As part of the opening festival for the Fukuoka Citizens’ Art Festival there will be a live music collaboration with the Music City Council of Fukuoka (MCCF) as well as a workshop with the Condors! 

The 60th Fukuoka Resident Art Festival

The Fukuoka Citizens’ Art Festival is an event held annually in the fall to allow the residents of the city to showcase their artistic talents and to be able to come and watch the productions of their fellow Fukuokans. The Fukuoka Civic Hall opened in 1962, and the following year the festival opened, making this year’s festival the 60th, a notable milestone. 

Music, fine art, drama, dance, traditional performances, literature, media-based works, and lifestyle culture all fall within the purview of the festival, and because of this broad appeal to a wide variety of art forms has become a much loved event by the local populace. This year some additional special events have been planned!

The 60th Fukuoka Citizens’ Art Festival Commemoration Project

Presentation of Workshop Projects (Main Event) [Create, Dance, and Captivate With the Condors! FaN Fun Performance]

This FaN Week use your body and express yourself with the power of dance! At the Fukuoka City Art Museum and Artist Café Fukuoka (not to be confused with the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum) members of the Condors will host a workshop where you’ll be able to develop a dance together with them. 

Having come in contact with various different artistic genres, these performances will be born out of an environment where the participants’ will be surrounded by art, their movements a way of giving physical form to their expression. 

With the art on display having an urban and nonchalant air, you will be able to discover new aesthetic perspectives as well as rediscover what makes Fukuoka so special.

[Event Details] 
Event Name: Create, Dance, and Captivate with the Condors! FaN Fun Performance
Date and Time: September 24th (Sun.), Starts at 13:30 with performances at 14:30 and 15;30 at changing locations. 
   *Will be held even under light rain. Depending on weather conditions there may be change of venue or delays.
Location: In the Fukuoka Castle area/Fukuoka Castle Remains -> Artist Café Fukuoka -> Fukuoka Art Museum (Planned)
   *Depending on circumstances there may be changes to this order.
Performers: Members of the Condors (Ryohei Kondo, Satoshi Ishibuchi, Ikumi Kurosu) and participants
Viewing: Free of charge (reservation is not required)

[Create, Dance, and Captivate With the Condors! FaN Fun Epilogue + Live Gospel Performance] ~The Culmination of the FaN Fun project! The Premier Video Compilation of the Project with Live Gospel Arranged Music!

The final project of the 60th Fukuoka Citizens’ Art Festival [Create, Dance, and Captivate with the Condors! FaN Fun Project]. To cap off the festival there will be a video premier that compiles all of the various artwork that has been displayed up to that point. 

This time the video will debut together with an a cappella arrangement of [Beat goes on], a song created for the purposes of creation, with a gospel chorus group headed by Ms. Kantake of the MCCF (Music City Council Fukuoka). Also, with Christmas right around the corner, there will be several songs to get everybody into the holiday spirit. 

You couldn’t ask for a better way to round off these 3 months of artistic festivities.

[Event Details] 
Event Name: Create, Dance, and Captivate with the Condors! FaN Fun Epilogue + Gospel Live
Date and Time: December 23rd (Sat.), Starts at 15:00 (Planned)
Location: In the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum 7F Art Café (Fukuoka City, Hakata Ward, Kawabatamachi 3-1 Riverrain Center Building)
Video Performance: Members of the Condors (Ryohei Kondo, Satoshi Ishibuchi, Ikumi Kurosu) and participants
Performers: Maiko Kantake (Music City Council Fukuoka Director, Japanese Gospel Music Council Director) 
Viewing: Free of charge (reservation is not required)