Previous Events 2014
Australian artists at the 'Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT' exhibition
21 September 2013-13 January 2014
Oron Catts at 'BioAesthetics Open Lab'
25 December 2013-2 March 2014
Shonah Trescott's works to be shown at the Ando Collection exhibition
14 January-22 March 2014
Dana Harris 'tokyo project'
18-26 January 2014 (27-30 January: Viewing by appointment only)
Japanese Studies Support Symposium at the National Diet Library - Speaker from Australia
30 January 2014
"Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation" by Tessa Morris-Suzuki published in Japanese
February 2014-
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Australian works at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival - Exhibition of Award-winning Works
5-16 February 2014
Entertainment Division
Jury Selections
"Snake the Planet!"
Lukasz KARLUK, representative of MPU (Mobile Projection Unit)
Manga Division
Jury Selections
"Ngurrara"
Tyson MOWARIN / Stuart CAMPBELL
Report on Australian Cultural Policies and Museums - The Sixth 21st Century Museum Summit
8 February 2014
Australian Delegation to Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting
8-16 February 2014
Delegation: Rosemary Hinde, Delegation Leader; Jason Cross, Insite Arts; Tamara Harrison, Polyglot Theatre; Gene Peterson, Onyx Productions; Willoh Weiland, Aphids; Nic Clarke, Ranters Theatre
Aboriginal works exhibited at "The Power of Images: The National Museum of Ethnology Collection" at the National Art Center Tokyo
19 February-9 June 2014
Theatre "Black Medea"
22 February-1 March 2014
22-24 February 2014: Kanazawa performance
1 March 2014: Ishinomaki performance
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Australian musician Oren Ambarchi to perform at CCA Sound Workshop Live
27 February 2014
Alfredo&Isabel Aquilizan's work shown at Ichihara Lakeside Museum as part of Naka-Boso International Art Festival Ichihara Art x Mix
21 March-31 May 2014
Joint concert, Aboriginal art exhibition and didgeridoo performance celebrating the 35th anniversary of Osaka-Melbourne sister-city relationship
23-27 March 2014
nikosono's exhibition "Australian Biotope 24" : Abstract and aerial Photography from Western Australia
27 March-1 April 2014
Rising star of Australian jazz, Linda Oh (bass) to debut in Japan
4-12 April 2014
Stephen Mushin's shadow projection "The People's Projections" at Dogo Onsenart 2014
10 April 2014-31 December 2014
Short film challenge launched in Australia to raise global awareness about the homeless
- 11 April 2014
Along the River - exhibition of prints by Australian based collaborators Damon Kowarsky and Kyoko Imazu
18 April-11 May 2014
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Australian film director Jonathan Teplitzky's "The Railway Man" hits the screen
19 April 2014-
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Wrestling match for the Australian Pacific Pro Heavyweight Championship
25 April 2014
Australian Daniel Smith conducts the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
5 May 2014
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Australian artists Ken + Julia Yonetani to conduct an Artist-in-Residency in Okinawa
15 May-15 July 2014
Gallery Tour for 'The Power of Images' Exhibition
Speaker: Howard Morphy(Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University)
18 May 2014
PETER BURKE - Open Studio at Youkobo Artspace, Tokyo
24 May 2014
Exhibition of copperplate prints by the late Jörg Schmeisser
17-30 May 2014
Tropfest in Japan: The world's largest short film festival from Australia coming to Yokohama!
