“Tokyo International Arts Festival” (TIF) held around February to March every year, consists of the following programs.
> International company productions and co-produce series
>“Regional theater series”
>“Show case division”
>“Communication program ”
>”International visitors program”

Showcase division Through the international level perspective
Starting from 2003, for the upcoming 3 years, ANJ organizes the programs concerning the works of the Middle Eastern (Arabic) community and the Eastern European community. The focus will be on works that can retain severe tensity with daily, everyday life. Also, not just inviting international companies for co-producing performances, we will encourage the co-creating of the works. (The programs involving the Middle Eastern productions are partnership programs with the Japan Foundation.)

Regional theater series From local communities to Tokyo
This series offer both the emerging and established companies based in regional areas of Japan, the chance and space to hold performances in Tokyo. This leads to create a new pipeline and flow from local areas, to theater communities in Tokyo. Also, from 2004, we started a program with the Japan Foundation for Regional art-activities, connecting theater/performance spaces with creators to collaborate, taking one step farther than just hosting or moving ready-made performances.

Communication Program a better understanding & a little more fun
ANJ offers chances where the audiences and the artists “meet” directly and broaden relationships. Gathering young adults and students as internship/volunteer groups, (the youth arts management projects) to experience the scene of 'creation in progress'. We will also open up an “arts café” where festival participant artists can have talks with their audience face to face. From 2003, we started a program for junior/senior high school students, to nourish and raise future global consciousness.

International visitors program a worldwide network of people
We invite theater and art festival directors, producers from abroad during our TIF, to introduce Japanese performing arts scene and its community. We will hold meetings for possible future international co-production projects, as well as symposiums to present other nations' situations concerning the arts community, for the development of the international network of people and artist.

The insufficiency of rehearsal and working spaces
The theater community in Japan is desperate for places for rehearsing and creating work. As one solution, we have started the “Old school project”.
The severe shortage of these spaces will not lead the creations of productions to higher qualities. From the necessities to create the space itself, and the idea of using classrooms of the school buildings no longer in use, drew us to this project in 2001. From April 2002, we have experimentally operated rehearsing and working spaces, held workshops and events for the local community and children, at the Old Toshima ward Senkawa elementary school. As the framing of this project soon became more clearer, we moved it's base to the Old Toshima ward Asahi Junior-high school building in 2004 August, and reopened it as the “Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory”.
Cooperating with other art support groups and NPOs, the local community, and the local government, we hope this place evolves into theater/dance rehearsing and working places, performance spaces, workshop studios, and a free, opened place where many people can get together, exchange ideas; a place with many functions to connect people.

These lectures will be on the latest movements concerning the arts including the movements surrounding the new connection of the arts and the society etc. we also hope this will be chances for the participants and members to make new networks and pipelines. Our first lecture was on the 24th, 25th of September 2004, talking about the “Designated management system”. The second lecture will be in March 2005, with the title “the issue over Dramaturug”

The participants and youth members will be expected to:
Experience and understand the process and scene of the “art creation in progress”;
Perceive the difficulties and problems with new and flexible sensibilities of the new generation;
Find and take action of the solutions.
For this we will have steady and careful support while respecting the participants' autonomy.