Asia Plays 2019 Book Publishing and Launching

  • Organizer Name Umar Kayam Foundation
  • Indonesia
    • Theater
  • The Grant Program for Promotion of Cultural Collaboration
Grant Year
Fiscal Year 2020
Grant Amount
JPY 1,526,000
Country of Activity
オンライン, Cambodia, Vietnam

(FY 2019)
After organizing Asia Palywrights Meeting 2019, the committee felt it is important to publish the work collected in the meeting, as a way to connecting the plays to the neighborhood in Southeast Asia and Japan. The book will contain the plays presented in Asia Playwrights Meeting 2019. By Publishing and distributing the publication, we hoped that it will introduce the theatre scene in Asia, especially within the region, so it will open up a chance to collaborate between Asian artist.

(FY 2020)
After organizing Asia Palywrights Meeting 2019, the committee felt it is important to publish the work collected in the meeting, as a way to connecting the plays to the neighborhood in Southeast Asia and Japan. The book will contain the plays presented in Asia Playwrights Meeting 2019. By Publishing and distributing the publication, we hoped that it will introduce the theatre scene in Asia, especially within the region, so it will open up a chance to collaborate between Asian artist.

Related Projects
Indonesia Dramatic Reading Festival – Asian Playwrights Meeting 2019
https://grant-fellowship-db.jfac.jp/en/grant/cc1901/

Co-organizer(s), Cooperator(s)
Tra Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh Theatre Collective)
Komunitas Sakatoya
Sopheak Soung

From the Organizer

(FY 2019)
The project is planned before the Covid-19 outbreak in Asia, it should be held entirely in 2020 but because of the restriction during the pandemic we can only do the event in Vietnam and publication of the book in 2020. We will continue the project in 2021, and we hope to extend the cooperation between Indonesia Dramatic Reading Festival, Yayasan Umar Kayam and Japan Foundation for the future development of the project.

(FY 2020)
The project is planned before the Covid-19 outbreak in Asia, it should be held entirely in 2020 but because of the restriction during the pandemic we can only do the event in Vietnam and publication of the book in 2020. Finally, we had a chance to organize the event in Pnom Pen in 2021 through online platform. We will continue the project by organizing Asia Playwrights Meeting 2022.

Projects related to this Grantee

Organizer

Indonesia Dramatic Reading Festival – Asian Playwrights Meeting 2019

Countries of Activity

Theater Project on Environment Issue for Youth of the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan

Multitude of Peer Gynts – an Inter-Asian (Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam and Sri Lanka) Theater Collaboration

4th SEAFIC Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab program, sessions 3 (2020-2021)

Yamagata Documentary Dojo 3

Pwal! Pwal! Pwal! – Stay with Myanmar –

Measuring Social Enterprise Research Exchange and Learning in Asia (MSE-REAL)-Phase 3

Field

Once Upon A Time

Asian Arts Center Network

Multitude of Peer Gynts: An Inter-Asian (Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam and Sri Lanka) Theater Collaboration

The YOUKIZA & Youth Theatre of Vietnam 2016 collaboration “WILD DUCK ADDICTION”

one table two chairs meeting 2018

Asian Dramaturgs’ Network 2018 Satellite Meetings

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