Setagaya Public Theatre
Workshop/Lecture
2014
The Setagaya Public Theater opened in 1997 in Sangenjaya, Tokyo.From the beginning, we have been working with the goal of being a creative public theater, with dedicated production and technical staff, and have been engaged in creative activities ourselves.
At the same time, it was the first “public theater” to have a full-time curatorial staff, and has implemented the following five projects as its pillars.
(XNUMX) Workshops using the techniques of theater and dance for people in the area around Setagaya, Tokyo.
(XNUMX) Workshops for children.Workshops at public elementary and junior high schools in the Setagaya area of Tokyo.
A workshop for public elementary and junior high school teachers.Supporting the activities of the junior high school drama club.
(XNUMX) Digging into the environment surrounding theaters and performing arts such as theater and dance from multiple perspectives,
Lectures, workshops, etc. aimed at disseminating performing arts as well as deeply exploring them.
(XNUMX) Audiences who are deeply interested in stage productions and who support theater activities.
Students such as university students of art management department who will support the future performing arts world.
Human resource development such as producers and operators required in the theater.
(XNUMX) "SPT" and "SPT educational", which supplement the activities of the theater sideways,
Publishing magazines about workshops and other activities in the Setagaya area of Tokyo and schools.
We have been actively working on the above.
Seeing the theater as a public space and using the methodology of theater as an analytical device to make things visible.
As a result, people living in the community will have the opportunity to reconsider their own community, how to coexist with others, and how to live as an individual, and find new possibilities and values. provide a venue.
Through these activities, we aim to make local communities richer and better, and to help people acquire new perspectives.
I also hope that what they experience at the theater will lead to their actual actions.
We believe that this is the mission given to us at the theater.
▼Schedule of finished workshops and lectures (Setagaya Public Theater, Tokyo)