Kyoto Tachibana University Hosts "Tachibana School of Liberal Arts Ukon" - A Place to Learn to Enrich Your Life Tachibana Liberal Arts School Ukon Start accepting applications for the second semester of 2023

Kyoto Tachibana University (Yamashina-ku, Kyoto; President: Eiko Hibino) has been offering a public course "Tachibana Liberal Arts School Ukon" since May 2023, aiming to provide a place to learn to deeply appreciate "living" and enrich one's life.

Eight lecturers have been selected for the second term (second semester of 2023), and applications for students began on September 1, 2023. The lecturers are soprano singers, arctic adventurers, writers, poets, etc., and will speak on the theme of "Care for Opening Yourself - Lessons on 'Connecting'".

The Tachibana School of Liberal Arts, Ukon, aims to create a tolerant society that is based on the spirit of "care" by rethinking the relationship between oneself and others through "learning together" while questioning the nature of nature and life, the nature of society, and our way of life.

Ukon Dean Michikazu Kono (editor, reading guide, and visiting professor at Ukon) will serve as a learning navigator in each class. This is an open lecture open to everyone.

Tachibana Liberal Arts School Ukon Key Visual

Outline of the second term of the Tachibana Liberal Arts School Ukon

Date & Time: 8 sessions from November 4, 2023 (Sat) to February 24, 2024 (Sat)

Place ： QUESTION 7th floor "Creative Commons

　　　　　　　　 390-2 Shimomaruya-cho, Kawaramachi-Dori Oike-Sagaru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto

Capacity: 100 people per session (first-come-first-served basis), face-to-face

Fee: 15,000 yen for all 8 sessions,

　　　　　　　　 2,500 yen per class for each class.

Registration: Please register at the special website of Ukon, the Weibana School of Liberal Arts.

Special website: https://www.tachibana-u.ac.jp/ukon/index.html

Special Offer: For those who register for all sessions, you will receive the following special offer,

　　　　　　　　 The following special gifts will be offered to those who register for the program in a lump sum.

　　　　　　　　 (1) November 3 (Friday, holiday)

　　　　　　　　　　 Invitation to the screening of "White Hand Chorus NIPPON freude!

　　　　　　　　　　 Invitation to the screening

　　　　　　　　 (2) Original goods from Ukon, the Weibana Liberal Arts School

　　　　　　　　 (3) Free on-demand viewing of the second term classes

Inquiries: Secretariat of the Ukon Office of the Weibana Liberal Arts School

　　　　　　　　 (Kyoto Tachibana University, Continuing Education and Correspondence Division)

　　　　　　　　TEL： 075-574-4335 MAIL： ukon@tachibana-u.ac.jp

Overall theme: Care for Opening Yourself - Lessons on "Connecting

＜Outline of the second class (theme, date and time, lecturer, profile)＞

(1) White Hand Chorus--Inclusive Future Connected by Music

Date: Saturday, November 4, 2023, 14:00-15:30

Lecturer: Erika Colon (soprano singer/artistic director of White Hand Chorus NIPPON)

Born in Venezuela. After studying pedagogy at the University of the Sacred Heart and graduate school, she graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in England. While performing in Japan and abroad, she also teaches music to children with visual, hearing, and other disabilities as the artistic director of White Hand Chorus NIPPON.

(2) Learning from Angel Care--Mourning for Father under the Corona

Date: Friday, November 17, 2023, 19:00-20:30

Lecturer: Hirokazu Yanase / Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts Research and Education, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1964. After working at Nikkei BP as an editor and advertising producer for magazines, books, and web media, he has been in his current position since 2018. He is the author of "National Highway 16: The Road that Created 'Japan'" and "My Father's Nokin. Co-authored "How to Protect 'Miracle Nature'" and "Mixing Education.

