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 Admission $30 VIP Tickets with bento dinner $15 General public $10 UCLA faculty and...
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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 engage in Q&A about others. This exciting event is presented by the Yanai Initiative...
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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 will be held at Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo on May 6 at 5...
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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, UCLA Free and open to the public Parking in Lot 2, $12 (Hilgard &...
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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 and speaking skills. The classes offer a fun and challenging opportunity to study the...
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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 footage, this 2014 documentary offers extraordinary insight into the persistence of traditional Japanese cultural...
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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 a ‘Tōhoku Studies’ and increased scholarly attention to the region since the 2011 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear...
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The Japan Foundation presents the world premiere of the exhibition Japanese Design Today 100 at UCLA’s Perloff Hall of Architecture Department from June 27 – July 19. Since 2004, the previous version of this exhibition has been traveling around the world fascinating countless viewers in many countries including Egypt, India, and Russia. After a...
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From UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies New Visions of Japanese Cinema Series presents a free screening of Issei: The First Generation on Thursday, May 8, from 4 -6 pm at Broad Art Center in UCLA campus. Issei is a documentary film about the Japanese who, at the turn of the century, immigrated to the West Coast of...
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