Miyakobashi Yokocho drawings exhibition
| Dates: | 8 February 2016 - 19 February 2016 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Exhibitions |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| Venue opening hours: | Monday - Saturday: 10.00 - 16.30 and Thursdays: 10.00 - 19.00 |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Families, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Secondary schools |
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This exhibition explores Miyakobashi Yokocho in drawings, photographs and text. It reveals previously concealed glimpses into Japan’s changing urban culture. Miyakobashi Yokocho (Yokohama, Japan) is home to sixty-one lift-sized spaces: ‘sunakku’ (snack bars), frequented by business men, local residents and the occasional tourist alike.
Constructed in 1964, just in time for Tokyo’s last Summer Olympics, Miyakobashi Shopping Centre transformed a formerly cluttered black market area into an orderly urban marketplace. Over several decades, courageous women created independent livelihoods for themselves in converting Miyakobashi into the vibrant entertainment block it is today.
The narratives of Miyakobashi clients and proprietors provide an intimate account of small-scale urban transitions and synchronous cultural and social change; they expose the difficulties (and successes) faced by contemporary Japanese women; and they put into perspective current efforts to redevelop this along with similar urban areas in view of Tokyo’s forthcoming Summer Olympics 2020.
The exhibition builds on research in Yokohama, Japan, which was funded by the Daiwa Foundation, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the University of Manchester and the Manchester Metropolitan University.
Twitter: @61sunakku Hashtag: #61
Opening Night: Monday, 8 February 2016, 16.00 - 19.00
The Grosvenor Gallery
Manchester School of Art
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