(3) Science for Brain and Mind

Date: Friday, December 1, 2023, 19:00-20:30

Lecturer: Yukiko Motomura (Editorial Writer, Mainichi Newspapers)

After graduating from Kyushu University with a bachelor's degree in education, Ms. Motomura joined the Mainichi Newspapers. After working as a reporter in the Science and Environment Department of the Tokyo Head Office and as the head of the same department, she became an editorial writer in 2019. She writes a regular column, "Water Theory," in the morning edition of the Mainichi Shimbun. He specializes in science communication. His recent book is "The Tricks of Science" (Mainichi Newspaper Publishing Co., Ltd.). His hobbies are hiking in the mountains and Sudoku.

(4) The Return of the Polar Adventurer: For Children Now

Date: Friday, December 15, 2023, 19:00 - 20:30

Lecturer: Yasunaga Ogita (Arctic adventurer)

Born in 1977 in Kanagawa Prefecture. Arctic adventurer. He was the first Japanese to reach the South Pole on foot alone, without resupply. He received the 22nd Naomi Uemura Adventure Award. His book "Thinking Legs" won the 9th Tadao Umesao Mountain and Exploration Literature Award. PIHOTEK: Walking with the Wind in the North Pole", a picture book co-authored with Nana Inoue, won the 28th Japan Picture Book Award Grand Prize.

(5) What I saw on my journey to the Roots: From the history of Koreans in Japan to the next generation

Date: Friday, January 12, 2024, 19:00-20:30

Lecturer: Natsuki Yasuda (Vice President of Dialogue for People, a certified NPO, photojournalist)

Natsuki Yasuda has covered refugees, poverty, and disasters in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Japan. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake, she has been documenting the disaster areas, focusing on Rikuzentakata City. He is the author of "Nationality, Will, and Letter to My Brother: Beyond the Journey to the Roots" (Heureka) and other books.

(6) With the Unknown People: Three Years in a Rescue Home

Date: Friday, January 26, 2024, 19:00-20:30

Lecturer: Taichi Miyota (writer, former life support worker at a relief facility)

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1994. After graduating from university, he worked as a life support worker at a "relief facility," a "last safety net" for homeless people and prison inmates. She is the author of the book "Yorobenai 100-nin no Soba ni Iru (Staying by the side of 100 people who can't sleep). I am with 100 people who can't stay by my side," and "I am with the relief facility Hinotani En.

(7) Facing and Listening to Writing: The Work of a Proofreader

Date: Friday, February 9, 2024, 19:00 - 20:30

Lecturer: SATOKO MUTA (Proofreader)

Born in Tokyo in 1977. Proofreader. Her books include Eisuke Wakamatsu's "The Secret of Sadness," Masafumi Goto's "Sing All Right, No Matter How Many Times," Naokora Yamazaki's "How to Have Confidence in an Ugly Person," Riko Murai's "Family," and many others. He is also the author of "Bun ni Ataru.

(8) Why the English Translation of the Complete Man'yoshu?

Date: Saturday, February 24, 2024, 14:00-15:30

Lecturer: Peter J MacMillan (Translator, Poet)

Born in Ireland. Visiting professor at Sagami Women's University, part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo, and Musashino University. Author of many books, including "Tasting Manyoshu in English" and "Traveling Matsuo Basho. He is a regular contributor to the Asahi Shimbun and Kyoto Shimbun. He also appears on NHK WORLD and KBS Kyoto Radio.

Profile of Michikazu Kono, Dean of the School

Michikazu Kono was born in Okayama City in 1953. Graduated from the Department of Russian Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, and joined Chuo Koron-Sha (now Chuo Koron Shinsha) in 1978. He has worked mainly in magazine editing, serving as editor-in-chief of Fujin Koron and Chuo-Koron. After serving as editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine "Thinker" at Shinchosha, he joined Almost a Day, Inc. From April 2022, he will be a visiting professor at Kyoto Tachibana University. He is the author of "Words Survived This Way" (Mishima-sha) and "Thinkers Read Books" (Kadokawa Shinsho). He is active as a reading guide and editor.