UCLA Nikkei Student Union’s 34th Annual Cultural Night will be held on February 22, 2020 at Royce Hall from 7:00-9:30 PM. The production will feature performances by this year’s drama cast, along with NSU’s premiere performance groups: Kyodo Taiko, NSU…
University of California Los Angeles Shinto and Gagaku Lecture and Music Performance November 18, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Royce 314 UCLA Department of Asian Language & Cultures invites the public to an introduction to Shinto and a performance of…
Forwarded for UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Community Event Announcement 2 Days of Noh: Blue Moon Over Memphis Presented by Theatre Nohgaku and the Yanai Initiative Monday, October 15, 2018 7:00 PM Glorya Kaufman Dance Theatre Kaufman Hall, UCLA…
Internationally acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda will be in Los Angeles to participate in an exciting retrospective of his films at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater and a other venues across town. The director will introduce some films and…
The Yanai Initiative Japanese Performing Art Program at UCLA, Waseda University in Tokyo present 5 days of Kyogen programs with living national treasure Mansaku Nomura and his Mansaku-no-Kai from May 5-9. An Evening of Kyogen with Mansaku Nomura & Mansaku-no-kai…
Forwarded for UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Blowing Meditation and the Sounds of Fall with acclaimed shakuhachi masters: Matama Kazushi, Furuya Teruo, Kakizakai Kaoru Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:30 – 9:30 PM Jan Popper Theater, 1200 Schoenberg Music Building,…
Forwarded for UCLA In summer 2016, UCLA will offer special language classes for high school students who speak, understand and/or hear Armenian, Japanese, Korean, Persian or Russian at home and want to learn to read, write and expand their listening…
January 22, 2016 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM Film Screening: Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in the WWII Internment Camps Jan Popper Theater, UCLA With its rich mix of compelling interviews, historical photographs, musical performances, and rare archival film…
Critical Tōhoku Studies Workshop Haines Hall Room 352 January 23, 2015, 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. The region of Tōhoku has been economically, culturally, and politically marginalized within Japan for centuries. In view of Akasaka Norio’s recent call for…