PROGRAM
Tokyo Festival Farm
Tokyo Festival Farm 2024 Lab Public Lecture
"In order to overhaul the creative environment, now is the time to talk about 'structure'- with Sayoko Nobuta"
- Childcare services
- Writing board support
【Available for a limited time】
Period: Monday, December 9, 15:00 - Monday, January 13, 2025, 23:59
There is no English interpretation/subtitle available for this video. (except for some parts)
Lecture for Tokyo Festival Farm Lab participants to be open to the public
Under the keyword “Reciprocity,” Asian Performing Arts Camp - a Tokyo Festival Farm 2024 Lab program - is working to create a platform enabling creative thinking to be directed towards the future, collaborating with others from different culture and backgrounds in a world where intolerance continues to produce division and violence.
Program lecturer Sayako Nobuta (a certified public psychologist and clinical psychologist) has tackled family and parent-child matters for many years as a counsellor, dealing with clients suffering from addiction, domestic violence, abuse, etc. Nobuta’s work also reaches out to the perpetrators of domestic violence, for example by implementing educational programs geared towards them.
Harassment in the creative workplace, unhealthy organizational management, exploitation-prone power relationships, etc. share commonalities with the structure of the “family” as referenced in Nobuta’s work. In order to explore and practice the communication and relationship-building necessary for collaborating with others, this lecture attempts to deconstruct and overhaul the existing creative environment from the perspective of “structure,” Nobuta’s foundation for tackling family issues.
Taking the podium with Nobuta on the day as interviewers will be Asian Performing Arts Camp facilitators Kyoko Takenaka and Kanoko Tamura. While presenting examples of structural problems that can occur in the creative workplace for the performing arts, we hear about Nobuta’s experiential knowledge and break down the asymmetry and inequality latent within collective bodies. By thinking about structural issues in the creative workplace together with participants and visitors to Tokyo Festival Farm 2024 Lab, the aim is to share ideas and perspectives that will lead to material action in future.
Profile
Sayoko Nobuta
Born in 1946. After completing a Masters degree at Ochanomizu University, Nobuta worked at Komagino Hospital before establishing Harajuku Counseling Center in 1995, from which she retired as director in May 2021 and for which she currently serves as an advisor. Her counseling career has encompassed addiction, eating disorders, hikikomori (severe social recluses) and their families, domestic violence, child abuse, perpetrators and victims of harassment and sexual violence, and more. She currently serves as Chairperson for The Japan Society of Certified Public Psychologists, Director of the Japanese Society of Certified Clinical Psychologists, and Representative Director of Nonprofit organization RRP Kenkyukai.
Nobuta’s numerous publications include “Addiction Approach,” “Domestic Violence and Abuse,” “Can Perpetrators Change?”, “The Heavy Burden of Motherhood”, “The Clinical Theory of Addiction,” and “Family and State in Collusion”. Her latest book is “Violence and Addiction” (Seido sha), and she was editor in charge of the special Human Mind issue “Clinical Psychology and Politics” (Nippon Hyoron Sha Co.,Ltd.).
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Schedule
Wednesday, Sep. 25, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (JST)
[Reservations have now closed (updated August 24th at 2pm)]
Duration: 3 hours with a few intermissions
Doors open 15 minutes before the lecture starts.
Venue
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Gallery 2 (5F)
1-8-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo
2 minutes’ walk from the West Exit of Ikebukuro Station on the JR and other lines. (Direct connection to the theatre from Exit 2b.) *For access to Gallery 2, please take the elevator from the 1st floor of the theater or the escalator to the 5th floor.
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Accessibility
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- Writing board available
- Childcare service (temporary childcare is available within the theater. Fees apply. Limited capacity)
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To all visitors
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Staff
Farm-Lab Office
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Chief Managers: Satoshi Okawa, Rin Terada
Program Coordinators: Hinako Someya, Yukio Nitta, Minano Hirano
Advisor: Yuko Uematsu
Back Office: Mihoka Kawamura, Hinako Someya
Communication Design Team
Art Translators Collective
Team Lead: Kyle Yamada, Yuki Harukawa
Members: Kanoko Tamura, Yume Morimoto, Hibiki Mizuno
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee
Manager (Farm): Natsumi Hamada
Organizer: Tokyo Festival Executive Committee [Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre & Arts Council Tokyo) Tokyo Metropolitan Government] / Japan Arts Council / Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Commission: Japan Cultural Expo 2.0 in the Fiscal Year 2024
Sponsor: Asahi Group Japan, Ltd
Inquiry
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