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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.
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Music
Workshop
Various Online Programs Available on YouTube!
2024 season workshop lineup
and detailed introduction of each program (PDF *only in Japanese)
April 2025–September 2025
Musica Piccola
The long-awaited concert is going to be held today! Let's play fabulous music with the maestro!
Age 3–4,
Age 5–8
One Day Session
Let’s create music with the workshop leaders!
- Elementary
School Students–Adult
Museum of Wonders
A new encounter with music awaits you here in this Museum of Wonder, where you can
touch and see sounds.
Let’s pick up and feel them, walking around the museum together.
- Age 4-6
(Pre-school children/for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing participants), Age
5-8 (for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing participants)
Shiny! Fluffy! The Weather Research Lab
Let’s play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and feel the weather through sounds and your body!
- 6-18
months, 19-35 months, Age 3-4
Traveling Europe
Let’s take a train with George and Mary and travel around Europe along with popular classical music!
- 6-18
months, 19-35 months
American Music Party Vol.2
It’s Show Time!!
Are you ready to jump into the exciting world of American music?
- 3
years-Adults
Welcome to Classical Music!—An Invitation to Ballet Music
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6 months–6
years (Pre-school children)
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-4 years,3–6 years (Pre–school children)
Parum! Pum! Pum! Percussion!
Beat and Roll!
Let’s take a look at the world of percussions and make them sound together!
- Elementary School Students–Adults
Tuneful Candy Shop
Pat it, mix it, and fluff it up! Let's make tuneful candy!
- Age 3–4,Age 5-8
Welcome to Classical Music!—Flute
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6 months–6 years (Pre–school children)
One Day Session
Let’s create music with the workshop leaders!
- 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!
- Age 3–4
Welcome to Cafe Ensemble!—Today’s Special: BIZET”
Enjoy a delightful moment with a cup of music brewed with unique sounds!
- Age 50 and above (Free invitation for those aged 65 and above)
Migo's Magic Vol.2
Let’s save Amigo with the power of music and Migo!
- 6–18 months,19-35 months
Shall we sing?
Beginners and repeaters welcome! Find another you by singing and dancing with your flexible body and relaxing voice!
- Age 50 and above (Free invitation for those aged 65 and above)
Workshop Concert—Violin & Cello & Piano
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6 months–6 years (Pre-school children)
Body, Sound, Sing
Your voice and Everyone's voice, Your tone and Everyone's tone. Find the only music you can't find anywhere else, created with various sounds.
- Elementary School Students–Adults
Welcome to Omatsuri Island!
Enjoy Japanese festivals together with fun-loving friends!
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months, Age 3–4
Rhythmic Kitchen
Let's cook a feast of sounds and rhythms! The ordinary kitchen tools become fun musical instruments!
- Elementary
School Students–Adults
Baby Cricket
Let's go on an adventure with two friendly crickets and see how the nature sounds from mountains and valleys transform into music!
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months
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–Adults
Jazz Bar for Babies
That cool jazz bar is also open tonight! Let’s enjoy jazz music through singing, dancing, and swinging!
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months, Age 3–4
One More Once Upon a Time
Let's go on an adventure full of dreams!
Alice and her friends are back.
Hear a spell with mysterious voice and see what happens.
- 6 - 6 years old(Pre-school children)
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)
October 2024–March 2025
Welcome to Omatsuri Island!
Enjoy Japanese festivals together with fun-loving friends!
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months, Age 3–4
Shiny! Fluffy! The Weather Research Lab
Let’s play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and feel the weather through sounds and your body!
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months
American Music Party Vol.2
It’s Show Time!!
Are you ready to jump into the exciting world of American music?
- 3 years–Adults
Welcome to Classical Music!—String Quartet
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6 months–6
years (Pre-school children)
Squeaky Cleaning! Musiclean!
Let’s clean up to the rhythm!
- Elementary
School Students–Adults
Music flower
Let the flower seeds sprout and grow into bloom with a help of sun and rain fairies!
- Age 3–4, Age
5–8
Shall we sing?
Beginners and repeaters welcome! Find another you by singing and dancing with your flexible body and relaxing voice!
- Age 50 and
above (Free invitation for those aged 65 and above)
Jazz Bar for Babies
That cool jazz bar is also open tonight! Let’s enjoy jazz music through singing, dancing, and swinging!
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months, Age 3–4
Concert under the sea—The secret of the mysterious treasure box
Let's work together with our friends under the sea to crack open the world treasure box!
- 6 months–4
years, 3–6 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, Age 3–4
Monkey Music Lab
Japanese children's songs that everyone knows get jazz and rock makeovers! The fun music experiments by Kikki and Mon-chan are ready to start.
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months, Age 5–8
Sound Atelier
Touch, play, listen, and then?
Feel the world of musical instruments with your whole
body!
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months, Age 3–4
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Original Workshop A (New Production)“Hello to the World Behind the Mirror!”
The magic word is “Mirror!”
Let’s make friends in the world behind the mirror!
- 19–35 months
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,
19–35 months, Age 3–4
Baby Cricket
Let's go on an adventure with two friendly crickets and see how the nature sounds from mountains and valleys transform into music!
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Original Workshop B (New Production) “Hungry Béla and the Sounding Tree”
Béla enters the forest to look for tasty fruits. Suddenly, he hears something.
Let’s
enjoy some Eastern European music!
- 6–18 months
Museum of Wonders
- Age 4-6
(Pre-school children/for deaf and hard-of-hearing participants), Age 5-8 (for deaf
and hard-of-hearing participants), 1st-3rd grade elementary school students (for
deaf and hard-of-hearing participants)
Rhythmic Kitchen
Let's cook a feast of sounds and rhythms! The ordinary kitchen tools become fun musical instruments!
- Elementary
School Students–Adults
Musica Piccola
The long-awaited concert is going to be held today! Let's play fabulous music with the maestro!
- Age 3–4, Age
5–8
Cha Cha Pum
Casa da Música’s very popular concert is coming to Tokyo!
- Elementary
School Students–Adults
Animal Detective
Let’s go seek the hidden animals in the riddle zoo!
- 6–18 months,
19–35 months, Age 3–6 (Pre-school children)
Welcome to Classical Music!—Violin & Cello & Piano
Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing
- 6 months–6
years (Pre-school children)
Happy and Friends
Happy, an English speaker, has come to visit Toy’s room!
Let’s all be friends by
singing and dancing together.
- 19–35 months,
Age 3–6 (Pre-school children)
Workshop Leader Skills Training Program
Having a partnership with an overseas music institution which leads the state-of-the-art
educational programs, we offer training courses to develop a personnel who can share the joy of
music with new approaches to diverse people. The most outstanding participants will have a
chance to visit Casa da Música (Portugal) for attending the special training program!
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.