About the event

Multidisciplinary cultural programme as part of OkiNoWar Week, connecting Okinawa, São Paulo, and Berlin | Workshops + Exhibitions + Screenings + Performances

Riko Sugama, Thaís Omine, Victor Kinjo, Nanyō Unten, Hiroya Maeda, Aki Maeda, Toyomitsu Higa, Akihito Yagi, Takumi Hosokawa, Ayaka Nakazato, Rita Sugama, Olga Futemma, André Okuma, Igor Shin, Marcia Vaitsman, Makoto Inoue, Riko Berlin Sanshin Schule

YUI (結) is a concept rooted in Okinawa, referring to human connection, mutual support, communal care, and living together through interdependence. This programme expands the philosophy of YUI onto a broader, planetary scale, moving across … https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2026/planetary-yui/ →

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/ →