Tokyo Insiders Social Club 芸術を通じて国際交流

Thank you for joining TISC.

Before many events to come, let’s get to know each other — not just names and jobs, but the real self.

For example: what you love about Japan, what you love about Japanese people, a piece of art or a moment that genuinely moved you, things you want to experience here, and something from your own country you wish more people in Japan knew about.

Nothing formal — just a face-to-face and a casual chat.

Looking forward to it!

TISCへのご参加、ありがとうございます。

これから始まる様々なイベントの前に、お互いのことを知り合いましょう——名前や仕事だけでなく、本当の自分自身について。

例えば、日本のどんなところが好きか、日本人のどんなところが好きか、心から感動した芸術作品や瞬間、日本で体験してみたいこと、そして自分の国について日本の人にもっと知ってほしいこと、など。

堅苦しいものではなく、気軽に顔を合わせておしゃべりする場です。

お会いできるのを楽しみにしています！

“Elävä” means “living” or “alive” in Finnish — and that’s exactly the spirit behind this space. minä perhonen’s elävä Ⅰ in Higashi-Kanda is a shop-and-gallery built around the idea of living thoughtfully, with care and love poured into every object — from organic food to ceramics and everyday tools made by hand.

We’ll take our time walking through together, noticing the details, and simply feeling what’s there. Afterward, we’ll grab coffee nearby and talk about what stood out to us.

Meeting point: In front of Higashi-Kanda Station

Fee: ¥1,000 — coffee/drinks at the café are each person’s own expense.

Japan’s best graphic design of the year — 2,000+ submissions, narrowed down to the top 300. Packaging, posters, branding that’ll spark something in you.

We’ll wander through together, soak it all in, then grab coffee to keep the good energy going.

Come excited, leave feeling full — eyes and heart both.

Fee: ¥1,000 — coffee/drinks at the café are each person’s own expense.

40 years, 500+ books, and one designer redefining what a “book” even is.

Irma Boom is the graphic designer museums fight over — MoMA, Centre Pompidou, you name it.

This exhibition at MUJI Ginza brings her wildly different creations to Asia for the first time: books small enough to fit in your palm, one as thick as a dictionary, and a custom-developed paper you’ve never seen before.

We’ll wander through together, then grab coffee to talk about what a “book” could actually be.

Come for the books, stay for the conversation.

Fee: ¥1,000 — coffee/drinks at the café are each person’s own expense