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After a successful small exhibition at Liever Hier earlier this year, Japan in gouache and watercolour, artist and Japanologist Philo Ouweleen will present a new solo exhibition from Tuesday 9th...

HYPER JAPAN will be soon starting with its one-month long event HYPER JAPAN ONLINE, on Friday 9th of July. As the name says, it will take place online and many...

A lot has already been done to celebrate AVO Magazine's 18th birthday and rightly so, 18 years is no mean feat! From the production of a podcast episode to the...

After cancelling the 2021 edition of CinemAsia Film Festival due to COVID-19 and losing a 4-year structural subsidy, a major funding, the organisation had to sound the alarm bell. A...

After the 2020 edition of MondoCon was cancelled and the convention went online for activities, this summer it will be different. The Hungarian convention has received a go-ahead from the...

The organisation behind the Belgian convention Atsusacon, Ganbaro VZW, has announced that there will be no 2021 edition of Atsusacon this summer. This means that there will be no Atsusacon...

For the annual summer exhibition at IBASHO, the Antwerp-based gallery has chosen for the theme Mizu, which translates from Japanese to English to water. As an island nation, Japan has...

The newest exhibition that can be visited at Amsterdam-based Nihon no hanga will show the series Japanese vocations of the Shōwa era in pictures by Wada Sanzo (1883-1967) and illustrates all...

The latest exhibition in Japan Museum SieboldHuis in Leiden comprises the work of Ogata Gekko. An exclusive presentation of his work, because it is the first time that a large...

Temperatures are rising, people are carefully venturing out of their homes in some parts of the world and having socially distanced gatherings outside again. Summer is here and, as always,...

Slowly but surely it seems that is it possible to plan tours for musicians and for Kikagaku Moyo (幾何学模様) that was enough reason to do this as well. The psychedelic...

In February, it became known that the 15th-anniversary edition of Hellfest would be postponed once again. Dates were set for 17, 18 and 19th of June 2022. Today, the organisation...

We will have to wait a little longer for the second edition of Italian idol festival Monster of Dolls. The organisation has been busy with the arrangement of a new...

Recently confirmed to take place in 2022, the music festival Primavera Sound in Barcelona has also shared the lineup for the two weekends in June 2022, 2-4 and 9-11). Many...

Making plans in 2021 is of course a bit of a gamble, but it looks like festival Le Guess Who? is positive given the organisation is busy setting up the...

AVO Magazine started in 2003 as a forum and over the years transformed into an online magazine with a variety of articles. While I have started this project myself and...

After being confirmed for the 2020 and 2021 edition of the alternative music festival Jera On Air, it seems that we have to wait a bit longer before Crossfaith will...

The rockers of LUNA SEA will be streaming their 30th-anniversary concert from Tokyo Garden Theater. Following the concert at Saitama Super Arena in March earlier this year, Zaiko will be...

Visual Kei band el:cid will release their first full-length album, titled In the Shade on the 18th of August. The legendary band formed in Kyoto in the early nineties and...

In the middle of cancellations and postponements, there is also some good news of tour announcements. There are not many, since the current ongoing situation of the pandemic is still...

The European fans of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. do have to wait a bit longer before the 'soul collective' will return to Europe for a tour....

AVO Magazine started in 2003 as a forum and over the years transformed into an online magazine with a variety of articles. While I have started this project myself and...

The rockers of GLAY have embarked on a continuously live concert programme, titled THE ENTERTAINMENT STRIKES BACK, through streaming them in four months. They started in March and it will...