31 May 2014
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Australian Music Experience
31 May 2014
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Theatrical release of Australian-French film "ADORE"
31 May 2014-
Tracey Moffatt's work shown at the 'Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children' exhibition at the Mori Art Museum
31 May-31 August 2014
Publication of "Japanese Women Marriage Migrants to Australia: Changing Japanese Ethnic Community in Contemporary Australia" by Sir Neil Currie Award winner, Takeshi Hamano
June 2014-
'Sights from Sirens' - first ever large group survey exhibition of Aboriginal women photographers tours to Kawasaki City Museum, Japan, for the JAALA Biennial
7-15 June 2014
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Poko Australian Wildflower Exhibition
7-30 June 2014
'Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume' exhibition from the National Gallery of Australia
18 June-1 September 2014
Australian media artist Jeffrey Shaw exhibits his work "The Legible City" at the exhibition Open Space 2014
21 June 2014 - 8 March 2015
Artist talk by Jeffrey Shaw
22 June 2014
Stradivarius Charity Concert 2014 with Ray Chen
24-25 June 2014
Stradivarius Charity Concert 2014 with Ray Chen Australian violinist, Ray Chen plays at Yomiuri Otemachi Hall (with Danjulo Ishizaka and Akira Eguchi)
24 June 2014
Australian violinist, Ray Chen with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
25 June 2014
VINCE JONES - Australia's greatest jazz singer/trumpeter is coming back to Tokyo -
1-3 July 2014
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"Furious", a play by Michael Gow, performed by Japanese theatre company Haiyuza
6-13 July 2014
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Theatre company RINKOGUN presents "Hanchos' Meeting in Cowra"
10-25 July 2014
10-20 July 2014 in Tokyo
23 July 2014 in Kobe
25 July 2014 in Nagoya
Showing of "ENGI", an Australia-Japanese multidisciplinary 'work in progress' performance
12 July 2014
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International Theatre Exchange Seminar 2014 Australian special feature "Discover theatre plays from a multicultural society"
15-22 July 2014
Australian ballet dancer, Steven McRae in Alina Cojocaru Dream Project 2014
20-29 July 2014
20-27 July 2014 Tokyo
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29 July 2014 Fukuoka
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2014 ASAJ International Conference
Transformation of Australian Studies in a Globalising Age
26-27 July 2014
Cookin' On 3 Burners new CD "Blind Bet" released in Japan
6 August 2014-
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Kristian Haggblom's work shown at the 'Basically. Forever' exhibition, commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.
9-24 August 2014
"SAMSON AND DELILAH" - Cannes Film Festival praised title featuring Aboriginal boy and girl's journey - finally released in Japan
16 August-5 September 2014
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Australia-based artist Stephen Mushin Exhibition
'Now, if, what, then Farming Tokyo'
18-31 August 2014 Exhibition
21 August 2014 Forum
Australian films in the Competition program of the 15th International Animation Festival in Japan - HIROSHIMA 2014
21-25 August 2014
Melbourne based artist M T WALKER Exhibition 'ECONASIA: ROMAJI'
2-21 September 2014
Melbourne Print Art Exhibition from the Victorian College of the Arts and Exchange Presentation and Workshop at the 2nd international Mokuhanga conference 2014
11-14 September 2014
Australian Jazz Journey 2014 - performances by Cookin' On 3 Burners
6-15 September 2014
6 September 2014: 13th TOKYO JAZZ FESTIVAL 'The PLAZA'
7 September 2014: 13th TOKYO JAZZ FESTIVAL 'LABO STAGE'
10-11 September 2014: School visits in Iwate prefecture
13 September 2014: Jozenji StreetJazz Festival in SENDAI
15 September 2014: Iwate JAZZ Festival 2014
'ROAR in Japan': The SANGI Collection
17-21 September 2014
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Australian painters Mark Howson and Karan Hayman,who are the founders of the inspiring modern artists' collective "ROAR" in Melbourne, to exhibit a series of works from 1990s at The SANGI Collection.
Patricia Piccinini's "Skywhale" to be shown for the first time in Japan
20, 21, 27 and 28 September 2014
Lecture "Gallery education in Australia"
21 September 2014
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3rd touring exhibition International Architecture Biennale "Barbara Cappochin"
Australian architect Sean Godsell: Lecture at the Opening evening
26 September-9 October 2014
"Red Obsession" directed by Australian director Warwick Ross in Japanese theatres
27 September 2014 -
Australian singer-songwriter Sorcha Chisholm performs at the Harajuku Crocodile
3 October 2014
Screening at Haneda Airport of films including Australian short film "Summer Breaks", starring Mia Wasikowska
4-26 October 2014(Weekends and holidays only)
Lecture "The Future of Economic Cooperation in Asia?" by Peter Drysdale, Professor Emeritus, Australian National University in commemoration of his 2014 Japan Foundation Award
10 October 2014
Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki of the Australian National University to speak at Symposium "Reconsidering Multiculturalism and Citizenship in Japan" at Aoyama Gakuin University
12 October 2014
Tommy Emmanuel Japan Tour 2014
15 October 2014: Billboard Live Osaka
16 October 2014: Shibuya duo music exchange
17 October 2014: COTTON CLUB (Sold out)
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Australian artist ghostpatrol's exhibition "Yamanoie"
