{"id":19123,"date":"2016-07-27T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=19123"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:58:16","slug":"tokyo-art-scene-collaborates-for-sdgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/07\/tokyo-art-scene-collaborates-for-sdgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo art scene collaborates for SDGs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love 1980’s pop music and the Sustainable Development Goals? Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Information Centre in Tokyo (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC Tokyo<\/a>) is raising awareness of the SDGs with a new music video featuring more than\u00a0100 Japanese celebrities dancing along to 80’s idol Yu Hayami\u2019s\u00a0“Boogie Oogie Love Train” while holding the 17 colourful SDG icons.<\/p>\n

The music video<\/a> premiered on 15 July at the opening of Rainbow Reel, an annual LGBT film festival in Tokyo, and\u00a0marks a collaboration with renowned photographer and film director Leslie Kee. \u00a0Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto pulled the 100+ costumes from his special ten-year archive collection.<\/p>\n

Also that night, Mr. Kee launched\u00a0his\u00a0photo exhibition “Out In Japan,” a display of some 1,000\u00a0portraits of people identifying as LGBT throughout Japan. Mr. Kee has the ambition to take a total of 10,000 LGBT portraits by 2020. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC Tokyo Director Kaoru Nemoto took to the stage with Mr. Kee to discuss LGBT rights in Japan, focusing on Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities, and introduced a video from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Free and Equal Initiative.<\/p>\n

By\u00a0mobilising celebrities in the art world, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC Tokyo has ensured that the SDGs reach a wide, youth-oriented audience through social media. This discussion will continue next month during Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵIC Tokyo\u2019s SDG-themed student photo contest.<\/p>\n

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Photo\u00a0\u00a9LESLIE KEE<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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