A library experience where you can read and dance: “Dancing
Literature”! The world’s quietest festival at Japan’s most popular library.
Ozone LLC Press release: September 4, 2025 A library experience where you can read and dance, “Danceable Literature,” is coming! The world’s quietest festival at Japan’s most popular library. The silent DJ event “Silent Fest” will be held for the first time at Yamato City Library! A new type of reading entertainment where you can dance while you read! There is also a literary contest with the theme of “Danceable Literature.” Silent It (operated by Ozone LLC) has announced a new project called “Danceable Literature,” which combines music and reading. The project will be held at Yamato City Library, which was chosen as the “most popular library in Japan” in a survey conducted by Seikatsu Guide.com in 2020, and will feature “Silent Fest(R),” the “world’s quietest DJ event” using dedicated wireless headphones.
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/20755/57/20755-57-eea7d3e9f1b196e847eca09eee152448-1920×1080.png Research has shown that reading while moving improves concentration and memory. Reading for dancing At this event, participants will be given special headphones and will be able to enjoy music and reading at the same time, with a book of their choice from the library. This is a new entertainment experience: reading to dance.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/20755/57/20755-57-1d33720f802f002bd7637a3d78ebf5f8-960×507.jpg The “Health Terrace” on the 4th floor will be used as a dance floor. Select exciting literature from our vast collection of approximately 500,000 volumes Participants can browse books in the library while listening to music played by a DJ. From the unexplored perspective of books for dancing, this will create an opportunity to discover new books.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/20755/57/20755-57-8758067063fb536fbdcde4f88d9f4175-1024×1024.png New entertainment in literature and music On the day, we will be showcasing space, dance, video, and other performances based on the unexplored genre of “danceable literature.” We are also holding a literary contest, open to the public, inviting submissions of novels and tanka poems on the theme of “danceable literature.” This will open a new gateway to literature. Event summary Date and Time: Saturday, October 25, 2025, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Venue: Yamato City Library 4th floor (inside Yamato City Cultural Creation Center Sirius) Address: 1-8-1 Yamatominami, Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture Access: 3-minute walk from Yamato Station on the Odakyu Enoshima Line or Sotetsu Main Line Participation Fee: Free How to Reservation: Reservations required in advance via the following page: https://silentfes95.peatix.com/ *Registration will close once capacity is reached. *Reservations are on a first-come, first-served basis, so please make your reservation early. Operational Structure: Organizer/Planning and Production: Silent it Cooperation: Yamato City Library Production/Creative Direction: Yu Amemiya (experience writer)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/20755/57/20755-57-815e1abc06f07f4f7a1b6e53f593cdbb-1344×896.png With these dedicated high-quality headphones, you can instantly transform a quiet library into a dance floor. Literary contest/open DJ contest also being held 《About the Literary Contest》 We are accepting literary works of up to 3,000 words on the theme of “danceable literature” until October 5th. We are accepting submissions of all genres, including novels, poetry, essays, plays, and critiques. The winning work will be bound and distributed to all participants at the event. 《About DJ Contest》 We are accepting DJ applications for the “Danceable Literature” performance slot until September 12th. Each participant will have one hour of playtime. There are no restrictions on BPM or genre, but participants will be asked to interpret the theme of “Danceable Literature” and create a performance that matches it. Click here for details Planning background In recent years, library usage has been declining nationwide, and a survey by the Agency for Cultural Affairs found that over 60% of adults responded that they “don’t read even one book a month.” The number of bookstores has also decreased by approximately 30% over the past decade, leading to a loss of opportunities to discover new books, especially among younger generations. Video has become the mainstream media, and information is becoming increasingly fast-paced.
