The inaugural edition of performing arts festival Autumn Meteorite takes the image of a meteorite to signify a cosmic pollinator and a catalytic collision of ideas where artists and cultures converge. “The image of a meteorite evokes something foreign, unfamiliar — a presence infused with a rare power to set things in motion,” says the festival’s artistic director Toshiki Okada, active internationally as a playwright and leader of the theater company Chelfitsch . The first iteration of the