Past events

Shugo Noguchi, a leading researcher on reading accessibility at Aoyama Gakuin University (Library and Information Science), and Koji Fujisaka, a former library director turned bookseller who helped realize libraries that are more than just places to borrow books together with citizens and librarians, will have an in-depth conversation about the possibilities of libraries that can only be understood through practice and the potential reading accessibility brings to books.

This is a tanka gathering for those who want to start writing tanka or have just begun. Why not try composing tanka together? Please feel free to join us. The organizer is tanka poet Miyako Asai, who received the Mahiruno Prize. If you wish to participate, please compose one tanka and email it to [email protected] by July 1. Don't forget to include your name. Beginners are welcome to try composing in the 5-7-5-7-7 rhythm.

A flea-market–style book event held at Nishiyama Shopping Street where bookstores, zine creators, and general participants set up stalls. Booths are limited to approximately 25 groups on a first-come, first-served basis. There are two types of booth spaces, and items sold are primarily books (other goods are allowed if roughly half of a stall's offerings are books). The event will go ahead in light rain; it will be canceled in severe weather.

Zindies, the online service that connects zines, creators, shops, and readers, is rapidly evolving! This time, four members of the Zindies project will gather in Nagoya to show everyone how to use it! We welcome creators, shops, and readers to join us!

Seven groups will be exhibiting in the gallery on the 2nd floor of Nagoya BOOK CENTER!

A service to visualize ZINEs being created across Japan, along with their creators and the shops or events that distribute them, aiming to create new encounters between you and ZINEs. ZINDIES is starting! The planners and developers will talk about the goals of this new service.