17 October- 2 November 2014
Penny Ikinger Japan Tour 2014
17-19 October 2014
17 October Outbreak Club, Tokyo.
18 October Club Sensation, Yokohama
19 October UFO Club, Tokyo.
Otemon Gakuin University and ASAJ Co-host Symposium
"The Japanese-Australian migrant community in Broome, WA"
18 October 2014
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Australian film "Mary meets Mohammad" to be screened at the 9th UNHCR Refugee Film Festival
18-19 October 2014
Publication of "The Koala's Christmas" by Melbourne based Tetsuta Watanabe and Chaco Kato
20 October 2014-
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Australian musician Oren Ambarchi to perform at CCA Sound Workshop Live in Kitakyushu
23 October 2014
Memorial Exhibition: Australian based Printmaker Jorg Schmeisser 1942-2012 "Bilder Der Reise : A man, who likes to draw"
25 October-16 November 2014
International Print Exhibition, Australia and Japan
28 October-7 December 2014
28 October-9 November 2014 , Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
29 November-7 December 2014, Fukuyama Museum of Art
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Kristin McCourtie, Manager and Director, Design Foundation representing Design Matters: Melbourne International Design Week at World Design Week Summit
29 October 2014
Theatrical release of Australian film "Guns & Gold" (Original title:"Son of a Gun")
1 November 2014-
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Auto Da Fe Theatre and Shinjuku Ryozanpaku collaboratively present "Everyman & the Pole Dancers"
30 October-2 November 2014
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Autumn Gathering in Australia House 2014
1-2 November 2014
Experience the beautiful sights and wonderful flavours of Echigo Tsumari, in this late Autumn home stay and sports festival weekend gathering
Australia cabaret starlet performs at Tokyo Fringe Festival 1 and 2 November 2014
1-2 November 2014
Australian illustrators/graphic designers Caroline Meathrel-Mack and Caroline McCurdy to exhibit at Design Festa vol.40
8-9 November 2014
Australian Embassy to be featured in BS Fuji's program "A Table of Embassy"
16 November 2014
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Australian artist Katie Jayne Britchford's Artist-in-Residence and exhibition at Iwase Rock Museum
16-30 November 2014
Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music's Drama Course trial presentation "The Dreamers" and "The Sapphires"
22-23 November 2014
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Release of CD, 'World Jazz Voyage' with two tracks by Cookin' On 3 Burners who successfully toured Tokyo, Iwate and Sendai in 2014
December 2014-
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Solo exhibition of Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan 'Habitations: Another Country' at Art Front Gallery
28 November-23 December 2014
Australia-based artist Chris Bennie's Artist-in-Residence and Open Studio at Youkobo Art Space
12-14 December 2014
Australian Japanese Butoh Cabaret Extravaganza, "DasSHOKU SHAKE!" in touring Tokyo, Osaka and Minamisanriku
14-24 December 2014
14-17 December 2014 - Workshops in Minami Sanriku primary schools
19 December 2014 - Saravah Tokyo
23 December 2014 - Nishi Tenman LiveHouse GANZ toi toi toi
24 December 2014 - Livehouse Osaka KANDYLION
Daniel Keene's "Scissors, Paper, Rock" performances in Sendai
23-28 December 2014
Bunkamura's 25th Anniversary "Captain Cook's Voyage and Banks' Florilegium" exhibition
23 December 2014-1 March 2015
Masterpieces of Contemporary Australian Literature Series 3rd book "The Slap" by Christos Tsiolkas Japanese translation to be published
25 December 2014 -
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Australia-Japan Co-production, "Finding 1984" to air in Japan (presented by Wildbear Entertainment and WOWOW)
27 December 2014