Owlspot, a public interest foundation, is entitled "Nyu-Bon Odori NEO" as a project to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the foundation, and can be enjoyed "anyone, anywhere, freely" on the special website on the 1st of every month. We send out dances and are looking for videos to post dances on Owlspot's official Twitter account. Every summer, Owlspot holds "Nyu-Bon Odori," which is a summer tradition held in Toshima Ward. However, this year we abandoned the event due to the influence of the new coronavirus, so we decided to hold it as a video distribution format that can be enjoyed at home and can be enjoyed "anyone, anywhere, freely". You…
Tokyo Music Evening Yube Free outdoor contest thriving: High-quality classical music will be held on Thursday, November 26th from 18:00 to 19:00
Toshima Ward holds a free outdoor classic concert "Tokyo Music Evening Yube" about once a week at GLOBAL RING THEATER (1-8-26 Nishi-Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park). In order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, we have resumed outdoor concert performances in September after live performances online from May. Currently, as a measure against corona, reserved seats of about 200 to 250 are set up, and advance lottery is held only for Tokyo residents, but all performances after resumption are full. The total number of applications for this performance was 473, which greatly exceeded the capacity. From the visitors, "I was able to listen to it with peace of mind because…
“IKEBUS at Cal Tour” Let’s visit sightseeing spots and cultural facilities by ikebus on holidays! Special tours are also available for each season
As an "IKEBUS at Cal Tour", we will tour attractive tourist spots and cultural facilities in the ward on IKEBUS, mainly on Saturdays and Sundays except the year-end and New Year holidays after Saturday, November 14th. To commemorate the enactment of the Toshima Culture Day Ordinance, we plan to let people inside and outside the city feel the art culture promoted by Toshima Ward. We will go around the east course in the morning and the west course in the afternoon. In addition, special courses will be offered in sequence according to the seasons and events such as Christmas, New Year, and cherry blossom viewing. We are also planning a…
Toshima Ward Tokiwa-so Manga Museum special exhibition “Tokiwa-so’s Aniki Terada Hiroo Exhibition” held [October 30-]
From October 30, 2020 (Friday), a special exhibition "Tokiwa-so's Aniki Terada Hiroo Exhibition" will be held at Tokiwa-so Manga Museum. To commemorate this, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held by Mayor Takano Toshima. Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ, a former Tokiwa-so resident and manga artist, also participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. This exhibition introduces the works of Hiroo Terada, a former resident of Tokiwa-so and a manga artist, as well as his personality and thoughts on manga, along with valuable materials from that time, such as handwritten manuscripts and interview articles. It was nicknamed "Tera-san" by fellow manga artists who lived in Tokiwa-so, and was loved as "Aniki". This can be seen in…
[Hareza Ikebukuro] Exhibition event “Sports, traditional crafts, and literature that unite the world” will be held on November 3rd.
Before the Tokyo 2020 Games, Yuzen Furisode from Greece and two other countries and Olympians and traditional craftsmen are united. Before the Tokyo 2020 Games, Toshima Ward will be in Hareza Ikebukuro for one day on the theme of "Sports, Traditional Crafts" and "Literature" that unite the world on Culture Day on November 3rd. Will be exhibited. The Olympic and Paralympic Games, which are both a "sports festival" and a "cultural festival." Based on the valuable materials of Mr. Hiroshi Ishii, a silver medalist of the 800m relay swimming race in the 1960 Rome Games from Toshima Ward, and Mr. Sakae Sakahara, a traditional craftsman who expressed Greece, the birthplace…
[Toshima Center Square] The 28th Toshima Ward Traditional Crafts Exhibition Held-Demonstration of the craftsmanship of traditional craftsmen-
From Thursday, October 22nd to Saturday, October 24th, the “28th Toshima Ward Traditional Crafts Exhibition” will be held at Toshima Center Square on the 1st floor of the Toshima Ward Government Building. The “Toshima Ward Traditional Crafts Exhibition” is an event where craftsmen of traditional crafts belonging to the Toshima Ward Traditional Crafts Preservation Society gather together to display and sell “Takumi no Skill” crafts. 22 people from 12 industries such as “Tokyo Hand-Drawn Yuzen” and “Tokyo Rattan Crafts” (one of them is a supporting member) will exhibit, and many sophisticated works will be lined up. This year’s event will be held after sufficient measures have been taken…
“Exhibition of things in Morikazu Kumagai’s atelier” will be held from October 27th at Jiyu Gakuen Tomorrow Hall Auditorium
Reiwa 2 (2020) marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of Morikazu Kumagai, a painter associated with Toshima Ward. To coincide with this commemorative year, we will hold an exhibition "What was in Morikazu Kumagai's atelier" to introduce the charm of Morikazu Kumagai in three dimensions. Morikazu Kumagai was born in 1880 in Tsukechi-mura, Ena-gun, Gifu Prefecture (currently Tsukechi-cho, Nakatsugawa City). Moved to Tokyo at the age of 17 and entered the Western Painting Course of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (currently Tokyo University of the Arts) at the age of 20. I belonged to the Nika Association before the war for a long time. He moved to Nagasaki-cho, Toshima-ku…
Why don’t you take a peek at Tokiwa-so at night? “Tokiwa-so Night Museum” held
The Toshima Ward Tokiwaso Manga Museum, which opened in July, has completed its opening commemorative exhibition on September 30th (Wednesday), and is currently closed for the next exhibition change until October 19th (Monday). It is in. The total number of customers who have come since the museum opened has exceeded 20,000. We are grateful to many people for visiting us, and for those people and those who are looking forward to the next opening, we are in a hurry from October 20th (Tuesday) to October 25th (Tuesday). We have decided to hold the "Tokiwa-so Night Museum" for a limited time. The highlight is that you can experience the appearance of…
[Tokyo Music Evening Yube] Tomomi Nishimoto & Illuminate Philharmonic Orchestra held on Sunday, November 1st
"Tokyo Music Evening Yube" is an outdoor concert where you can enjoy authentic classical music, which is regularly held at the Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park outdoor theater "GLOBAL RING THEATER" as part of after-the-theatre and nightlife sightseeing. On Sunday, November 1st, Tomomi Nishimoto and the Illuminate Philharmonic Orchestra, who performed on Saturday, September 26th, will return with even more power. In the program, actress Yoshiko Sakuma will also read poetry. At the previous performance while the new coronavirus was rampant, there were voices such as "I was impressed" and "I was keenly aware of the necessity and importance of art", and of course those who came to see it passed by.…
[Toshima-ku] “Come! Look! Shopping Street” Introducing shopping street stores on TV and the Web
-New Coronavirus Countermeasures Support for stores in Toshima Ward “Come! Look! Shopping Street”- In Toshima Ward, together with the Toshima Ward Shopping District Association, in order to support mainly restaurants in the ward, at the “Come! Look! Shopping District” corner in Toshima NEWS of Toshima TV (every Monday to Friday 13:00) 45 minutes ~) Introducing store information and recommended products. You can also see the video broadcast on Toshima TV on the website of the Toshima Ward Shopping District Association. At some stores, we offer discounts on products only for those who come to the store after watching the video. (First-come-first-served basis) As of October 8,…