Hiroshi Maruyama - Director

Hiroshi Maruyama - Director

Oct
13
Sara Ajnnak's Joiks Transport Audience to Sápmi

Sara Ajnnak's Joiks Transport Audience to Sápmi

Sara Annak's clear voice echoed through the Sakima Art Museum in Ginowan, Okinawa, accompanied by the indigenous peoples depicted in
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Sep
21
Welcome to the exhibition ‘Resistance and Resilience’ by two contemporary Indigenous artists: Tomas Colbengtson and Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter

Welcome to the exhibition ‘Resistance and Resilience’ by two contemporary Indigenous artists: Tomas Colbengtson and Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter

A view from the roof of the Sakima Art Museum, photo by Tomas ColbengtsonThe legacy of colonialism remains evident in
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Aug
19
Upcoming: 'Resistance and Resilience' exhibition at Sakima Art Museum

Upcoming: 'Resistance and Resilience' exhibition at Sakima Art Museum

Photo: Sakima Art Museum from its websiteWe are honoured to be co-hosting the 'Resistance and Resilience' exhibition with the Sakima
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Jul
19
Global Conversations, Local Commitments: Decolonising Futures in Okinawa

Global Conversations, Local Commitments: Decolonising Futures in Okinawa

Photo: Madoka Hammine at Okinawa International University, 13 July 2025.
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Jul
15
Reimagining Justice: Final Decolonizing Futures Seminar Unites Art, Activism, and Indigenous Knowledge in Okinawa!

Reimagining Justice: Final Decolonizing Futures Seminar Unites Art, Activism, and Indigenous Knowledge in Okinawa!

Photo: Aika Higashimori, 12 July 2025Kamrul Hossain (Adjunct Professor at the CEMiPoS, and Research Professor at the Arctic Centre of
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Jun
22
Amareya Theatre & Guests and Higaza Theatre Perform for Decolonizing Futures

Amareya Theatre & Guests and Higaza Theatre Perform for Decolonizing Futures

Atelier Mekaru Base in Naha, Okinawa, By courtesy of Shōichi Tōyama
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Jun
12
The Art Exhibition Combined with Academic Sessions to Come

The Art Exhibition Combined with Academic Sessions to Come

"Sami boy" 2022 Enamel on bent float glass (Height 60 cm Width 40 cm Depth 15 cm) Tomas Colbengtson
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Apr
13
Final Call For Abstracts for the Final Decolonizing Futures Conference in Ryukyus/Okinawa

Final Call For Abstracts for the Final Decolonizing Futures Conference in Ryukyus/Okinawa

After two editions in 2023 and 2024, the Decolonising Futures Seminar will conclude this July with a third seminar in
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Mar
29
Urgent Announcement regarding the Final Decolonizing Futures Conference in Ryukyus/Okinawa

Urgent Announcement regarding the Final Decolonizing Futures Conference in Ryukyus/Okinawa

On 28 March we heard from Okinawa International University that they won't be able to host the Interdisciplinary Seminar scheduled
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Mar
28
Nick Declares his Statement of Solidarity with the Ainu Neno An Ainu Association

Nick Declares his Statement of Solidarity with the Ainu Neno An Ainu Association

I am a second year Master's student in the Information and Communication Engineering program at Kitami Institute of Technology in
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