About the event

A part of the Bwa Kayiman Program | Installation + Performative Interventions | Free entry

Riko Sugama, Toyomitsu Higa, Victor Kinjo, Thaís Omine, Hiroya Maeda, Nanyō Unten, Akihito Yagi, Ayaka Nakazato, Takumi Hosokawa, Rita Sugama, Aki Maeda

In English, Okinawan, and Japanese with consecutive translation in English

Shaped by the consequences of the Second World War, decades of US occupation, and cultural repression, the people of Okinawa have developed non-violent forms of resistance over the past decades through dance, song, storytelling, food, and prayer. Rejecting violence, these strategies … https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/bwa-kayiman-crossing-the-mangrove/nuchi-gafu-du-shidi-gafu →

About OkiNoWar Week

OkiNoWar WEEK is an international cultural project that brings Okinawa into a wider global conversation on colonialism, militarism, non-violence, human rights, sovereignty, identity, and collective memory.

The name combines »Okinawa« and »No War«. It carries both a refusal — not to allow Okinawa to become a frontline of war again — and a commitment to share the knowledge, philosophies, and cultural practices that Okinawan people have carried through histories of violence, occupation, displacement, and cultural suppression.

Through Ryūkyūan performing arts, crafts, karate, film, photography, contemporary art, and dialogue, OkiNoWar WEEK approaches culture not simply as heritage to be preserved, but as a living form of knowledge — one through which memory, identity, resistance, care, and ways of living together continue to be practiced and reimagined … https://okinowarweek.com/ →