Exhibition

The Future via Anime

an Exhibition of Stills from Famous Japanese Anime

The future via Anime is an exhibition of stills from famous Japanese animations from TOEI, such as Cyborg 009, Galaxy Express 999, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, but also more recent work like Digimon. Guided by these stills, the exhibit focuses on TOEI’s contribution to Science Fiction, and in particular the way in which the company, its artists, writers and directors, have shaped the future of space travel. The exhibition will last until August 31st 2010. We like to thank TOEI for making the stills available to us.

The former libraries of the Institute for Sinology and the Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies together make the new East Asian Library. By offering these collections in one library instead of on more locations, we can provide you with a better service. You could already use the East Asian Library which we marked earlier with a small opening event. Now that the renovation of the silent area is finished, we would like to bring the start of the East Asian Library to your attention with this festive gathering.

Date: November 30th, 2009 - August 31st, 2010
Venue:   Room 130 (Silent Area of the East Asian Library), Arsenaal Building

Our thanks go to Asiascape.net, Toei Animation and Leiden University Library for making this exhibition possible.

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