Expo, performances, electro evening… For a week, Toulouse becomes the capital of Japan
By Toulouse editorial staff
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After two blank years, Made in Asia is back in force: the festival, which its free organizers as “multidisciplinary, multi-mixed, multi-global, multi-hybrid”, will propose to rob a big spotlight on contemporary Japanese culturethrough exhibitions, live shows, concerts, conferences, creative workshops and many other events also around cinema and literature.
Expo and electro evening at Georges-Labit
The Georges Labit Museum will house the photographic exhibition “Double Life” around the twins and will host in his garden an evening organized by Musekai, like a taste of Japanese nightlife a stone’s throw from the Canal du Midi. Finally, as often, the cultural bars of the Bar-Bars collective will set their clocks and their energy to Japanese time.
In an abundant program, there are a few unmissable events: a signing session by Atelier Sentô, made up of Cécile Brun and Olivier Pichard, the authors of “La Fête des Ombres”, a very popular comic strip, Friday 1uh April 2022 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Comptoir du rêve bookstore (25, rue Charles de Rémusat) and “La Muraille et le Vent”, a musical performance by Emmanuelle Troy, long-distance traveler which will take place on Thursday April 7 at the Salle du Maréchal all the diversity of Eastern music.
Around the Asian LGBTQ+ community
Going a little beyond the Japanese island, we can measure the audacity and vitality of “In-Queering” cinema around the Asian LGBTQ + community and we can follow the project of Taiwanese artist Charwei Tsai at the heart of the medieval.
To discover “Kacha-Kacha”, a long-awaited gourmet and interactive performance of culinary design and the famous show “Dark Samurai” by Tamangoh Vancayseele Stanislas, tap dancer, choreographer, musician and painter.
Superb “Black Samurai”
This magnificent artist draws his inspiration wherever he goes and the world is his playground. In Japan, he undertook an artistic and personal quest which led him to meet his Japanese sword master: thus was born “Black Samurai”. , which he will present on Thursday April 7 at 12:30 p.m. at the Maison du campus in Castres (Tarn) and at 8 p.m. the same evening and the next day at the Maison d’Activités Culturelles Chapou, in Toulouse.
This (true) story of Yasuké, an African who came from Mozambique in the 16and century and who became Samurai is undoubtedly one of the key shows of this exciting 15and editing.
Jean-Claude Simon
Complete program on madeinasia.fr
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