Yamagata City

♬Music events♬
🎷 Downtown Concert
[Free of charge]
Date : October 6 (Sun.)
Hours : 13:00~13:30
Venue : Yamagata City Kyodokan (inside Kajo Park)
Application period : September 10 (Tue.)
Capacity : 50 people (first come, first served)
[Mini concert of brass trio by Yamagata Symphony Orchestra]
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🎤 Children’s Song Day Concert in YAMAGATA 30th Anniversary
Special Concert “Let’s sing! Nursery rhymes are songs for everyone”
[Free of charge, numbered ticket required]
Sate : November 9 (Sat.)
Doors open : 13:00
Start time : 14:00
Venue : Yamagata City Civic Hall, Large Hall
Cast : Toshiko Matsukura, Baby Boo, and others
Numbered admission tickets will be distributed in early September
Distribution Locations
・Yamagata City Civic Hall
・Juichiya​ (main shop・Sakurada Avenue store)
・Yamagata Media Tower
・Yamagata City Public Library (Main Building and Central Community Center)
・Yamagata City Cultural Creative City Division
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🎹 Street Piano
Date : September 1 (Sun.)
Hours : 11:00~15:00
Location : Nanokamachi Square
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🎹 Yves Henry talks
Q1 Bechstein Piano Talk & Concert
[Free of charge, application required]
Date : September 15 (Sun.)
Hours : 17:00~
Venue : Yamagata Creative City Center Q1
Application period : August 19 (Mon.) to September 2 (Mon.)
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🥁 Marching band/brass band concert
[Free of charge, no application required]
Date : October 12 (Sat.)
Venue : Bunshokan (old prefectural office) front yard
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🎹 Atomic bomb piano
Twilight Jazz Concert
“Peace Session”
[Free of charge, no application required]
Date : October 12 (Sat.)
Hours : 17:00~19:00
Venue : Kajo Central 24th floor observation lobby

🍂Cultural Events🍂
🍵 Yamagata Downtown Tea Ceremony
[No application required]
*Numbered tickets will be distributed one hour before each seating.
Date : November 2 (Sat.) and 3 (Sun.)
Hours : 11:00~14:00
Venue : Former Chitosekan and other locations
Cost : 300 yen (sponsorship fee and snacks)
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📝 Yamagata Creative City International Conference 2024
– Creating a sustainable city through “literature” and “creative city” –
[Free of charge, application required]
Date : November 6 (Wed.)
Hours : 14:00~17:00
Venue : Yamagata Creative City Center Q1
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🍃 High school haiku event
Date : Scheduled for late October
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🎨Art in the city🎨
● Exhibition of paintings, calligraphy, flower arrangement, flower designs, etc. by volunteer members of arts and culture organizations
Date : September 9 (Mon) to September 13 (Fri.)
Hours : 8:30~17:15
Venue : Yamagata City Hall 1F

● Exhibition of paintings by members of art clubs at high schools in the city and the Yamagata Art Support Center La La La
Date : October 19 (Sat.) to November 10 (Sun.)
Venue : Participating stores in the city center

● Exhibition of paintings, photographs, crafts, etc. by volunteer members of arts and culture organizations
Date : October 21 (Mon.) to 25 (Fri.)
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📷 Local Museum Night Museum
[Free of charge, no application required]
Date : November 1 (Fri.)
Hours : 16:30~19:30
Venue : Kyodokan, Yamagata City

🎬MOVIES🎬
🎥 Theater Community Center
Local community centers become movie theaters!
[Free of charge]
・In the “Living a Lively Lifestyle Course”
Date : October 10 (Thu.)
Venue : Kanai Community Center
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・At the 63rd Murakizawa District Cultural Festival
Date : Held in October
Venue : Murakizawa Community Center
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・Permanent screening at the Takiyama Festival special booth
Date : October 20 (Sun.)
Venue : Takiyama Community Center
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🎥 Yamagata Citizens’ Film School x Outdoor Screening
[Free of charge, application required]
Date : September (Sat.)
Doors open : 17:30
Screening : 18:30
Venue : On the grounds of the Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum
<Films to be screened>
“Perlimpus and the Secret Forest”
Application period : August 1 (Thu.) to Thursday, September 5 (Thu.)
Capacity : 80 people (first come, first served)
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🎥 Panel exhibition for the film “I Love You, But I Hate You”
[Free of charge, no application required]
Date : October 1 (Tue.) to October 31 (Thu.)
Hours : 10:00~17:30
Venue : Yamagata Creative City Center Q1
(B1 Project Space)
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Inquiry
Yamagata Autumn/Winter Arts Festival Committee
☎ 023-641-1212 (ext. 639/769/627)