Examples of speaking engagements

May 2019

Japan Crafts Association Symposium
"Crafts as Prayer" (Fukushima)

December 2019

Tsuda University Lecture
"Colorful Worldview: Shimura Fukumi's Colors and Words" (Tokyo)

December 2020

Tsuda University Lecture
"The World of Shimura Fukumi" (Tokyo)

October 2021

Lecture at the East Asian Art and Document Institute, University of Tokyo
"The 27th Ishimure Michiko Reading Group" (Tokyo)

December 2021

Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus Symposium
"Ishimure Michiko and Noh: The World of the New Noh Play 'Okimiya'" (Osaka)

March 2022

Panasonic "Life and Space Research Group" Training Session
"Japanese Color Sense" (Kyoto)

June 2023

Lecture at Kyoto University of Arts
"Kyoto Studies: Japanese Traditions and Culture Nurtured in Kyoto" (Kyoto)

November 2023

Lecture by the Japan Private School Education Research Institute
"The artistic spirit of dyeing and weaving artist Fukumi Shimura and its inheritance" (Nara)

December 2023

Lecture at Kumamoto City Higashino Junior High School
"About the color of plant life" (Kyoto)

February 2023

Lecture at Kunimoto Girls' High School
"How to live your life from now on - learning from dyeing and weaving artist Fukumi Shimura" (Tokyo)

January 2024

Lecture at Kunimoto Girls' High School
"Celebrating Coming of Age Day - Metamorphosis of Life" (Tokyo)

January 2025

Lecture at Kunimoto Girls' High School
"Celebrating Coming of Age Day - Self-Expression" (Tokyo)

February 2025

Lecture by Kyoto Confectionery Cooperative Association
"The meaning of handicrafts in modern times" (Kyoto)

March 2025

Seminar on Japanese Culture in Daily Life
"The charm of plant dyeing and its culture" (Kyoto)

April 2025

Women's Choir Wakana Symposium
"Accepting color, sound and life - exploring interactive creation with nature" (Tokyo)