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Current
PROJECTS
Click on the projects below to learn more!
THEATRICAL + EXPERIENTIAL Productions
ZOTTO [ぞっと]
A Supernatural Folktale
TOURING 2026
DENVER, CO
November-December 2022
March, July, 2023
STORIES OF SOLIDARITY
DENVER, CO
Ongoing via Pocketsights
Exhibit 2024
INHERITANCE KITCHEN
DENVER, CO
April - May 2025
TAMIKO + THE MAGIC VIOLIN
PARKER + BOULDER
April 2023 & March 2024
MOMOTARO
An Interactive Folktale at
Koelbel Library
CENTENNIAL, CO
SANKEI
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NI DO TO: An XR Pilgimage - Ferst Center for the Arts @ Georgia Tech
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Out of the Dust - Short Film
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IKKAI Means Once with KAMBARA+
Premiered in San Jose February 2023
PROGRAMS + EVENTS
JAPAN FEST
In Partnership with Levitt Pavillion
Takenobu + Cultural Mixtape 2025
Ryuichi Sakamoto Tribute w/ Michael Sakamoto and Paul D. Miller 2024
Lyrics Born + Cultural Mixtape 2023
MAYOR'S AANHPI HERITAGE MONTH
Denver Performing Arts Complex
May 2025
CULTURAL ROOTS
NIGHT MARKET
A Celebration of API Heritage Through Food
History Colorado Center
April 16th, 2022
MOTTAINAI
Cultural Runways Fashion Show
McNichols Civic Center +
Arts & Venues Denver
March 12, 2022
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FIRST VOICE
STORY CIRCLE
OF THE JAPANESE DIASPORA
May 28th & 29th, 2021
(VIRTUAL)
THE BENTO SESSIONS
ZEMBU + Morning Bear
Summer 2020
(VIRTUAL)
Ai [Love] Virtual Concert
August 2020
(VIRTUAL + ORIGINAL FILMS)
WAY OF THE WARRIOR
Samurai's Table
October 2019
WAY OF THE WARRIOR
Sakura Square - October 2019
PORTRAITS OF COURAGE
History Colorado - February 2020
ARTIST INITIATIVES + EXHIBITS
DENVER + TAKAYAMA ARTIST EXCHANGE
Takuma Fujiwara +
Casey Kawaguchi
Collaboration with RiNo Arts District
RiNo Art Park
CATALYSTS:
Joyce Yuriko Cole
Ongoing - Denver Theater District
Installed 2025
CASEY KAWAGUCHI +
SAKURA SQUARE
The Seeds We Sow +
Rooted in Tradition 2025
DENVER IS MY HOME
Denver’s Historic Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon
January - May 2025
ARTCADE
Gashapon Art Machines
Denver Theater District
2025 + 2023
KINTSUGI: THE ART OF HEALING Finding Beauty in Repair
Summer - Fall 2020
In partnership with the McNichols Civic Center Building
and Denver Arts & Venues
PORTRAITS OF COURAGE
Stories of Valor
History Colorado
February 2020
RICE & RESILIENCE:
Colorado's API Food Culture
History Colorado Center
April 2022 - 2023
ISHIN DENSHIN
Transmissions from the Heart
May 31st - August 1st, 2022
The Collective - Lafayette, CO
TAKUMI
THE ARTS & CRAFTS OF HIDA, TAKAYAMA
SUMMER 2021
(VIRTUAL)
STORIES OF COURAGE
History Colorado
February 2020
LAUREN IIDA'S
FIVE POINTS MERCHANTS
(SPIRE Building - Denver, CO)
ASSASSIN WITH SON
A Stop-Motion Samurai Film
about Fatherhood
(On Hold)
Amplify
An artist-centered initiative of the
Japanese Arts Network
Past
COMMUNITY + EDUCATIONAL
YOKOSO!
Sharing Japanese culture through a multi-disciplinary live arts mix-tape.
CARNEGIE HALL MUSICAL EXPLORERS
Newman Center for the Performing Arts
UNTOLD STORIES OF THE WEST
Cultural Mixtape + Colorado Symphony Orchestra
#IAMNOTBROKEN
AMPLIFYING Asian Mental Health
Resources
LUNCHBOX MOMENTS
with Colorado Asian Cultural Education Network
ANYTHINK LIBRARIES
Daruma Making Workshop
Tanabata Festival
Japanese Folk Music
Nostalgia Foods
CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE
International Summer Dance Institute (2019, 2020, 2021)
Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum (2019, 2024)
TSURU FOR SOLIDARITY
Denver Buddhist Temple
March 2020
ADDITIONAL PREVIOUS TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
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Denver Foundation
Folk Dance and Daruma Making
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Mochi Magic + Kaori Becker
with Japan America Society of CO
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Central City Opera
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Madame Butterfly
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Music! Words! Opera! Workshop
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Eien Hunter-Ishikawa Natto and Knife Sharpening Workshops
NEXT GEN JA
A monthly intergenerational gathering embracing
community connections to
Japanese culture
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