Ⓒ Picture Book Town Plaza (Itabashi First Junior High School, gymnasium/first floor of the school building)Ⓒ Picture Book Town Plaza (Itabashi First Junior High School, gymnasium/first floor of the school building)
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- Picture books can be enjoyed by everyone from babies to adults and enrich creativity. Itabashi Ward is taking advantage of its exchange with Bologna, Italy, and its thriving local printing and bookbinding industry to promote picture book culture in cooperation with creators, businesses, universities, and other organizations.
Gymnasium Area
1) Drawing Paradise
The pictures you draw start to move on the screen. This is a new drawing experience that will enthrall children and adults alike!
2) Picture Book Experience Corner
A space where parents and children can relax and enjoy picture books together. You can encounter a variety of picture books, from familiar ones to new ones that you have never read before.
(3) Picture book goods for sale / Picture Book Navi Co.
Goods related to picture books will be on sale. By purchasing goods related to your favorite picture books and characters and incorporating them into your daily life, you will feel even closer to picture books.
4) Voting for entries to the Picture Book Awards 2024 made in Itabashi
Itabashi Ward is home to one of the largest concentrations of printing and bookbinding industries in Japan. We look forward to your reading and voting for your favorite picture book made in Itabashi Ward!
(5) Tokyo Kasei University, Area of Creation and Play
The "Area of Creation and Play," which has been a great success every year, will be held again this year with the cooperation of Tokyo Kasei University in the ward! Parents and children will surely be able to enjoy themselves while nurturing their rich imagination through play!
(6) Publishers' Booths
Several publishers will gather to sell picture books and picture book goods. A wide variety of picture books will be available for purchase, from bestsellers that everyone knows to picture books that are new to you.
7) Itabashi Creators' Market
This is a creators' market featuring picture book authors associated with Itabashi Ward, including those who have been selected for the Bologna International Picture Book Original Drawing Exhibition in Italy. Not only picture books, but also fashionable sundries and cute goods are available for purchase.
⑧International Exchange Booth
In addition to exhibits introducing embassies and other foreign embassies in Tokyo, picture books from around the world will be on sale. This is a chance to get picture books from all over the world that are not available in Japan!
⑨Stage Program
Visitors can enjoy greeting with popular characters and a variety of picture book reading performances.
School Building Area
⑩Workshop Corner for encountering the new world of picture books / Technical Room 1
Bookstore "Bunko" will offer workshops on how to choose a picture book and how to experience the world of picture books, as well as workshops on making handmade musical instruments (for a fee).
(11) Corner for nurturing a rich mind through "making" and "experiencing" / Multipurpose Room, Clothing Room
In addition to the regularly scheduled "Badge Making Workshop" and "Eco-Bukuro Making Workshop with Picture Book Covers," there will be many other hands-on workshops, such as time-shift workshops.
Saturday, 19th: 1st 11:30-12:30, 2nd 13:00-14:00, 3rd 14:30-15:30, 4th 16:00-17:00
Sun. 20th 1st 10:00-11:00, 2nd 11:30-12:30, 3rd 13:00-14:00, 4th None
⑫Tekkutekku Cardboard Maze/Lunch Room
Digital stamp rally in a cardboard maze! With your Mushi-Glasses, find the checkpoints hidden in the cardboard maze and aim for the goal!
Gymnasium Area & School Building Area
Finding the ⑬ object game
Find the letters hidden in the gymnasium and school buildings! If you find all of them, you will receive a prize!
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