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SUMMARY:Noh and Kyogen Masks Demonstration Talk with Kitazawa Hideta with Jannette Cheong
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Mask-making Demonstration Talk \nRenowned mask-carver Kitazawa Hideta will be joined by author and producer of English-language noh Jannette Cheong\, to explore the process of designing\, carving and working with noh masks. Kitazawa is unique in the noh world in making new masks for innovative and experimental noh pieces\, including English-language noh\, as well as producing classical noh and kyogen (nohgaku) masks. He will demonstrate the different stages of carving\, offering a rare opportunity to understand how iconic noh masks are made for both traditional and contemporary noh. \nAt the end of this demonstration talk Kitazawa Hideta will undertake a book signing of his newly published book ‘Noh and Kyogen Masks: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Kitazawa Hideta. \nKitazawa Hideta is a wood sculptor and noh mask maker based in Tokyo. He learned traditional wood carving of Buddhist and Shinto statuary from his father\, Kitazawa Ikkyo\, and later studied noh mask carving. He currently produces classical noh and kyogen masks and has been designated a master craftsman by the Tokyo Metropolitan government. Kitazawa has also created numerous shinsaku “new” masks for foreign language noh productions\, notably those of Theatre Nohgaku\, as well as for other noh influenced plays. He has given workshops and demonstrations in Japan and internationally and a book on his work entitled Noh and Kyogen Masks will be published by Prestel in Autumn 2024. \n  \n \n  \nJannette Cheong is a poet\, playwright\, designer and Theatre Nohgaku-affiliated artist. London born\, she has been involved with education and artistic collaborations\ninternationally for almost 40 years. She is the author of the English noh Pagoda\, the first English noh using traditional noh techniques written by a British person\, toured by the Oshima Noh Theatre/Theatre Nohgaku (Europe 2009\, Asia 2011). Her ballet-noh-opera collaborative piece\, Opposites-InVerse\, was performed for Matsui Akira’s tribute programme: Noh Time Like the Present\, London (2017). Her English noh Between the Stones (Europe\, 2020) was again toured by Oshima Noh Theatre/Theatre Nohgaku. \nTogether with Richard Emmert she co-authored (and designed) Noh and Kyogen Masks: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Kitazawa Hideta. \nPart of the Nogaku education and outreach programme. Click here for the full programme. \nFeatured image: Oshima Kinue performs Pagoda at the National Noh Theatre\, Tokyo\, December 2009. Photo: Kitazawa Sohta[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/noh-and-kyogen-masks-demonstration-talk-with-kitazawa-hideta-with-jannette-cheong/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:*Cancelled* Online Talk: Professor Robert Arnott (Oxford): A Century of the Harappans:  Celebrating the Discovery of a Civilisation
DESCRIPTION:*Please note that this event has been cancelled*\n  \n \n  \nThe existence of this complex urban society that was the Indus or Harappan Civilisation\, remained unknown until the 20 September 1924. It was then that Sir John Marshall\, Director-General of Archaeology in the Raj\, announced its discovery in the pages of the Illustrated London News.  He named it the Indus Civilisation\, because the finds came from two sites in the Upper and Lower Indus Valley\, Harappa\, near Lahore in The Punjab and Mohenjo-daro in Sindh\, six hundred kilometres to the south. This discovery was based on the fieldwork of the Indian archaeologists R. B. Daya Ram Sahni at Harappa in 1921 and from 1923 and Rakhal Das Banerjee and Madhu Sarup Vats at Mohenjo-daro from 1922. It was shortly to be dated to the middle and late third millennium and the early part of the second millennium BCE. \nWe are reminded of Marshall’s background. Following studying classics at King’s College\, Cambridge and before his appointment in India\, his archaeological career was with the British School at Athens in the early years of the discovery of Minoan Crete. He was strongly influenced by Sir Arthur Evans and his discoveries at Knossos\, where he had worked unearthing of the Minoan Civilisation. He wanted to find his own. \nSince a century ago\, archaeological research both in modern India and Pakistan and even farther afield in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf has been constantly enlarging our knowledge. \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/professor-robert-arnott-oxford-a-century-of-the-harappans-celebrating-the-discovery-of-a-civilisation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240916T183000
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SUMMARY:Dr Robert Morton: Sir Rutherford Alcock: First British Minister to Japan (1859-1865)\, Consul (1844-1859) and Minister (1865-1870) to China
