Template List

2020 Events

JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember2019 Events2021 Events
Mayby Region

Due to the ongoing concerns surrounding Covid-19, many events are being cancelled at short notice. As such, the information presented here is not the most up to date. Please contact the organisers of events directly to confirm if the event is planned to go ahead as scheduled.

Day: 01 - 09
Drawing Your Manga Character: Online Demonstration with Kutsuwada Chies

Drawing Your Manga Character: Online Demonstration with Kutsuwada Chie

1 May 2020
Online

Japanese ink painting course – landscape of the four seasons

Japanese ink painting course – landscape of the four seasons

Postponed
1, 8, 15 May 2020
London

Koinobori Workshop, Chiddingstone Castle

Koinobori Workshop, Chiddingstone Castle

3 May 2020
Edenbridge

JWA Presents: Japanese Woodwork Webinars With Masahiro Kudo – Live From Japan

JWA Presents: Japanese Woodwork Webinars With Masahiro Kudo – Live From Japan

03, 10, 17, 24 & 31 May 2020
Online

Wheelchair Basketball Challenge 2020

Wheelchair Basketball Challenge 2020

Postponed until further notice
4 May 2020
London

Samurai: History and Legend

Samurai: History and Legend

Postponed until further notice
4 May - 26 September 2020
Cambridge

Exploring Manga: Online Demonstration with Elena Vitagliano

Exploring Manga: Online Demonstration with Elena Vitagliano

5 May 2020
Online

Geisha

Geisha

6 – 9 May, 12 – 16 May 2020
Edinburgh & Cardiff

WEBINAR - International Responsibilities and the Pandemic with Mark Malloch-Brown and Mami Mizutori

WEBINAR - International Responsibilities and the Pandemic with Mark Malloch-Brown and Mami Mizutori

7 May 2020
Online

Exploring Manga: Online Demonstration with Elena Vitagliano

Online Gallery Talk: Spotlight on Anno’s Journey

7 May 2020
Online

Design Your Own Kokeshi

Design Your Own Kokeshi

8 May - 1 June 2020
Online competition

NOBUYUKI TSUJII – SCHUBERT, SCRIABIN & CHOPIN

NOBUYUKI TSUJII – SCHUBERT, SCRIABIN & CHOPIN

Cancelled
9 May 2020
Liverpool

Information day on education and Research in Japan 2020

Information day on education and Research in Japan 2020

May 2020
London

The Great Race!

The Great Race!

May - September 2020
Throughout the UK

Day: 10 - 19
Nobuyuki Tsujii piano

Nobuyuki Tsujii piano

Postponed
10 May 2020
Liverpool

Japan through a Photographer’s Lens: in Conversation with Frederic Aranda

Japan through a Photographer’s Lens: in Conversation with Frederic Aranda

12 May 2020
Online

What We Know Now: Medical Science and the Response to COVID-19 with Kiyoshi Kurokawa and Peter Piot

What We Know Now: Medical Science and the Response to COVID-19 with Kiyoshi Kurokawa and Peter Piot

14 May 2020
Online

Nobu plays Rachmaninov

Nobu plays Rachmaninov

Cancelled
14 May 2020
Liverpool

Drawing Kimono: Online Session with Kutsuwada Chie

Drawing Kimono: Online Session with Kutsuwada Chie

15 May 2020
Online

FOYLE O-BON FESTIVAL 2020

FOYLE O-BON FESTIVAL 2020

16 – 23 May 2020
Derry Londonderry

A CONVERSATION WITH JAY RUBIN

A CONVERSATION WITH JAY RUBIN

15 May 2020
Online

Patterns of Fashion

Patterns of Fashion

19 May 2020
London

Online Boro (fabric repairing) Workshop

Online Boro (fabric repairing) Workshop

19 May 2020
Online

Online Boro (fabric repairing) Workshop

How to Draw Manga: Online Event Series

15, 19, 29 May, 2, 12 & 16 June 2020
Online

Day: 20 - 31
Online Lecture: The intimacy of minor sounds: an anthropologist’s journey into the private, insular worlds of amateur music in Tokyo

Online Lecture: The intimacy of minor sounds: an anthropologist’s journey into the private, insular worlds of amateur music in Tokyo

21 May 2020
Online

Creation, communication, and community: a better response to coronavirus?

Webinar: Creation, communication, and community: a better response to coronavirus?

21 May 2020
Online

Engelbert Kaempfer: Observer and Collector in 17th-century Japan

The Art of Kintsugi: Online Talk & Demonstration

21 May 2020
Online

Engelbert Kaempfer: Observer and Collector in 17th-century Japan

Engelbert Kaempfer: Observer and Collector in 17th-century Japan

26 May 2020
London

Pico Iyer on Japan

Pico Iyer on Japan

26 May 202
London

Pico Iyer on Japan

Online Event: Yuriko Kotani with Till Weingärtner - The Making of a Japanese Stand-Up in the UK

26 May 202
Online

Pico Iyer on Japan

ONLINE EVENT - Bilingual Public Speaking Club

27 May 2020
Online

Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra concert performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, featuring Japanese soprano Eri Nakamura

Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra concert performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, featuring Japanese soprano Eri Nakamura

Cancelled
28, 30 May 2020
Manchester

Yonkoma manga: A workshop led by Shango

Yonkoma manga: A workshop led by Shango

29 May 2020
Online

Monogatari: the art of storytelling in Japanese woodblock prints

Monogatari: the art of storytelling in Japanese woodblock prints

Postponed until further notice
29 May – 4 October 2020
Durham

Reiko Fujisawa presents Beethoven – pianist, prophet and dreamer

Reiko Fujisawa presents Beethoven – pianist, prophet and dreamer

30 May 2020
Oxford

Ending Soon!
Toward the Sunrise

Toward the Sunrise

16 March – 2 May 2020
Kent

Exquisite Patterns: Japanese Textile Design

Exquisite Patterns: Japanese Textile Design

14 February – 17 May 2020
London

Currently Ongoing
Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan

Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan

Postponed
16 April - 28 June 2020
London

Nihongo Cup 2020

Nihongo Cup 2020

Finals: 27 June 2020
University of Oxford

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk

29 February – 21 June 2020
London

Coventry Torch Relay – Lighting the Flame of Friendship

Coventry Torch Relay – Lighting the Flame of Friendship

Postponed
26 March – 3 July 2020
Coventry

Rugby and the Olympics Special Exhibition

Rugby and the Olympics Special Exhibition

29 November 2019 - 31 August 2020
Twickenham

Yama: Sakubei Yamamoto Coal Mine Paintings Exhibition

Yama: Sakubei Yamamoto Coal Mine Paintings Exhibition

14 September 2019 - 30 September 2020
Torfaen, Wales

University of Oxford Internships and Work Placements in Japan

University of Oxford Internships and Work Placements in Japan

Until December 2020
UK-Japan

HOME

Season of Culture
Japan-UK Events Calendar
Flagship Project
Embassy of Japan in the UK

SEASON OF CULTURE

Japan Information and Cultural Centre
Embassy of Japan in the UK

© Embassy of Japan in the UK - All Rights Reserved.