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PROJECTS

Click on the projects below to learn more!

THEATRICAL + EXPERIENTIAL Productions

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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

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MOMOTARO
An Interactive Folktale at
Koelbel Library


CENTENNIAL, CO

SANKEI 

  • NI DO TO: An XR Pilgimage - Ferst Center for the Arts @ Georgia Tech

  • Out of the Dust - Short Film 

  • IKKAI Means Once with KAMBARA+
    Premiered in San Jose February 2023

PROGRAMS + EVENTS

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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

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DENVER + TAKAYAMA ARTIST EXCHANGE
Takuma Fujiwara +
Casey Kawaguchi 

Collaboration with RiNo Arts District
RiNo Art Park

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CATALYSTS:
Joyce Yuriko Cole
Ongoing - Denver Theater District
Installed 2025

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CASEY KAWAGUCHI +
SAKURA SQUARE

The Seeds We Sow +
Rooted in Tradition 2025

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DENVER IS MY HOME
Denver’s Historic Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon

January - May 2025

ARTCADE.HEIC

ARTCADE
Gashapon Art Machines
Denver Theater District
2025 + 2023

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KINTSUGI: THE ART OF HEALING Finding Beauty in Repair 
Summer - Fall 2020


In partnership with the McNichols Civic Center Building
and Denver Arts & Venues

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PORTRAITS OF COURAGE
Stories of Valor


History Colorado
February 2020

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RICE & RESILIENCE:

Colorado's API Food Culture
History Colorado Center 
April 2022 - 2023 

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ASIANS IN FOCUS

A PhotoVoice Project

 

In partnership with NAAPIMHA

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)

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NIKKEI BLOCK PARTY

YouTube LIVE - Summer 2020

STORIES OF COURAGE

History Colorado
February 2020

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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

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YOKOSO!
Sharing Japanese culture through a multi-disciplinary live arts mix-tape.

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CARNEGIE HALL MUSICAL EXPLORERS

Newman Center for the Performing Arts

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UNTOLD STORIES OF THE WEST

Cultural Mixtape + Colorado Symphony Orchestra

#IAMNOTBROKEN
AMPLIFYING Asian Mental Health
Resources

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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

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ADDITIONAL PREVIOUS TEACHING & WORKSHOPS

  • Denver Foundation
    Folk Dance and Daruma Making
     

  • Mochi Magic + Kaori Becker 
    with Japan America Society of CO

  • Central City Opera

    • Madame Butterfly

    • Music! Words! Opera! Workshop
       

  • Eien Hunter-Ishikawa Natto and Knife Sharpening Workshops

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NEXT GEN JA 

A monthly intergenerational gathering embracing 
community connections to
Japanese culture

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