Thinking about the Future: Cultural Diversity and Social Inclusion

We are glad to announce that we are now opening the attendance registration for this year’s cluster project, titled ‘Thinking about the Future: Cultural Diversity and Social Inclusion’, at Kyushu University’s Asia Week 2021 organized by the Cluster of Society and Disaster Prevision, Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies (Q-AOS).
This project will deliberate on the ideal form and prospects of a society consisting of people from different backgrounds. This will be done while consciously considering various barriers which exist in the contemporary world – particularly from the perspective of cultural policies and practices in Asian cities, including those in Japan.
This conference consists of two parts: in Part 1, we will hold a symposium to discuss cultural policy and art projects via comparisons of examples from Australia, Korea, Singapore, and Japan. We invite Dr Rimi Khan – lecturer at RMIT International University Vietnam specialising in cultural studies, multiculturalism, cultural policy, and youth culture – as a special guest to join our other guests from Japan.
Part 2 involves researchers, practitioners, civil servants, and citizens; thus, it is more casual than Part 1. This part includes a drama workshop organized by Ms Chieko Honda of the Piccolo Theatre in Hyogo Prefecture and where twenty-five participants will learn how to transcend cultural barriers. After the workshop, we will invite three drama practitioners and organizations – the Kani City Cultural Creation Center (ala) the Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki Youth Creation Theatre, the Piccolo Theatre, and the Mr Takuya Murakawa Drama Practitioners – to provide a platform for discussing the arts activities with/by the foreign residents.