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公益社団法人　日本児童青少年演劇協会

Japan Association of theatre for Children and Young People

In 1948 it was first established as Children’s Playwright Association, and in 1958 it changed its name to Japan Children’s Theatre Association due to development of children’s theatre. In 1969 it was approved as an incorporated association so as to get the governmental subsidy. In April 2013, it was approved as a public cooperation and changed its name to Japan Association of Theatre for Children and Young People.

The President is Fumie Naiki and the number of member is 242 consisted of theatre artists, researchers, and schoolteachers.

The main activities are as follows:

  1. Organizing “Children’s Theatre Local Tour” with the national and local governments’ subsidies for children in remote areas.
  2. Publishing the monthly magazine, “Children’s Theatre”.
  3. Facilitating workshops, such as “Summer Workshop of Theatre Games for Infants” for children and young people.
  4. Subsidizing of “Ochiai-Sozaburo Foundation for TYA”.
  5. Holding various kinds of study groups.

1948年、日本児童劇作家協会として設立。児童演劇の普及発展と共に、58年に日本児童演劇協会と改称。69年、社団法人として認可され、国からの助成をより確実なものとしていく。2013年公益法人に移行名称変更。会長・内木文英。現在会員数298名。演劇人、作家および研究者、幼小中高の教師で構成される。主な活動は次の通り。

  1. 国からの助成による。山間へき地の児童青少年を対象に「児童青少年演劇地方巡回公演」。
  2. 月刊『児童青少年演劇』の発行。
  3. 「落合聰三郎児童青少年演劇基金」による助成活動。
  4. 「幼児の劇あそび夏季講習会」ほか、児童青少年演劇の講習会の開催。
  5. 「斎田喬戯曲賞」「協会賞」などの顕彰活動。
  6. 各種研究会の開催。

日本児童・青少年演劇劇団協同組合（児演協）

Japan Union of Theatre Companies for Children and Young People

What is JIENKYO?

It has been almost 39 years since JIENKYO, short in Japanese for Japan Union of Theatre Companies for Children and Young People, started in 1975. The union now has 64 professional companies in various genres such as musical, straight play, puppet play, shadow play, pantomime, and folk performing arts, all for children and young audiences. Since its start, JIENKYO has worked with teachers to develop ‘theatre in education’ style at school, and also with parents to enlarge ‘Oyako Gekijo’ and ‘Kodomo Gekijo’ (both are associations for family audience system particular in Japan) movements.

In 2001, the Fundamental Law for Promoting Culture and Arts was at long last put into effect to support to theatre for children. It was for the first time for TYA in Japan to be officially recognized by law to get supported. In spite of that, JIENKYO is facing a hard time in finance caused by several facts; decrease in child-population, change in the school system, and financial difficulties in local governments.

At the same time, however, there arises public opinions pointing that it is important for children to access to live theatre performances for their lively growth.

日本児童・青少年演劇劇団協同組合（略称：児演協）の前身、日本児童・青少年演劇劇団協議会が結成（1975年）されて３９年。子どものための多様なジャンルの舞台芸術を上演する専門団体６４団体（演劇、人形劇、ミュージカル、影絵、パントマイム、民俗芸能等）が加盟している。学校の先生方と共同した学校における演劇教室の実施、お母さん方との子ども劇場おやこ劇場運動の展開等に注力している。2001年に念願の文化芸術振興基本法が施行され、子どものため舞台芸術支援が法によって初めて認知され支援が始まるも、近年の少子化、学制の改革、自治体の財政難が活動に大きな影を落としている。子どもの成長にとって生の舞台芸術にふれることが大事という世論が起こっている。

公益財団法人　ニッセイ文化振興財団

Nissay Culture Foundation

Nissay　Culture　Foundation　was founded in order to promote arts and culture in Japan, providing quality performing arts with Nissay Theatre as a core.

Since our start, while producing quality performances, we have trained actors, singers, directors, and stage technicians as well, and worked to increace art-lovers population in performing arts as follows:

1.”Nissay Masterpiece Theatre”

In 1964 we started this project to enrich children’s(young people’s) heart and mind with quality performing arts, inviting for free every year. In total by now we have had over 7,700,000 young people enjoy our live performing arts.

2.”Nissay Opera Theatre” for young people:

This is a project started in 1979 for high school students to have them enjoy opera as a synthetic art of music, drama, and fine art for the ‘out of school’ activity. The amount now reached to over 330,000 students who enjoyed our live operas.

3.”Nissay Theatre Family Festival”:

Since 1993 we have held performing atrs festivals for family audience.

From among Japanese performing arts we have produced operas, plays, concerts, Japanese traditional performing arts (kabuki, kyogen ,rakugo etc).

4.”Nissay Theatre Stage Forums” :

This project started in 1993 to train young stage technicians by master-class artists to support and encourage young ones.

5.”Nissay Backstage Award”:

We founded this award in 1995 to appreciate the important work of stagehand workers who have seldom come out in the sunny side and been suffering from less successors.

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  1. 優れた舞台芸術を通じて児童の心を豊かに育むことを願い、小学生を学校単位で無料招待する、こどものためのミュージカル・プレイ「ニッセイ名作劇場」を1964年に発足。１年の中断もなく38年間で560万人を超えた。
    ’98年に35回目を迎え、累計の招待児童数は500万人を越えた。
  2. 中・高校生を対象にした青少年のための「日生劇場オペラ教室」を1979年に発足。
    23年間で約28万人の生徒に低廉な料金で本格的なオペラを提供している。
  3. 日生劇場開場30周年を記念して、’93年よりご家族向けに低廉な料金で質の高い舞台芸術を紹介する「国際ファミリーフェスティバル」を発足。これまでにイットロ少女合唱団（チェコ）、テルツ合唱団（ドイツ）、京劇（中国）、ペーパーバックプレイヤーズ（アメリカ）、バリ島のこどもの踊りとガムラン（インドネシア）、ミュンヘンフィルハーモニーによる「子どものための室内楽コンサート」（ドイツ）、ミネアポリス子供劇場（アメリカ）、シアター・テラ（オランダ）、テアトル・ド・ロイ