A-ROUND Executive Committee(Chairman Takeo Kawashima) will hold “the fifth Asakusa A- ROUND 2015”from October 30 to November 1 at Asakusa area( Main venue: Sumida park River side gallery).

In this event, local workmen and artisits, creator work cooperatively setting up many projects for giving publicity of Asakusa which leather culture has been developed since Edo period. During the event, various new events such as walking tour with a local guid, out door market on vehicle-free street, a three day ‘TOKYO LEATHER & CRAFT MUSEUM’ will be held. It will be a greatly pleasing three days which you can enjoy Asakusa’s charm.

For more information, check the homepage.

‘Impressionist Masterpieces from Marmottan Monet Museum’is in Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museumon September 19 to December 13.
This exhibition will present 90 pieces from the private collection of great Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).There are display of ‘The Bridge of Europe, Saint-Lazare Stationn,Palais des Tuileries, Meules, effet de neige, soleil couchant,the painting which gave its name to Impressionism, Sunrise in the special exhibition which is the collection of Dr. Georges de Bellio, one of the first admirers of the Impressionist movement.

During the exhibition, there are display of the official supporter, Mr. Seiichi Tanabe’s art work ‘Monet in Japan’ and the shop for official character goods, Tokyo branch of three-stars restaurant L’Auberge De L’ill Tokyo and a cafe collaborated with Ecute Ueno provides various sweets and dessert.
After Tokyo, the exhibition will be held at Fuoka Art Museum, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art.Works for display might change depends on the place or schedule.

For more information, visit http://www.ntv.co.jp/monet/

Computer Entertainment Association will hold a ‘ Tokyo Game Show 2015’ for four days from September 17 to 20 at the Makuhari Messe.
It will be opend for companies on Semptember 17 and 18, for the public on September 19 and 20. This is the world biggest exhibition for computer entertainment, 242 companies will participate and the most booths of 1891 will put up for display.

Also it will be the first time to use whole area of Makuhari Messe for this event. During the show, there will be a announdement for Japan Game Prize, Cosplay Collection Night TGS, Cyber Games Asia.

For more information, please visit following website:
http://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/tgs/2015/

Okinawa prefecture and Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau will hold a ‘Okinawa Contents Fair in Tourism EXPO JAPAN 2015’ at Tokyo Big Sight on September 25.

In this year’s remote islands contents fair, about fifty industries of tourist and trade will gather from four areas(Yaeyama, Miyako, Kumejima and other fifteen islands around main land ) of Okinawa, It will be the biggest tourism fair with worthful business meeting.
With the concept of ‘ The trip for finding your own treasure’, a lot of information not only summer and the sea but worthful contents such as nature, communication, culture, food will be provided.
Besides business meeting and exhibition, The talk session of Mr.Daiichi Hirata who is the chief director of Okinawa cultural society, Ms.Mayuko Kono who is a reserci fellow of Japan Tourism Maeketing Co, Mr.Masayuki Sesoko who is a chief editor of Okinawa Clip will be held. Also there will be a talk and live performance of a musical unit ‘ SAKISHIMA Meeting’ who is from remote island of Okinawa, folkcraftshop, traditional culture experience area and many more various events about Okinawa remote islands.

For more information, visit the following website;
http://okinawaritou-contentsfair.info/

Okinawa Contents Fair in Tourism EXPO JAPAN 2015
DATE: September 25 am10:00-18:00
PLACE: Tokyo Big Sight, East exhibition hall, Okinawa booth

The third ‘Festa do Brasil’ will be held on Sep. 11 to 13 at Sunshine City(Ikebukuro, Tokyo).This is a Brasil- themed event which provides a lot of programs related music, food and art. The main theme of this event in this year is ‘ Eat ! Dance ! Have Fun! Enjoy Brasil ! ‘.

During the event, you can taste representative Brasilian soul food,Churrasco and famous cocktail, Caipirinha. And you can also buy a lot of Brasilian products and accessaries.

Additionaly, street perccusion group from Rio De Janeiro ‘Monbloco’ will be there as a special guest. They will give a live performance.

You can enjoy more and more variety of fun performance and events.

For more information, please visit following website.
http://sunshine-brasil.com/.

THE TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2015 will be held at Gaien Campus of Kyoto University of Art and Design / Tohoku University of Art and Design,

This is a book fair specialized art which has been held senven times in this year, In this book fair, highly individualistic publishing companies of art books, Catalogus, Artisit books, Zines and artists will get together.

About three hundreds of publishing companies, galleries, artists run booths and more than ten thousand visitors are expected during the three days period.

From this time, ‘ Guest Country Area’ will be set up. The first country, Swiss will have exhibitions showing circumstances about publishing in Swiss and their culture.In additon various events such as talk show and special exhibition’ Irma Boom BookS’ and so on are scheduled.

Admission is free. For more information, please visit the website http://tokyoartbookfair.com/

On August 19, PACIFIC CONVENTION PLAZA YOKOHAMA（PACIFICO Yokohama）participated in ‘Kids Adventure 2015’organized by the Yokohama City Board of Education as part of CSR activities for the first time.

The company held an event which kids can enjoy having job experience called ‘Let’s see the backstage – enjoy learning how professionals support the conference’at PACIFICO Yokohama annex hall.This event is active learning program for kids designed for the purpose of spread MICE Industry to a lot of people.

In this program, kids took classes to learn how to set up the convention, knowledge of acoustic,lightning and projection.in the last class, they simulated working at convention hall and then got certificate of completion.It was precious experience to know the backstage of convention with using real tool like audio and lightning equipment which professionals use in the actual work.

One of the program participants said with a pleased look’ It was really enjoyable to make a weird voice in acoustic class and use lightning and camera devices which I hardly handle,’

‘Kids Adventure’ is an career experience event that offer chances to interact each other through various social experiences for children in elementary school and junior high school in Yokohama City.And it also aims to set the stage for parent and child to talk about children’s future.