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NEWS ARCHIVE

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2025

Crescendo: How Art Makes Movements (1981-1999) – exhibition at the Asian Arts Initiative curated by Joyce Chung (March 1 -  June 28, 2025)

• Midwest Buddhist Temple Bulletin – Happenings, January 2025 (Vol. 30, No.1)

2024

• Review: Genres and Cultures Meld as Taiko, Jazz, and Shubukai Dance Fusion Perform on MCA Stage​ 
 Third Coast Review (December 17, 2024)

• Tatsu Aoki / AIRMW feature in the Wednesday Journal (December 10, 2024) 

• Chicago Tribune's "Things to Do This Weekend" (December 13, 2024)

• Around Town with Ana Belaval stops by AIRMW to learn taiko and dance. (December 3, 2024)
Stooping to Talk to a Cat on a Doorstep (Asian Improv Records) reviewed in The New York City Jazz Record, Nov 2024

AIRMW is a recipient of a 2024 CityArts Program grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events     (September 23, 2024) 

"Carrying on Tradition Through Music: Tatsu Aoki and the Toyoakimoto legacy of innovation and tradition in the Japanese cultural arts of Chicago," Pacific Citizen Vol.179, No.6 (September 20, 2024)

 The MIYUMI Project mentioned the Hyde Park Jazz Festival preview on Chicago Reader (September 18, 2024)

• â€‹Tatsu Aoki selected for 2024 Avant-Garde Masters Grants, awarded by The Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation Foundation (September 10, 2024)

Stooping to Talk to a Cat on a Doorstep (from AIRecords) reviewed in Dusted Magazine (June 2024)
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Toyoaki feature on Chicago Shimpo, English version, Japanese version  (June 2024)
​Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project mentioned as a Quick Pick feature in 10 must-see shows happening during EXPO Chicago for EXPO ART WEEK (April 2024)
Asian Improv Records' newest releases Sunlight Filtering Through Leaves by Chicago-based musician Mai Sugimoto     is on recommended new release list of The New York City Jazz Record's annual “Women in Jazz Issue"(March         2024)

 View the archived recording of Haruhi Kobayashi's interview of Tatsu Aoki on Fred Anderson's legacy. Event co-presented by AIRMW & Experimental Sound Studio (February 2024)

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2023

 Tatsu Aoki interview for Jazz Tokyo: https://jazztokyo.org/interviews/post-89664/   (July 1, 2023)

AIRMW awarded a Chicago Arts Recovery Program grant from the Chicago Mayor’s Office & the Chicago Department     of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (May 9, 2023)

• Tsukasa Taiko on WGN's Daytime Chicago segment (May 8, 2023)​

BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC ON BANDCAMP: APRIL 2023 featuring Tatsu Aoki's new album "Actual Music Now" (May 3, 2023) 

​CHICAGO SHIMPO “Grand Opening of New Dojo, AIRMW Cultural Hub”  (March 30, 2023)

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*news prior to 2021 not listed*

Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW) is supported in part by The Illinois Arts Council Agency, the National Endowment of the Arts, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, ​the JCCC Foundation, the Alphawood Foundation, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), The Field Foundation, The Joyce Foundation. 

Asian Improv aRts Midwest is a registered 501(c)3 organization.
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