The Japan Foundation × Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) “BIOTOPE”

The Japan Foundation and Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) will cohost BIOTOPE, an exchange program for people involved in the performing arts in Japan and Southeast Asia. This program will be implemented through “Partnership to Co-create a Future with the Next Generation: WA Project 2.0,” a comprehensive people-to-people exchange initiative that aims to promote exchange among the next generation and develop human resources in Japan and ASEAN.

The initiatives of BIOTOPE will be mainly aimed at playwrights and advanced for three years from 2026 to 2028 with the following two main components.

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  1. 1.An incubation program for the next generation of Japanese and Southeast Asian artists
  2. 2.A performance-in-residence and exchange program featuring works by Southeast Asian artists
About BIOTOPE

“SPAC operates Shizuoka Performing Arts Park, a space featuring an accommodation lodge, rehearsal facility, and work studio, up in the mountains of the Nihondaira Plateau. I hope to develop the park into an organic space (biotope) where new practices are born as a result of various individuals gathering, coexisting, connecting with each other, and engaging in cultural genetic exchange centering around the performing arts.”

（Ishigami Natsuki, Director of BIOTOPE）

【Credits】 Organized by the Japan Foundation and Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC)

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Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC)
Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) was founded in 1995 by Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. SPAC is the first publicly founded cultural organization in Japan to have residential actors as well as a technical and administrative staff that manages its own theatre venues and facilities for artistic purposes. As a creative base of the performing arts, it generates programs of creation, presentation, education and also programs of exchange / collaboration with artists and institutions of Japan and abroad. SUZUKI Tadashi was the first General Artistic Director of SPAC since 1997 through to March, 2007. In April, 2007, MIYAGI Satoshi was appointed as the General Artistic Director and SPAC started its new phase under his direction. SPAC puts its efforts into various kinds of activities such as creating a variety of theatre pieces, organizing “World Theatre Festival Shizuoka”, inviting students to the theatre, developing theatrical human resources, touring abroad, enhancing outreaching program and many more.

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