Furthermore, since the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more people are finding it difficult to read long texts. On the other hand, precisely because we live in an age where AI delivers information optimized for individual preferences, a place with books, where we can encounter knowledge outside our filter bubbles, can be seen as a ray of hope that keeps us from closing off to the world. People can become aggressive in a small world, but kind in a large one. Encounters with the unknown are important for a peaceful world. As someone who writes novels and continues to create “experiential novels” that open up otherworldly worlds to festival-centered experiences, expanding the scope of reading experiences has been a major theme for me. This project was born out of my search for new avenues for my writing style in this increasingly divided era. –“Is music the only thing I can dance to? No, literature too.” The rhythm of your gaze following the words, the sense of words tickling away, the plot development that makes you want to applaud, the fill-in of your fingers gripping the pages. Reading is, in fact, a silent dance. “Danceable Literature” is an experiment in an alternative reading experience that unleashes the groove hidden in reading through music. By opening up new connections with libraries and books and creating a space where silence and enthusiasm coexist, we aim to provide an opportunity for everyone, regardless of generation or background, to discover new books. href=”https://www.yuu-amemiya.com/”
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/20755/57/20755-57-4780c4b21823af82187b5653f123defa-2000×1125.png Official website https://silent-it.com/ Silent it is Japan’s largest silent event brand, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. It uses dedicated wireless headphones to solve all noise problems. We have solved various issues using our own specialized equipment at over 300 locations across the country, including the silent DJ event “Silent Disco,” the anywhere-based movie screening “Silent Cinema,” and “Silent Talk,” which delivers clear sound to booth visitors.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/20755/57/20755-57-d1970cf21c2ef124e5f959565ba89e66-1616×1080.jpg Dancing bathhouse design Maximizing the potential of venues and music In response to the decline in Tokyo’s public baths, even more so than bookstores, we proposed “Dance Bathhouse,” a “public bath festival that heats up the baths and the floors,” in 2017, which became a hot topic and sparked a trend of cultural events at public baths. About Amemiya Yu
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/20755/57/20755-57-aa4c0b3ae14623cab9ebea7cf59fc47f-2994×1688.png Official website https://www.yuu-amemiya.com/ A writer of experience who writes literature that lives, not just reads. A novel about a future that may soon come. Open up the virtual worlds written as novels as real-life experiences. These experiences come in a variety of forms, including festivals, immersive theater, exhibitions, and films. Participants see the situation and behave as if they were in the world of the story. This gathering temporarily creates a virtual world in that location. Living literature, which allows readers to experience virtual worlds with all five senses, has produced numerous works under the name “experience novels.” For example “KaMiNG SINGULARITY,” an experiential novel about a world where AI becomes a god. “RingNe” is an experiential novel about a world where people are reincarnated as plants. The novel is about living in a virtual world for three years, alongside the world of the story. In the short story “Mud Land” “Mud Land Fest” “Dance Bathhouse”: A public bath where you can dance and heat up both the bath and the floor. There are also one-day experiences available. Known as the pioneer of silent disco in Japan, Japan’s largest silent event brand, “Silent it,” and He is the CEO of Ozone, a creative company that “maximizes imagination opportunities.” He has worked on over 100 projects across the country, and has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Nippon Television’s “The World’s Most Wanted Lesson” and TBS’s “Sunday First Time Hearing.” His unique worldview has garnered widespread attention. The “Kamakura Shikyo Festival,” inspired by festivals from the Kamakura period, was nominated for the JACE Event Awards alongside the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The “Super-Intelligent Future Society Scenario Contest,” which describes a scenario 50 years into the future, won an honorable mention. As a creative director, I work with companies and government agencies across the country. While developing works and projects that cross the boundaries of art and business, I also work with businesses and local governments. He devotes himself to farming, DJing, writing novels, making films, holding funerals, and creating relational art. As for venues, In 2020, he opened “Escape Bar White Out” in Yokohama. In 2025, he plans to open “Ozone-so” in the Odawara area. He is reversing the world of his past creations from “hare” to “ke.” He has made creating escape routes and assisting escapees his life’s work, and has held his own funeral four times. He lives his life running, creating, and flowing between worlds.
