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Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Music Workshop was created based on our wish for "as many people as possible to come enjoy the wonder of music without making large efforts!" Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Music Workshop is a program with an objective to foster thriving spirits through the development of both communication and self expression skills, via the raising of interest in music and the arts. As a public cultural institute, we wish to provide a comfortable space where people can come together to enjoy music. And lately, we are putting more of our energy into workshops for people who need support from society, by growing our activities into nursing homes and welfare facilities for persons with disabilities.
2021 season workshop lineup and detailed introduction of each program (PDF *only in Japanese)
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Music Workshop
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January 2023
Festa with the King of the forest
Let's have a festival for welcoming our princess! Sing with smiles and dance together!
6–18 months, Age 3–6 (Pre-school children), Age 3–8 (Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants are prioritized.)
One Day Session
Let's create music with workshop leaders!
- Elementary school students and older
Where is the cheese?
Bon appétit! Enjoy your favorite dishes along with exquisite variety of music!
- 19–35 months, Age 3–6 (Pre-school children)
Workshop Concert—Saxophone Quartet
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6 months–6 years (Pre-school children)
November–December 2022
Workshop Concert—Flute & Piano
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6–35 months, Age 3–6 (Pre-school children)
Workshop Concert—Saxophone Quartet
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6 months–6 years (Pre-school children)
Bebe Waka (Lion Beat)
Let's make friends with a lion in the music jungle in Africa!
- 6–18 months, 19–35 months
Shall we sing?
Beginners are welcome! With your flexible body and relaxing sound from your voice, find new parts of your personality by singing and dancing!
- Age 50 and above (Free invitation for seniors aged 65 and above)
Open Sesame! The Storytelling Door—Arabian Nights Woven with Sounds
A plethora of surprises is in fairy tales. So let's delve into a fantasy world along with the music!
- 6 months–6 years (pre-school children)
One Day Chorus
If you love to sing, join us! All you need is your passion of singing to become a member of one day chorus!
- Elementary school students and older
World Music Adventure
Let's go on a journey to explore world music! 2 expedition members guide you!
- Age 3–4, Age 3–8
Rhythmic Kitchen
Let's cook a feast of sounds and rhythms! The ordinary kitchen tools become fun musical instruments!
- Elementary school students and older
Playing with Classic!—Music Time Travel
Interactive workshop concert led by workshop leaders from Casa da Música
- Age 3 and above
October 2022
September 2022
Shall we sing?
Beginners are welcome! With your flexible body and relaxing sound from your voice, find new parts of your personality by singing and dancing!
- Age 50 and above (Free invitation for seniors aged 65 and above)
August 2022
Happy and Friends
English is fun! Let's make friends all over the world by speaking and singing in English!
- Age 3-4, Age 5-8
Workshop Concert—Saxophone Quartet
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6 months-6 years (Pre-school children)
July 2022
Animal Detective
Let's go seek the hidden animals in the riddle zoo!
- 6–18 months, 19–35 months
Workshop Concert—Flute & Piano
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6 months–6 years (Pre-school children)
The Exciting Carnival of Coco and Pepe
¡Hola! Welcome to the lively Latin world! Let's get ready for the carnival moving to the Latin rhythm with chatty-funny birds, Coco & Pepe!
- 6–18 months, 19–35 months
Bebe Waka (Lion Beat)
Let's make friends with a lion in the music jungle in Africa!
- 6–18 months, 19–35 months, Age 3–4, Age 5–8
Sound Atelier
Touch, play, listen, and then?
Feel the world of musical instruments with your whole body!
- Age 3–4, Age 5–8
Rhythmic Kitchen
Let's cook a feast of sounds and rhythms! The ordinary kitchen tools become fun musical instruments!
- Elementary school students–Adults
Tora and Shiroko's story
Seeding together with a cat and a mouse. Let's grow the plant with lovely music!
- 19–35 months, Age 3–4
Barbara's Magic Potions
You cannot miss fun and mysterious music to make magic potions!How will the witch Barbara's new recipe turn out?
- 6 months–6 years (Pre-school children)
Body Beat
Let's discover our inborn power of music. Your body becomes an amazing percussion from head to toe!
- Elementary School Students–Adults
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and Casa da Música (Portugal) are in collaboration since 2013, and we have been in cooperation to build a relationship that will further our programs, through offerings including the dispatch of workshop leaders and lecturers from Casa da Música to the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, and the sending of our Workshop Leader Skills Training Program students to their site for training. Casa da Música, which means "House of Music," inaugurated in 2005 as the first institution in Portugal specialized in music aimed for enhancing the creativity of music, and commemorating the city of Porto's being designated as European Capital of Culture in 2001.
Casa da Música has hosted concerts and festivals that blend the diverse arts and cultures, and was the first in Portugal to work on fully-realized educational programs. Under their credo that "music is both art and what fosters the generous spirit in people," Casa da Música's mission is to have all types of people to experience music in all of its richness under their educational programs, and they run activities for the local communities and projects where citizens can actively participate.