Programs

Information and Knowlege

CTN’s efforts in building broad knowledge within the professional community about artistic resources and management practices of U.S. and Japan include:

-  Organizing seminars and briefing sessions on Japanese performing arts at national and regional booking conferences in the U.S. in association with The Japan Foundation.  The conferences have included the annual meeting of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Midwest Arts Conference and Performing Arts Exchange.


-  Facilitating a number of genre-specific Japanese field expert research trips to the U.S. including participation at the National Dance Project meeting in Honolulu, and a dance research trip to Philadelphia.  Other field sites have included Minneapolis, New York City, Columbus, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Kansas City.


-  More than a dozen delegation trips by American arts professionals to Japan and by their Japanese counterparts to the U.S. To date, we have brought more than 80 performing and visual arts professionals from  the U.S. to Japan to participate in international conferences, visit their counterparts on site and meet with possible funders.