 | | A once-a-year festival where you can feel multicultural and multinational, like a microcosm of the world, on a campus on a mountain with a panoramic view of Beppu City |
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| Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Beppu City, Oita Prefecture, President: Yutaka Yoneyama, APU) will hold the 22nd Tenku Festival. |
| APU's university festival “Tenku Festival'' is an event that anyone from children to adults can participate in, allowing the local community to experience the multicultural and multinational environment of the campus, where students from approximately 100 countries and regions gather. In addition to aiming for cross-cultural understanding and regional development, the event is held as a place for students to present their daily extracurricular activities. |
| The theme of this year's Tenku Festival is “YOU”. |
| It embodies our desire to celebrate our unique selves among diverse people, co-create with those around us, create “YOU”, and spread our wings into the world together. |
| On a campus that is like a microcosm of the world woven by APU students, we will hold many events where you can experience the world. |
| [Schedule] |
| Date and time: October 26, 2024 (Sat) 11:00-19:00 October 27, 2024 (Sun) 11:00-16:00 |
| Location: APU Campus (1-1 Jumonjihara, Beppu City, Oita Prefecture) |
| Target audience: Anyone can attend. |
| Parking: Available (limited number) |
| [List of Tenku Festival events] (partial excerpt) |
| Special project stage |
| ◆TENSONG’s triumphant return live “We are back in APU ~TENSONG Festival 2024~” |
| *10/27 (Sunday) 13:00 Admission fee: General 2500 yen Tickets available at e |
Sales start from 18:00 on 9/25 (Wednesday) Exclusive URL https://eplus.jp/tensong_apu/
Details below “Special Project Stage” See |
| ◆Beppu city singer Michiru Yuasa live October 26th (Sat) 17:40~ Free admission |
| ◆Multicultural Week Parade: A large-scale parade that brings together multinational groups and fuses multiple cultures. |
| ◆Stage Performances: In addition to performances that can only be seen at APU, such as Eisa, Japanese drums, Arama, Yosakoi, K-POP dance, and performances of traditional instruments, you can also see dance performances by local children. |
| ◆Exhibition planning: Digital art, Thai culture exhibition, self-understanding workshop, Philippine culture exhibition |
| ◆Food stand: A total of 28 shops will be open, including Habitat Curry, which won APU's C-1 Grand Prix, Taiwanese-style shaved ice, borscht, Myanmar-style shiratama dumplings, khao soi, traffic light soda, churros, and grilled ramen. |
| ◆Flea market: There will be many other unique stores selling Indonesian goods, Thai goods, Indian goods, self-produced magazines, and more. |
| ◆Treasure hunt: Stamp rally to solve puzzles around campus. You can try this challenge with your child. |
| ◆Language Festival – Words of the Body, Body of Music: A corner where you can come into contact with minority languages and their cultures, and have fun using music, words, and the body. Recommended for families with children. (Held from 11:00 on the 26th only) |
| ◆Night Festival (Yasai): You can watch various performances on stage only after sunset. We will also hold a lantern festival where lanterns are flown into the sky to create a fantastic campus. |
| [Special project stage] | | We are back in APU～TENSONG Festival 2024～ |
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| Sunday, October 27, 2024 Doors open 12:00 Performance starts 13:00 |
| Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Millennium Hall (1-1 Jumonjihara, Beppu City, Oita Prefecture) |
| TENSONG was formed by three current APU students and started their activities during the coronavirus pandemic, and they performed for the first time at this Tenku Festival. They have gained a total of 1.2 million SNS followers in the one and a half years since they started their activities, and returned to APU for the first time in two years after graduation for their first performance titled “We are back in APU ~ TENSONG LIVE @ Tenkusai 2024 ~”. We will have a triumphant return live. Tickets will go on sale at e from 18:00 on Wednesday, September 25th. |
| [Admission fee (all seats reserved/tax included)] |
| ・General 2500 yen |
| ・APU students only 1000 yen Note: Ticket and student ID are required for admission. |
| First-come-first-served sales will start from 18:00 on Wednesday, September 25th at e https://eplus.jp/tensong_apu/ |
| [Sponsor] Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU)/Tenku Festival Executive Committee |
| [Planning and production] WEST FOREST / tep Co., Ltd. |
| [Inquiries regarding tickets] Kyodo West Japan 0570-09-2424 (Weekdays and Saturdays 11:00-15:00) |
| [Inquiries regarding performances] Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University https://www.apu.ac.jp/forms/home/contact/ |
 | | “TENSONG” returns to campus for the first time in two years after graduation and performs |
| | [TENSONG Profile] | | Connected by the common desire to “deliver songs that are close to each person,” Vo. Takabo (from Fukuoka), DJ. Alfie (from Oita), and Gt. were formed in April 2020 by university classmates. A music unit consisting of three members: Takuman (born in Kyoto). (Graduated from APU in March 2022) |
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| Original songs created by the unique lineup and cover songs that make use of Takabo's high-tone voice have become a hot topic on SNS, and within a year and a half since their formation, they have reached a total of 1.2 million SNS followers and 100 million total YouTube views. Breakthrough. The original songs based on the members' actual experiences have become a hot topic, attracting attention from a wide range of age groups, especially middle and high school students. The group's name conveys the meaning of “we want to deliver “10 people and 10 colors'' of music that can relate to each person who listens to it.'' |
