Miro Ito’s joining Nara Silk Roads Symposium as a panelist, Heijo Palace, 19th October 2019
Nara Prefecture is hosting the 2019 Nara Silk Roads Symposium on Sat. 19th October, co-organized by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs as well as the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan. As a panelist, Miro Ito is joining this symposium whose key note speakers are invited from the Byzantine and Christian museum in Athens; Father Periandros Epitropakis, Director of Exhibition, Communication and Education as well as Ms. Effie Meramveliotaki, Curator of East Asian Collection, followed by…
Miro Ito speaks on “Hellenistic culture and Nara” at Tokyo’s Nara Mahoroba kan on 13 October 2019
As a guest lecturer Miro Ito is invited to speak on “Hellenistic culture and Nara – on occasion of the Annual Shosoin Exhibition” at Nara Mahoroba kan, Tokyo on 13th October 2019. Address: 1 Chome 6−2 Nihonbashimuromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo (+81 3-3516-3931) Talk time: 11:00 – 12:30 & 13:30 -15:00 Language: Japanese (admission Free) Advance reservation required: https://www.mahoroba-kan.jp/course.html
“Road of Light and Hope” arrives in Africa with Bardo Museum in Tunis on Sept. 21 2019
Our globally touring exhibition, Road of Light and Hope (La Route de la Lumière et l’ Espoir) now arrives on the African continent, with the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, as the 10th venue in the 8th country! To commemorate 50-years of the Japanese Embassy in Tunisia, it will start on 21st September 2019. Presenting 50 scroll format photographs (by Miro Ito), of select 8th century sculptures owned by the Tōdai-ji Temple and of 4 ancient masks of Tunisia and Greece, Road…
“Edo/Tokyo — Seen through it Edifices” participated in the Chicago Japan Fest, 16 June 2019
On behalf of Japan Camera Industry Institute, Media Art League, as a co-organizer, presented the compact version of our last exhibition: “Edo/Tokyo — Seen through its Edifices” at the Chicago Cultural Center on occasion of the Japan Festival Chicago, 16th June 2019. This event was hosted by the Chicago Japanese American Council and the Consulate-General of Japan in Chicago). http://japanfest-chicago.org/special-galleries/photo-exhibition-edo-tokyo-seen-through-its-edifices/
Photo Exhibition: “Edo/Tokyo – seen through its edifices” Special Talk Event: April 18th at 6:30pm (JIC Hall, Chicago)
Photo Exhibition: “Edo/Tokyo – seen through its edifices” Special Talk Event Thursday, April 18th at 6:30pm (JIC Hall, Chicago) Edo/Tokyo as experimental crossroads of “East meeting West” in architecture Introducing 50 historical photographs from an album entitled “Assorted Japanese Sightseeing Spots” brought back to Italy by an Italian Envoy/Cunt Barbolani 1877-1881, the exhibition “Edo/Tokyo – Seen through its Edifices” will be presented for the first time outside of Japan, from the 15th to 30th of April 2019 at the Japan Information Center…
Two speaker engagements at kick-off event of 120th Greece-Japan diplomatic ties (14.Jan) and artist talk at Athens’ Byzantine and Christian Museum ( 29.Jan.2019)
Following Miro Ito’s speaker engagement as co-organizer of the “Road of Light and Hope” at the kick-off event of the 120th anniversary of Greece-Japan diplomatic ties (14th January), she will hold a lecture accompanying the exhibition at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens on the 29th January, 2019 (@19:30). Our underlying theme of “Road of Light and Hope” is to show the universality permeating throughout the ancient Hellenistic/Buddhist heritage along the Silk Road as evidence of the unity of…
Athen’s Byzantine and Christian Museum is showing Road of Light and Hope: a Hellenistic Voyage to Nara as Evidence of Ancient Links between Greece and Japan (16th Jan.- 10th Feb. 2019)
At the commemorative ceremony of the 120th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Greece and Japan on the 14th of January, we had a very impressive opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge the historical exchanges back to 1300 years ago in the form of art whose Hellenistic influences can be evidently seen in Buddhist heritage of Nara’s Todai-ji Temple. Following speeches by the honourable Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece, Prof. George Katrougalos and Mrs. Aikaterini Dellaprta, Director of the Byzantine and Christian…
Exhibition & Speaking Engagements in Mexico City for “Road of Light and Hope” Nov.2018
It is a great honour and a blessing for our Media Art League to be able to send out a message that acknowledges and celebrates the unity of hearts between Mexico and Japan, through our exhibition, “Road of Light and Hope”, in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the United Mexican States. As part of the commemorative event on the 8th of November 2018, Miro Ito gave a speech entitled “Ancient Eurasian Wisdom for the Unity of East and…
Exhibition & Speaking Engagements in Chicago for “Signs of the Intangible” Nov.2018
Our touring exhibition “Signs of the Intangible” will arrive at its 2nd venue, JIC Hall / Consulate-General of Japan in Chicago on 1st November (running till the 28th /co-organized by Media Art League and Japan Camera Industry Institute). On the evening of the 13th, Miro Ito will hold her artist’s talk at the JIC Hall (@6:00PM) opening words by Consul-General Naoki Ito. Two of her movie shorts will also be featured and Shunso, dancer etraordinaire, will perform “Gigaku Ballet” that…