Website/Social

www.usjapanctn.net

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Organization

If this is a collective, what is the name?

U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network, Inc.

About: Please tell us about your self. Some of our programs have benefits for art workers - please tell us if you are an artist and mention the most recent work/venue/space/residency where you have worked/developed your practice.

Kyoko Yoshida is the founder and director of the U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network (CTN), which was started as an international project of Arts Midwest in 2001. The organization provides leadership, vision, information and technical support to enhance cultural trade between the two countries. After its successful and productive operation of five years in Midwest, CTN relocated to San Francisco in 2006 to become an independent nonprofit organization.

Prior to CTN, Yoshida was program manager at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Los Angeles, where she worked for five years presenting Japanese performing artists at the Center’s 880-seat theater. Yoshida holds an MFA in performing arts management from Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Prior to her arrival to the United States, Yoshida had extensive experience in presenting international artists at Spiral in Tokyo where she worked for 6 years. She has served the field as a presenter, producer, and consultant for 25 years. Yoshida also translates theatrical scripts between Japanese and English.

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producer, curator