The number of side programmes gathering around an event is often the clearest sign it has arrived on the international calendar, and by that measure Art Week Tokyo is having a watershed year. A cluster of partners is amplifying the city's November buzz with projects that blur the lines between exhibition, social space and marketplace.

Leading the way is a new venture from the founders of Basel Social Club, the alternative fair. Tokyo Jazz Club runs from 1 to 8 November inside a former capsule hotel in the Jimbocho neighbourhood, combining contemporary art, performance, music and food. Co-founders Robbie Fitzpatrick and Yael Salomonowitz say the project draws on the history of jazz culture in Japan, describing jazz as a mode of thinking built on improvisation, listening and collective presence.

Elsewhere, Gabriel Orozco is working with designer Shinichiro Ogata to turn a restaurant, Higashi-Yama Tokyo, into an extension of his home. Project O+O: Gabriel Orozco runs from 6 to 29 November and is billed as a living exhibition where artworks, specially designed objects and culinary experiences converge. It is co-presented by Mexico City gallery Kurimanzutto and Tokyo-based producer Jam Acuzar.

The programme also reaches beyond the fair's own venues. Serakai Studio, the backer of the new Hong Kong cultural space Gold, is hosting a durational performance and installation by Taiwanese artist Liang-Jung Chen on 4 and 5 November as part of Certainly Tokyo, its pop-up exhibition at Path Omotesando. And homegrown media art and VJ duo MES is curating a line-up of DJs and performers for AWT x Shibuya Parco Art Night on 4 November. Together, the projects underline how far the week's centre of gravity has shifted from gallery booths alone toward the city's wider creative life.