First-ever regional event! Hosted by CANVAS and Kaho Musen Co., Ltd., “The World’s Largest Children’s Creative Event”—Workshop Collection in Fukuoka—is set to take place on Saturday, August 20, and Sunday, August 21! Call for exhibitors will begin soon! Additionally, this year we plan to hold the Workshop Collection in Tokyo next March!

http://wsc.or.jp/workshop/about

The Kids Creative Institute Summer Camp, which receives numerous applications every year! Due to its popularity, we’ve added more venues and a wider variety of courses!

http://www.canvas.ws/kenkyujo/

“CANVAS LIBRARY,” which introduces [books], [videos], and [toys] that stimulate children’s intellectual curiosity and nurture their creativity through play and learning, has been launched! Experts (selectors) at the forefront of their respective fields introduce high-quality books, videos, and toys that capture the imagination.

http://canvas-library.net/

CANVAS is serving as the general producer for the annual exhibition series at the Shibuya Ward Children’s Science Center HachiLab, designed to foster children’s scientific thinking and enthusiasm for making things. For the first installment, we welcome CANVAS Fellow Naoyuki Ito as a guest to explore the wonders of art and science!

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10168

CANVAS Magazine’s new series, “The Present and Future of Digital Ehon,” is now live! Through interviews and reports featuring Digital Ehon creators and other adults involved in the field, we’ll explore the present and future of Digital Ehon and its impact on children.In #01, we bring you a report from our visit to the headquarters of Toca Boca, the developer of the world’s most popular digital picture books, which has reached 100 million downloads.

http://canvas.ws/magazine

The Korean-language edition of “Turning On Children’s Creativity! CANVAS: The Secret Base for Play and Learning” (by Nanako Ishido) has been released by the South Korean publisher CHUNGARAM MEDIA.

http://canvas.ws/news/10499

01.　Top Picks and Featured News! 02.　CANVAS Blog Updates! 03.　List of Media Coverage 04.　Latest Event Information!

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A learning community for adults that comprehensively explores the relationship between children and media to create new value. The theme for the 12th session is “Children and Design.” Our guest speaker is Hisae Igarashi of Igarashi Design Studio, who is active in a wide range of fields, including commercial space design, installations, furniture, product design, and playground equipment design.

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10158

Control the Sphero ball robot with ease using Java programming! Let’s make Sphero perform all kinds of movements. At the end, we’ll hold a group-versus-group robot tag tournament!

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10469

A programming workshop using “enchant MOON,” a digital notebook for handwritten notes. Try your hand at simple game programming using block-based coding and creating a variety of content!

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10465

Combine “Redstone”—an item used to create mechanisms that make things move—with switches and sensors that react to light to take on slightly mysterious missions in the world of Minecraft.

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10468

Try creating your very own app using this innovative app that lets you bring your imagined movements and worlds to life. Turn your drawings—which come to life as if they’ve been breathed into—into creations like picture books and games.

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10464

Experience programming that brings movement to all sorts of things—both on-screen and in the real world—using Scratch, Raspberry Pi, and electronics! We’re looking forward to welcoming anyone interested in programming or who loves making things through electronics!

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10466

Held at Aoyama Book Center, we’ll be hosting a workshop using “Digital Ehon”—a new form of picture book that moves when touched, plays sounds, allows you to create your own animations, is fun to read, and lets you express yourself just like with drawing paper or clay!

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10473

Participants will create their own works while experiencing the full process of clay animation production, including sculpting, stop-motion filming, scriptwriting, voice recording, and editing. They’ll explore the mechanics of animation and ask “why?” questions for themselves, then collaborate in groups to create original clay animations.

Summer Camp 2016: Clay Animation Starter Course

(1st–3rd Grade) http://canvas.ws/workshop/9681

Summer Camp 2016 Clay Animation Master Course

(4th–6th Grade) http://canvas.ws/workshop/9682

Our Kids Creative Lab 3-Month Series has been a huge hit! This time, participants will discover their own unique colors and create new creatures using motors that make them shake and vibrate. We can’t wait to see how everyone’s discoveries and flashes of inspiration will spread throughout the lab!

Kids Creative Lab at DigiHaru (July–September)

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10490

Kids Creative Lab at Daikanyama (July–September)

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10081

Kids Creative Lab at the University of Tokyo Hongo (July–September)

(4th–6th graders) http://canvas.ws/workshop/10077

Children are artists. At the “Museum Just for Kids,” they freely create using the various materials and tools on display.Artworks, objects before they become artworks, the passage of time, and the movements they inspire—these are the essence of this museum. What will you discover today? What will you be able to do…? No matter how many times you visit, this is a space for play and learning that always sparks that sense of excitement.

http://canvas.ws/workshop/855

Set in “ARK Garden”—a symbol of ARK HILLS’ lush greenery—this year-long program creates a space for children to interact with nature, allowing them to engage their five senses, physicality, and free imagination.

