![]() ![]() ![]() The performance areas host live music, dance, fashion shows and much more – offering sufficient choice so that there really is something for everyone. Within seconds of entering, I was confronted with delicately painted umbrellas, brightly painted bodies, a man with a fish for a head, a metallic blue frog, and serene photographs of flowers – and the variety of works didn’t get any less diverse from there on in. ![]() There’s jewellery, paintings, body art, photographs, sculpture and video installations, all jumbled up next to each other. You could spend all day wandering from booth to booth, at each one encountering a distinct style of art, and very often a different medium too. The main halls are filled with row upon row of tiny booths, all staffed by people keen to show off their artistic qualities. There is so much creativity crammed into one room that you would think all the creative potential in the world had been bagged up and brought to Tokyo, but in fact the vast majority of participants are from Japan. One glance should be enough to tell you that Deisgn Festa attracts a very diverse range of attendees (CC)ĭesign Festa’s philosophy is that it’s open to ‘original art’ of any genre – and attendance at any Design Festa will allow you to confirm that it does indeed encompass just about every form of art imaginable. In all, it fills four of the huge halls of the ‘Tokyo Big Sight’ exhibition centre. Held on two weekends a year, once in May and once in November, it comprises over 2,700 individual booths, as well as performance spaces, projection areas, live music stages, and even a mini theatre. Only in Japan: Products you’ll find nowhere elseĭancing is one of the many art forms on display (CC)ĭesign Festa is a celebration of all things artistic and creative – and on a scale that can only be described as ‘very Tokyo’. ![]()
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