From Cara Kallen, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California We have several events coming up and I want to be sure you are all aware of them. We’ve had three successful workshops leading up to Matsuri on June1st and there are three more to go – four if you count the workshop with Riley Lee...
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A Japanese American women group will honor veteran Japanese classical dance master Hanayagi Rokumine of Los Angeles. A program “An Afternoon with Hanayagi Rokumine” presented by the Nikkei Women Legacy Association will be held on Sunday, June 9, in the new Senator Daniel K. Inouye Center for Democracy, Tateuchi Forum Theater in Little Tokyo...
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Crowd-pleasing taiko songs and Arabic-Japanese musical fusion will be featured in TAIKOPROJECT’s all-new Rhythmic Relations 2013, to be held Saturday, June 29, at 8 pm at the famed Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood. Joining in the first half of the concert are drumming groups Bombu Taiko, Kitsune Taiko, Loma Pacific Taiko, and Tanuki Taiko, in an...
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UCLA’s Nikkei Student Union presents 2nd Spring Recital 2013 “Asahi no Matsu” on Saturday, May 11 at 1 – 3 pm in Schoenberg Hall, UCLA. Tickets are free for the general public, and available to students at UCLA’s Central Ticket Office starting May 6. 2 free with Bruin Card. People may also...
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The Okinawa Association of America will be presenting its 18th biennial Utayabira Wuduyabira concert at the James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA 90503 on Sunday, May 5 at 2 pm. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by contacting the Okinawa Association at mensore@earthlink.net or (310) 532-1929. Translated as...
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The Yoko Awaya Koto Music Conservatory will present a charity mini-concert on May 4 from 2 pm at the Church of Perfect Liberty, 1130 West 223rd Street, Torrance, CA 90502. Special guest, Dr. Takashi Mimaki, on the Ocarina, will join koto players. Dr. Mimaki is a pediatrician and professor emeritus from Gifu...
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A new production of Hikobae, a play about the medical staff who risked their lives following the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 will premiere in Los Angeles on March 30 and 31 and New York on April & 6. Hikobae honors the first responders and those...
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Japanese artist Mme. Kimisen Katada of Ventura will start Japanese classical dance and music lessons under the name of “Fuji Japanese Music” in March at Oxnard Buddhist Temple. In March 2013, the classes will be held on March 2, 9, and 16. The April schedule will be announced later. Lesson Schedule on every...
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The San Francisco-based Theatre of Yugen lectures and performs excerpts from “Cordelia,” a unique Japanese Noh interpretation of Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” beginning at 7:30 pm on March 5 in Garrison Theater of the Scripps College Performing Arts Center, 231 East 10th Street in Claremont. This event is free and open to the public. Theatre...
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Okinawa Convention and Visitors Bureau hosts its own booth at the 15th annual Los Angeles Times Travel Show on Saturday, Feb. 23 and Sunday, Feb. 24 at Los Angeles Convention Center. Travel Show opens from 10:00 am – 5 pm. Regular admission is $10. Los Angeles Convention Center is located at 1201 South Figueroa...
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Mme. Wakana Hanayagi, Master Artist and Founder of the Wakana Hanayagi U.S. Conservatory of Japanese Classical Dance and the “Wakana Juku,” will commemorate her 80th birthday in an afternoon dance program on Sunday, February 10 from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm at the James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA 90503. Providing...
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Ship of the Ryukyu will present “The Legend of Hagoromo: Ryukyu ‘Opera’ & Okinawan Dance Performance” on Saturday, February 9, 3:00 pm at James Armstrong Theater, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA 90503. General admissions are $20. For tickets, call the Okinawa Association of America at (310) 532-1929. “The Legend of Hagoromo” show consist...
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