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Japanese cultural events in New York area. (April - June 2005)

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Lectures/Workshops/Classes:

Hanagasa Odori Workshop

Every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month.
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Hanagasa dance workshop by New York Hanagasa Kai. Hanagasa Odori (Hanagasa means Flower Hat and Odori means Dance in Japanese) is the traditional Japanese festival dance practiced in Yamagata Prefecture in northern Japan.

New York Hanagasa Kai (Kai means Group in Japanese) is a mixed group of all ages and nationalities, that gets together to parade at festivals and other events. Anyone can join the group and It is an opportunity for Japanese and Americans to mutually enjoy the Flower Hat Dance

Their most popular event is the flower hat dance parade which is performed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s “SAKURA MATSURI”.

CAST IRON GALLERY
159 Mercer St. 4th Floor
Fees: $7 per class

R.S.V.P.: Momo Suzuki at Tel (212) 982-6952 or MomoSuzuki@nyc.rr.com

For more info:
New York Hanagasa kai
http://www.japanesefolkdance.org

April 8
(Fri)
6:30 pm

Lecture:
INSIDE THE STUDIO Takashi Murakami

Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami has made a name for himself by transforming pop culture into high art with a bold and often deliberately commercial aesthetic sensibility. His use of pop culture symbols and his creation of the Kaikai Kiki Factory, a collective space for young artists, have earned Murakami countless comparisons to Andy Warhol, yet Murakami's work distinguishes itself by also speaking to a deeper sense of postwar national identity. As the final installment of the Superflat trilogy, Little Boy--which refers to the codename used for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and which personifies the culture of "cute" that dominates popular forms in Japan--goes beyond a surface rendering of Japan's popular cultures to identify a darker graphic subculture, to express Murakami's vision of contemporary Japan. Public art installations by Kaikai Kiki artists will also be in display at several local venues. This program features a conversation between Takashi Murakami, curator of the exhibition Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture and collaborators.

Tickets: $20; Japan Society members & seniors $15; students $12.

Japan Society
333 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017
(Bet 1st & 2nd Ave)
Phone: 212.832.1155
Box Office: 212.752.3015
http://www.japansociety.org/

April 17

Shakuhachi: (Japanese bamboo flute)
Annual Spring NYC Beginners Honkyoku Intensive

This intensive is for beginners (no experience necessary), and will consist of learning an entire Zen piece (HONKYOKU).

Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin will teach them at the Ki Sui An Shakuhachi Dojo.

For reservations and/or for more info:
call: 212-929-1037
email: nyogetsu@nyogetsu.com
web: http://www.nyogetsu.com/index.html

April 4 -
May 21

Japanese Language Classes
Spring Session: April 4 ~ May 21

Tenri Cultural Institute's Spring session offers Japanese language classes from bigging levels to advanced levels.

For reservations and for more info:
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, New York, New York 10011
(Bet. 5th & 6th Avenues)
(212) 645-2800
http://www.tenri.org/
http://www.tenri.org/schedule.html

April 18 -
June 27

Mataro Ningyo (Doll Making / Hina &Warrior Doll)
Spring Course: April 18 ~ June 27
Makifuji Narada

(Mondays) 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27

(10 lessons) $250