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10123

This is a monthly workshop series held at COSUGI COBO, a community workshop in Musashi-Kosugi. We offer programs that nurture imagination and creativity through a variety of hands-on experiences!

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10366

In the “Future Realization IT Classroom,” a collaborative initiative between ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Co., Ltd. and CANVAS, participants use iPads to program their own original “playable” stories—one story per person. Through this creative process, participants learn to identify and solve problems, understand the mechanics of creating things, and discover new perspectives they haven’t considered before.

Take on the Challenge with a Tablet! Programming Workshop @ Sendai International Center

http://canvas.ws/project/mirai_ctc

Summer Vacation Special Workshop in Suidobashi: “Tablet Programming 2016 Summer”

http://canvas.ws/project/mirai_ctc

Interview foreigners visiting Sumida Ward in English! Let’s create a video to help them with the strange things they’ve noticed or the problems they’ve encountered since coming to Japan! Through interacting with foreigners, let’s experience the cultural differences between Japan and other countries!

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10163

Use everyday items to try your hand at video production, electronics projects, and science experiments! Get hands-on with various tools and materials—experience, feel, and think to your heart’s content. This is a hands-on workshop designed to nurture creativity. We hope you’ll join us!

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10412

Organized by Tsuda College and CANVAS, this event will be held again this summer. We’ll conduct a programming workshop combining the Scratch programming language with the Kinect motion sensor. No prior programming experience is necessary! We hope you’ll join us!

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10407

An interim report from the “Study Group on the Role of ‘Digital Textbooks’” is scheduled for June, and discussions toward their actual implementation are finally gaining momentum. In light of this report, we will host a symposium. We plan to deepen the discussion by inviting Chair Hotta of the study group, as well as representatives from relevant government ministries and agencies.

http://canvas.ws/workshop/10363

Effective 6:00 PM on Friday, March 31, 2017, we will be discontinuing the “OTOKOTO” service and closing the website. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to our current users. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude for your long-standing support.

http://canvas.ws/news/10414

Nanakko Ishido, Chairperson of CANVAS, will speak at the “IT Management Practice Forum” hosted by Pastel IT Shimbun.

http://canvas.ws/news/10217

Nanakko Ishido, Chairperson of CANVAS, will serve as a judge in the Creative Division of “THINKERS FES 2016,” a presentation contest for teenagers.

http://canvas.ws/news/10498

Books, Cities, and Children: Workshop Series (Oct. 2015–)

http://canvas.ws/project/hon_machi_kodomo

Scratch Day 2016 in Tokyo (May 21)

http://day.scratch-ja.org/

We’ve posted photos and artwork from May’s “Kids Creative Lab” sessions (held at Digital Hollywood, the University of Tokyo Hongo Campus, the Daikanyama Children’s Museum, and Daikanyama).

http://www.canvas.ws/kenkyujo/

★ Nanako Ishido’s blog has been updated!

https://creativekids.jp/nanako/

・“Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Vol. 99, No. 4” — Nanako Ishido, Chairperson of CANVAS

・“ICT Education News” Digital Ehon “A Trip to the Market”

・MOKU, May 2016 Issue: Nanako Ishido, Chairperson of CANVAS

・Journal of the Information Processing Society of Japan, “Information Processing,” June 2016 Issue, Vol. 57—Nanako
Ishido, President of CANVAS

・“Weekly Toyo Keizai” — Nanako Ishido, Chairperson of CANVAS

・Asahi Shimbun: PEG Programming Education Gathering

・NHK “International News 2016”—Nanakko Ishido, Chairperson of CANVAS

・Asahi Shimbun: Scratch Day 2016 in Tokyo

・Sankei Shimbun: Nanako Ishido, President of CANVAS

・Asahi Shimbun: Nanako Ishido, Chairperson of CANVAS

・“Communication Culture” June Issue: Opening Remarks by CANVAS Chairwoman Nanako Ishido

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Below is information on events for June. The CANVAS website is also packed with
other event information! Be sure to check it out!

http://www.canvas.ws

*Please contact the organizers of each event directly for details.

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CANVAS is always accepting event information from organizers and related parties, with a focus on children’s creativity and self-expression.
Submit your event here
:
>>http://canvas.ws/workshop

☆CANVAS is always looking for individuals and organizations to become supporting members.
Supporting members are individuals or organizations who endorse the objectives of the NPO CANVAS and pay the required membership dues.

How to Apply: Please contact the CANVAS Secretariat first.

http://canvas.ws/player

CANVAS MAIL MAGAZINE Issue 177 / Distribution Date: June 10
, 2016
Publisher: CANVAS
, Specified Nonprofit Corporation
Publisher: Nanako Ishido / Editors: Rie Furuhata, Ayumi Mochizuki

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