DESCRIPTION:The son of a village doctor\, Rutherford Alcock trained in medicine and became a battlefield surgeon\, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars there in the 1830s. In a major career shift\, he entered the consular service\, went to China\, and ended up as British Minister (the equivalent of today’s ambassador) to Japan and then China. This progression was unique\, indeed bizarre\, especially as every senior position he got was one he specifically said he did not want. Nonetheless\, he was the man who commenced Britain’s relations with Japan and introduced Japan’s arts and crafts to the UK\, in addition to playing a central role in Britain’s relationship with China. He was no rampant imperialist and expressed ambivalence about Britain’s position in East Asia as he contended with intractable issues like the opium trade and how to punish attacks on British interests without starting a war. This book fills a major gap in the study of Japan’s opening to the West from a British perspective\, as well as Britain’s relationship with East Asia as a whole\, through the eyes of a brilliant\, but complicated and contradictory figure.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-robert-morton-sir-rutherford-alcock-first-british-minister-to-japan-1859-1865-consul-1844-1859-and-minister-1865-1870-to-china/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T200000
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SUMMARY:The Life and Work of Noh Actor Akira Matsui (interviewed by Margaret Coldiron)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Akira Matsui is a master actor-teacher of the Kita School of Japanese classical noh theatre. Matsui was born in 1946 and began studying noh at the age of seven. He showed such talent that\, at age 12\, he became a “live-in apprentice” to Kita Minoru\, the 15th generation of noh masters of the Kita School (one of the five guilds of shite main role actors). From his firm foundation in tradition\, Matsui has experimented in intercultural fusions. He has acted in productions of plays by Shakespeare\, W.B. Yeats\, and Beckett\, and has written plays based on Rashoman and Hoichi. Together with American noh composer-performer Richard Emmert\, he has created a series of English Noh including St. Francis\, At the Hawk’s Well\, and Eliza. In addition\, he has choreographed noh-style dances to jazz ballads and to poetry by T.S. Eliot. In 1998\, he was designated an Important Intangible Cultural Asset by the Japanese government. In 2016\, Matsui was awarded an honorary doctorate by Royal Holloway\, University of London\, in recognition of his status as a Noh master and for his long record of achievement in bringing Noh to new international audiences. Join noh scholar Margaret Coldiron as Matsui reflects on his life\, his achievements\, and his belief that noh has much to offer contemporary international performance. \nDr Margaret Coldiron is a theatre director\, performer\, teacher and a specialist in Asian performance and masks. She is the author of Trance and Transformation of the Masked Actor in Japanese Noh and Balinese Dance Drama (Mellen Press 2004) and has published widely on masks\, Asian and intercultural performance and actor training. \nPart of the Nogaku education and outreach programme. Click here for the full programme. \nFeatured image: Matsui Akira performs Takasago at the Southbank Centre\, London\, January 2020. Photo: Clive Barda/ArenaPal[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/the-life-and-work-of-noh-actor-akira-matsui-interviewed-by-margaret-coldiron/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Dr Donna Brunero (NUS): Visiting the ‘Liverpool of the East’:  Singapore’s place in tours of Empire
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-donna-brunero-nus-visiting-the-liverpool-of-the-east-singapores-place-in-tours-of-empire/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T183000
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SUMMARY:Alice Casalini: The art of crossing over: Gandhāran pathways to nirvāṇa
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe art of Gandhāra—a region stretching across modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan—has often been heralded as prime example of proto-globalization: its rich and syncretic visual vocabulary that freely borrows from Hellenistic\, Iranian and Indian models easily lends itself to this discourse in the early centuries of the first millennium. Aquatic imagery in Gandhāra is one of the many lemmas in such vocabulary: nereids\, tritons\, and other sea monsters are commonly discussed as one of the figurative vehicles through which Hellenism reached Central and South Asia and took hold there. This talk\, however\, takes a different approach to this kind of images and explicitly asks what the role and function of aquatic imagery was within a Buddhist context. This talk demonstrates that the answer can be found in the Buddhist visual rhetoric of salvation. Through the careful analysis of several panels from the site of Andan Dheri\, in the Swat Valley\, and a series of preliminary reconstructions of the original architectural context of those panels depicting sea creatures\, I show that aquatic imagery was in fact a fundamental part of a specific iconographic program centered around metaphors of water-crossing—indeed\, one of the most enduring and popular metaphors of spiritual refinement meant to lead the devotee towards nirvāṇa. \nAlice Casalini received her MA in Chinese Studies from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and trained as an archaeologist at the Department of Archaeology and Museology of Peking University and with the Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan. She is currently a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/alice-casalini-the-art-of-crossing-over-gandharan-pathways-to-nirva%e1%b9%87a/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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