunity for three weeks¡¯ intellectual life experience every year,¡± Olivier Py, the event¡¯s artistic director, declared with passion...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 21, 2015
French triumph frees SPAC pioneer to be bolder still
Following on Olivier Py¡¯s comment in the accompanying story that ¡°everybody¡± at last year¡¯s Avignon Festival loved Satoshi Miyagi¡¯s ¡°Mahabharata ¡ª Nalacharitam,¡± which Py, as the festival¡¯s director, had awarded the honor of opening the event, I rolled up to Shizuoka Performing Arts Center to find...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 1, 2015
Â鶹´«Ã½ artists aim to foster intra-Asia links
The subject of Â鶹´«Ã½ position in the world of Asian performing arts has been widely addressed over the past decade, and the new leadership of last year¡¯s Festival/Tokyo ¡ª its largest annual performing-arts event ¡ª vowed to step up efforts to develop collaborations and exchanges within Asia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 24, 2013
Shizuoka theater festival courts the avant-garde
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the ¡°best birthday party ever¡± when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Strong wind and heavy rain forecast as tropical storm approaches Japan
Tropical Storm Chan-hom is expected to make landfall in northern Kanto between late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.

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