What is the Tokyo Culture Creation Project?
The Tokyo Culture Creation Project is a project that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture have been executing since 2008 in collaboration with various arts and cultural organizations and art NPOs. The Project’s objectives are to create and promote arts and culture that are unique to Tokyo, to develop children’s rich sensibilities through arts and culture, and to create various local cultural focal points in Tokyo. This year marks the third year of the Project.
The Project’s activities include organization of events and festivals in the fields of theater, music, traditional performing arts and fine art, among others; facilitation of collaborative art programs between residents of Tokyo and artists; nurture of torchbearers and supporters of culture who help make arts an integral part of the city of Tokyo; and operation of programs to provide children with the opportunity to experience arts and culture.
Utilizing the city’s diverse and strong cultural base as a metropolis, we aim to establish Tokyo’s cultural presence in the world by communicating the city’s attractiveness and to make Tokyo an international cultural hub.