Entertainment Expo & Performances in Osaka
Starting off with the Entertainment Expo, musicians from various countries will at an elementary school in Osaka.
In the evening, there will be collaborative performances featuring Japanese and overseas bands at Padoma in Kobe.
Conference and "Music With Fashion"
On the second day, promo sessions, a workshop, a networking session and a panel discussion will happen at the conference venue in Osaka, Dawn Center. Also, KMC Artists will be doing collaborative live performances, along with a couple of fashion shows!
10:00 - Fashion Model Workshop
Rey Aoi will demonstrate key points for modeling, walking, and posing on the runway. Interested participants will also be able to join the afternoon "Music With Fashion" fashion shows as runway models.
12:00-12:45 Networking Session
Meet with other artists, presenters, panelists, KMC Staff and related organizations at the performance space for business talk, networking. So have your promo information, CDs and flyers, and business cards ready to start making connections.
13:00 - Seminar
Creation from Destruction: Black Music, Dance, and Radical Hope
An interactive session that session explores how Black musical traditions transform histories of struggle into expressions of identity, resilience, and radical hope. Through spoken word, cultural analysis, music, movement, and call-and-response, participants will experience how sound and the body can foster collective memory, cultural agency, and cross-cultural solidarity, with connections to contemporary global expressions such as Japanese hip-hop. This talk will be given mainly in Japanese, with relevant parts spoken in both English and Japanese as needed by those in attendance.
14:45 - Panel Discussion
“Why are there only 10 people at our show?” Pt. 2
Guest panelists discuss about promotion ideas, and how they go about getting people out to see live performances in modern-day Japan.
(Pt. 1 details here KMC 2009)
Performances in Osaka
For the final day, KMC Artists will perform along with several local artists at Panhead Groove in downtown Osaka.
