culture360 Media Partnership | Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting 2025
culture360.ASEF.org is delighted to be the media partner of YPAM (Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting) taking place in Yokohama, Japan from 28 November – 14 December 2025.
Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting (YPAM) is Japan’s longest-running platform where professionals engaged in contemporary performing arts from around the world gather to exchange ideas, gain inspiration, share knowledge, and build networks. Since its inception in 1995 in Tokyo as the Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM) and following its shift towards an Asia focus in 2015, YPAM has contributed to numerous international co-productions across Asia, earning recognition as one of the region’s most influential performing arts platforms. Now marking its 30th edition, YPAM continues to welcome both industry professionals and general audiences to its wide-ranging meeting and performance programs.
As part of its vibrant and holistic programme, YPAM will unfold in four main activities. The YPAM Direction series, running since 2011, debuts a new forum format, combining informal presentations of experimental projects with professional discussions. For this first edition, YPAM brings together three colleagues who developed innovative artist lab programs in Taipei, Singapore, and Bangkok during the 2010s and 2020s, pairing them with artists whose projects stimulate professional discourse on the creation, methodologies, and evolving notion of “work” in Asia today.
A new addition this year, the YPAM Showcase, in collaboration with arts and cultural organizations from Japan and abroad, offers a meeting point for audiences and professionals to experience seven outstanding works that illuminate the vibrancy and contemporaneity of performing arts from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, and Italy.
Alongside these, YPAM Exchange, the professional networking program, kicks off with a reception at the newly opened Art Center NEW. At its core, the Meeting Point, featuring symposia with guest speakers and open call meetings hosted by participants, will take place again at the Gender Equality Center Yokohama South (Forum Minamiota) from December 9 to 11.
Returning with a record 53 programs, including 13 from overseas, the open call performing arts festival YPAM Fringe offers a lineup of innovative works that defy expectations and provide audiences with new perspectives.
Join the 30th edition of YPAM in its various programmes through the links below:
- Professional Registration for YPAM Direction and YPAM Exchange (Open until December 14 2025)
- Buy your tickets for YPAM Showcase and YPAM Fringe
YPAM (Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting) details
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