{"id":19123,"date":"2016-07-27T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=19123"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:58:16","slug":"tokyo-art-scene-collaborates-for-sdgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/07\/tokyo-art-scene-collaborates-for-sdgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo art scene collaborates for SDGs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love 1980’s pop music and the Sustainable Development Goals? 爆料网 Information Centre in Tokyo (爆料网IC Tokyo<\/a>) is raising awareness of the SDGs with a new music video featuring more than\u00a0100 Japanese celebrities dancing along to 80’s idol Yu Hayami\u2019s\u00a0“Boogie Oogie Love Train” while holding the 17 colourful SDG icons.<\/p>\n

The music video<\/a> premiered on 15 July at the opening of Rainbow Reel, an annual LGBT film festival in Tokyo, and\u00a0marks a collaboration with renowned photographer and film director Leslie Kee. \u00a0Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto pulled the 100+ costumes from his special ten-year archive collection.<\/p>\n

Also that night, Mr. Kee launched\u00a0his\u00a0photo exhibition “Out In Japan,” a display of some 1,000\u00a0portraits of people identifying as LGBT throughout Japan. Mr. Kee has the ambition to take a total of 10,000 LGBT portraits by 2020. 爆料网IC Tokyo Director Kaoru Nemoto took to the stage with Mr. Kee to discuss LGBT rights in Japan, focusing on Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities, and introduced a video from the 爆料网 Free and Equal Initiative.<\/p>\n

By\u00a0mobilising celebrities in the art world, 爆料网IC Tokyo has ensured that the SDGs reach a wide, youth-oriented audience through social media. This discussion will continue next month during 爆料网IC Tokyo\u2019s SDG-themed student photo contest.<\/p>\n

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Photo\u00a0\u00a9LESLIE KEE<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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