舞台芸術制作者オープンネットワーク（ON-PAM）Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM)

Speakers: Emilia Youn-kyung Lee (Team Manager, Korea Arts Management Service), Serene Lim (Deputy Director, Strategic Planning and International Relations, National Arts Council), Betty Mak (Planning and Cultural Exchange Director, Hong Kong Arts Development Council)

Moderator: Yukio Nitta (Independent Producer)

BankART Studio NYK, 2B Gallery
2.15 Thu 12:30 - 14:20

Arts councils’ projects and supports have been playing important roles in performing arts exchange in the Asian region. In Japan, references have been made mainly to European and Australian examples when discussing arts councils, but in this session we invite guests from Asia to hear about their activities and local contexts, especially the recognition of the expertise of performing arts managers, grant systems and projects based on each institution’s missions, and the possibilities of collaboration between arts councils.

After studying the Chinese Language & Literature, Emilia Youn-kyung Lee started the performing arts field career in ASSITEJ Korea, the majour organization & network of theatre for young audiences in Korea. And she started her career in the Korea Arts Management Service since 2014. She has been in charge of showcase programme of Performing Arts Market in Seoul (PAMS) for 3 years. From this year, her team, the Performing Arts Planning Team, will organize not only the PAMS but also the Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) in accordance with each other.

The National Arts Council (NAC) champions the arts in Singapore. Serene Lim heads the Strategic Planning and International Relations department at the NAC. She oversees her team in developing robust arts and culture policies to nurture Singapore’s arts ecosystem, as well as engage in organisational development and performance management work to strengthen NAC’s internal processes. Her team also looks at how to best position Singapore’s arts globally, through international exchanges, collaborations, market development initiatives and showcases.

Betty Mak is currently the Planning and Cultural Exchange Director of Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC), where she is responsible for the areas of research, cultural exchange, arts space development and arts administrators training. Major projects included Hong Kong’s participations in the Venice Biennale (Art / Architecture from 2001 to 2016) and Liverpool Biennale (2012), the International Arts Leadership Roundtable, Hong Kong Annual Arts Survey, the debut Arts Development Award, Arts Education Expo, and art delegation visits to various cities in Mainland China and overseas.

Born in Tokyo Japan, Yukio Nitta graduated from MA in Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management, Taipei National University of the Arts. He ventured into contemporary drama, Taiwanese Opera, contemporary dance, tech art, world music and pop music. In the past few years, he has worked with performance groups including Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, YiLab, Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group, Meimage Dance and Huang Yi Studio+; and festival including Kuandu Arts Festival, Taipei Arts Festival, Taipei Fringe Festival and TPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, promoting performance art with every step he takes with the aim of introducing Taiwan and Asia to more people.

Speaker: Yukinori Takada (Director for Policy Planning and Coordination, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan)

BankART Studio NYK, 2B Gallery
2.15 Thu 14:40 - 16:30

In the fiscal 2018, the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan is going to reform its administrative system that has been vertically divided into fields into a new organizational structure designed in accordance with goals, and to expand its functions, in order to promote its policy for culture and the arts. ON-PAM has been studying the Basic Act for Culture and the Arts as well as the Basic Plan for the Promotion of Culture and the Arts, and presented a letter of request that collected the voices of the members of the network and from the ground to the Council for Cultural Affairs in November 2017. This symposium, as an opportunity for bridging the domains of cultural policy making and performing arts management, invites a guest speaker from the Agency who will deliver a lecture on the “new” Agency for Cultural Affairs. A Q&A session follows.

Entered the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science in 1997. Managing Director at the Education Policy Division of the board of education, Kochi Prefecture in 2007. Deputy Director at the Policy Planning and Coordination Division of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2009. First Secretary in charge of education, sports, culture and public relations at the Embassy of Japan in Brazil in 2013. Director in charge of the World Forum on Sport and Culture, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in October 2016, and has been in the present post since February 2017. He is also the Director for Cultural Program 2020, Director for Public Relations and Senior Specialist for Cultural Volunteering.

BankART Studio NYK, Library
2.16 Fri 11:00 - 13:00

For ON-PAM, the year 2017 was a year for concrete outputs: we reinforced advocacy as one of our missions since the establishment of the network in 2013, made a “guideline” for advocacy, and presented a letter of request to the Council for Cultural Affairs. We will also report on the activities of our new “committees” as well as our international exchange project: the second “ON-PAM Asia Meeting” in Singapore. Our projects reflect what has been exchanged between participants in activity report presentations in the past; it is an opportunity for sharing ideas about the activity of ON-PAM.

BankART Studio NYK, Library
2.16 Fri 14:00 - 16:00

Open only for the members of ON-PAM (membership available at door).