About

Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT) ’s Future Ideations Camp is a series of intensive workshops bringing different kinds of people together to work collaboratively and creatively with art and digital technologies. Around twenty selected participants take part in several days of lectures to acquire new ways of thinking, workshops for building skill sets, and collaborative group activities. During the camps, the general public are also able to attend talks and presentations of the results.

Exploring the theme of theater and technology, the ninth Future Ideations Camp follows last year’s seventh edition in partnering with the Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo held annually in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The playwright and Autumn Meteorite Tokyo artistic director Okada Toshiki serves as the camp director, joined by a wide-ranging team of instructors and facilitators including practitioners from the technology sector, all working closely with the participants.
The camp treats theater as a simulation device that conjures up an alternative reality (fiction) through the audience’s imagination, enabling us temporarily to share and test situations and relationships that do not yet exist.
Once we regard digital technology and other modern technologies as tools for expanding the human imagination, what are the implications for our understanding of the nature of theater and society? And what new possibilities can we then conceive? The camp and its participants explore practice-based approaches to this inquiry. 

Concept

Theater is a very old medium, practiced for thousands of years. However, new technologies that did not exist millennia ago can naturally become the elements, perhaps even essential elements, that constitute theater.

How can we incorporate modern technology (digital technology, for instance) into theater to bring about its essential innovation? How can theater utilize technology in new, previously not possible ways without compromising, and rather even enhancing, its essential qualities?

This camp focuses on theater as a medium that excels at producing fiction through the heavy involvement of the audience’s imagination.
Can the theatrical imagination enhanced by current technology have greater potential to perceive, creatively critique, and transform contemporary society? Sure it can!

Simply utilizing new technology does not make a new form of theater. To reveal, through new technologies, the potential of theater that people thousands of years ago could never have imagined, yet doubtlessly sensed vaguely. Therein lies the ambition of this camp.
The theatrical imagination is intertwined with society. This is something powerfully realized through new technology. As such, it is indeed a new form of theater: with the dream of witnessing that nascent moment of theater, this camp is once again held as a collaboration between CCBT and Autumn Meteorite Tokyo.

Okada Toshiki

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Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite 2026 Tokyo

Autumn Meteorite is a performing arts festival centered around the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Ikebukuro, Toshima-city. The festival’s Artistic Director is playwright and novelist Toshiki Okada, who has also taken up the position of Artistic Director, Performing Arts of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre this fiscal year 2026.
The festival’s core missions are:

• To foster the creation of new artistic work
• To promote international exchange
• To develop the next generation of performing arts professionals

The festival aims to create opportunities for audiences to experience the “here and now” of the Japanese and global performing arts scenes through a diverse range of programs—making them more accessible, encouraging direct, personal connection and resonance, inviting discoveries of various realities, and opening new perspectives from which to reconsider the world we inhabit. For the 2026 Edition, Autumn Meteorite Tokyo once again returns with three main categories: the “Performance Program,” comprising 13 diverse works of performing art from Japan and abroad; the “Non-Performance Program,” consisting of lectures, workshops, and other events; and the “Hello and Welcome (Attendee Support)” program, which provides support throughout the festival.
https://autumnmeteorite.jp/en

Organized by Tokyo Festival Executive Committee [Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Co-organized by Toshima City
Supported by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan｜Japan Arts Council
Gold Sponsor: Asahi Group Japan, Ltd.