Naha City
Regional round table to think about a new place to talk about Okinawa
Can messages from “places” where Okinawan people talk about Okinawan content play a role in improving the situation surrounding Okinawan literature?
- Lecture / Seminar
- Real-life event
Schedule
2025.09.12（金）
Open：18:00 Start：18:30 End：21:30
Venue
Naha City Kosei-kai Employee's Welfare Hall Multipurpose Hall 〒900-0006 1-1-2 Omoromachi, Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, Water and Sewerage Bureau Building B Building 3F
Charge
Participation fee is free
Contents
Can a message from a “place” where Okinawan people talk about Okinawan content play a role in improving the situation surrounding Okinawan literature?
The “Butoya & Lewis Okinawa Literature Fund,” established by the Mirai Fund Okinawa Foundation, is a fund aimed at introducing Okinawan literature to the world. Even now, in preparation for the start of grants in the future, dialogues are continuing with various people about who and what kind of grants will be provided to achieve their goals. In the previous round table discussion, even in a negative environment where literary content was not being read,
・The importance of the fact that the “place” of conversation between Okinawan people has healed those “wounds”
・In order for literature to become popular again, it is important to create a “place” through content by readers, writers, and connectors of literature, and to reconnect with content
That has been confirmed.
At this round table, we will consider the direction of the “Butoya & Lewis Okinawa Literature Fund” grant program at the same time as a “place” to talk about Okinawa and a “place” to enjoy Okinawan content.
Discussion Contributor
Tosei Taira (Deputy Representative Director, Mirai Fund Okinawa)
seated person
Miho Tokeji (owner of Kujira Books & Zou Cafe)
Kiyoshi Kabe (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Law and Commerce, Okinawa University)
Takuya Kaneshima (playwright)
Yu Shiroma (Okinawa Times Publishing Contents Department Deputy Director)
Matsuda Hotaru (in charge of Okinawa Literature Award, Okinawa Prefecture Culture and Arts Promotion Association)
Moderator: Takako Yasutaniya (Okinawa Program Officer, Mirai Fund Foundation)
Recorder: Kiichi Miyamichi (Representative Director and Secretary General, Waku Waku, NPO Machinaka Research Institute)
Organizer: Mirai Fund Okinawa
Cooperation: NPO Machinaka Research Institute Waku Waku
Capacity：50 people
Advance applications are required