This is the press release for the first Tolerance Poster Show in Japan.
The show will be a part of this year's Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo's most important two-day art festival on May 27/28 (Sat/Sun). While the event recorded over 800,000 visitors in the past, this year's attendance is expected to exceed 1,000,000. The Tolerance Poster Show will be displayed on art boards along Roppongi street prior to other programs beginning May 23 (Tue).
This show was made posible by director Aya Komboo, professor Matthew
Waldman, and SAMCARA Design Lab of Keio University's Graduate School of Media Design, and with much help from Yuko Shimizu.
We are pleased to let you know that in parallel with hosting the Tolerance Poster Shows, ” Politécnico da Guarda “ (IPG), " UNITA - Universitas Monitum " and " Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior " (The Directorate General for Higher Education), an organization part of the "Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation" are organizing series of lectures on "Citizenship and Tolerance". The lectures will be held in the different IPG schools. The first lecture is about the legacy of the Portuguese consul Aristides Sousa Pereira . During the Second World War, he helped Jews in Germany to obtain Portuguese passports, and later he did the same with Jews in France. Despite the huge problems caused to him by the Portuguese fascist regime, Aristides Sousa Pereira managed to save 30,000 refugees, of which 10,000 were Jews. The speaker will be Aristides' grandson, and he is going to talk about his grandfather and his legacy. The second lecture will be f...
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