Planetary YUI.
Arts for Living Together

OKINOWAR WEEK  07.–08.08.2026
WITH  Riko Sugama, Thaís Omine, Victor Kinjo, Nanyō Unten, Hiroya Maeda, Aki Maeda, Toyomitsu Higa, Akihito Yagi, Takumi Hosokawa, Ayaka Nakazato, Rita Sugama, Olga Futemma, André Okuma, Igor Shin, Marcia Vaitsman, Makoto Inoue, Riko Berlin Sanshin Schule

ACCESS  SAVVY is accessible by wheelchair

FRIDAY  07.08.2026

  

all day 

Exhibition
With works by Nanyō Unten, Hiroya Maeda, Aki Maeda, Toyomitsu Higa, Thaís Omine, Olga Futemma, André Okuma, Igor Shin, Marcia Vaitsman

  

10:00

CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP
With Nanyō Unten
Participants will create their own work on shikishi paperboard, which they can take home
→ Please book your spot via Eventbrite

  

14:00

RYŪKYŪAN COSTUME & DANCE WORKSHOP
With Ayaka Nakazato, Rita, Riko, Takumi Hosokawa, and sanshin students
Participants will have the opportunity to wear traditional Ryūkyūan costume and experience Ryūkyūan dance accompanied by live sanshin music and singing.
→ Please book your spot via Eventbrite

  

16:00

LACQUER & RADEN WORKSHOP
With Hiroya Maeda & Aki Maeda
Participants will create their own lacquer and raden artwork using a B5-sized panel. Finished works can be taken home.
→ Please book your spot via Eventbrite

  

18:00

ARTIST TALK
WIth Hiroya Maeda & Victor Kinjo
A conversation around the practice of Hiroya Maeda

  

20:00

Ryūkyūan PERFORMING ARTS
A special performance featuring Ryūkyūan dance, traditional singing and sanshin, Okinawan karate 
→ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite
[Workshop participants receive free entry upon presentation of their workshop ticket]

  

21:30 

OPENING PARTY
DJ set featuring Ryūkyūan / Okinawan music × Techno
→ Free entry and open to all

  

17:00–23:00

Food will be served on a donation base 

  

SATURDAY  08.08.2026

  

all day

Exhibition
With works by Nanyō Unten, Hiroya Maeda, Aki Maeda, Toyomitsu Higa, Thaís Omine, Olga Futemma, André Okuma, Igor Shin, Marcia Vaitsman

  

10:00

RYŪKYŪAN COSTUME & DANCE WORKSHOP
With Ayaka Nakazato, Rita, Riko, Takumi Hosokawa, and sanshin students
Participants will have the opportunity to wear traditional Ryūkyūan costume and experience Ryūkyūan dance accompanied by live sanshin music and singing.
→ Please book your spot via Eventbrite

  

14:00

LACQUER & RADEN WORKSHOP
With Hiroya Maeda & Aki Maeda
Participants will create their own lacquer and raden artwork using a B5-sized panel. Finished works can be taken home.
→ Please book your spot via Eventbrite

  

16:00

CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP
With Nanyō Unten
Participants will create their own work on shikishi paperboard, which they can take home
→ Please book your spot via Eventbrite

  

18:00

FILMMAKERS' TALK
With Thaís Omine, André Okuma, Victor Kinjo, and Marcia Vaitsman
A talk centred around the film programme curated by Thaís Omined
→ Free entry and open to all

  

20:00

Ryūkyūan PERFORMING ARTS
A special performance featuring Ryūkyūan dance, traditional singing and sanshin, Okinawan karate 
→ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite
[Workshop participants receive free entry upon presentation of their workshop ticket]

  

20:30

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE 
With Victor Kinjo & Takumi Hosokawa
A live musical encounter connecting Okinawa and Brazil through the memory of Okinawan migration and diaspora
→ Free entry and open to all

  

21:00

CLOSING PARTY
With Makoto Inoue
DJ set featuring Ryūkyūan / Okinawan music × Techno
→ Free entry and open to all

  

17:00–23:00

Food will be served on a donation base 

  

Planetary YUI – Arts for Living Together is a multidisciplinary cultural programme presented at SAVVY Contemporary as part of OkiNoWar WEEK, connecting Okinawa, São Paulo, and Berlin.

“YUI” (結) is a concept rooted in Okinawa, referring to human connection, mutual support, communal care, and living together through interdependence. This programme expands the philosophy of YUI onto a broader, planetary scale, moving across histories of colonialism, war, migration, diaspora, memory, resistance, non-violence, and healing. The connection with São Paulo is especially important, as Brazil has a large Okinawan diaspora community, and through Victor Kinjo, Okinawan memory has continued to be inherited outside the Japanese archipelago in its own distinct way.

Planetary YUI understands Okinawa not as a single island or region, but as a network spreading across the world through migration, memory, body, and art. It doesn't seek to present Okinawa solely through histories of war and victimhood. By connecting past and present, we rather aim to create a space in which we can collectively ask: How can we live together? 

The program at SAVVY Contemporary presents Toyomitsu Higa’s photography, Nanyō Unten’s calligraphy, Hiroya Maeda’s works, and workshops in Ryukyuan dance, uta-sanshin, calligraphy, and karate, re-presenting art as a technique for living together. 

     

OKINOWAR WEEK TEAM 
Artistic Direction  Riko Sugama
Performance Direction Makoto Inoue 
Cultural Mediation  Victor Kinjo, Thaís Omine 
Project Producer  Micaela Trigo

SAVVY TEAM 
COORDINATION  Anna Fasolato
GENERAL MANAGEMENT  Lema Sikod 
COMMUNICATIONS Anna Jäger 

The event takes place in conversation with NUCHI-GAFŪ du SHIDI-GAFŪ: The Wisdom of Okinawa and The Art of Non-Violence at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and "don't kill US twice: an active form of memorialization" at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA as part of OkiNoWar week.

VISUAL  Haruokinawa