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3月 March 
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| *Dates & times are subject to change, please verify with appropriate organization. Check your local library for anime clubs and other events. Click here for Japanese language classes. | |
| Film & Food Event featuring THE RAMEN GIRL (TAMPA) | |
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Date: March 19 Showcasing Japanese culture and lifestyle, the Consulate General of Japan in Miami and the University of South Florida proudly present a film screening and food tasting event featuring the hit film "The Ramen Girl," starring the late Brittany Murphy. About the film:
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| The Southern Japan Seminar | |
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Date: March 13, 2010 The Southern Japan Seminar (SJS) promotes the research and educational activities of Japan-related scholars in the Southeastern United States. Drawing upon the strengths and needs of regional Japan studies, SJS fosters critical inquiry, multi-disciplinary discussion, and the dissemination of knowledge, concerning all Japan-related topics, both theoretical and practical. The membership is composed primarily of university faculty, with a few journalists, businesspersons, and other professionals with strong Japan-related interests. Members represent the fields of Japanese art, business management, education, history, language, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, sociology, and other disciplines. SJS is housed in Asian Studies at Florida International University.
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| Asian Culture Festival 2010 | |
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Date: March 6, 7
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| Kusama at Fairchild | |
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Date: Now through May 30 Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden presents Yayoi Kusama at Fairchild as part of its annual art program. The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, known for her distinctive sculptures and paintings that involve hand-worked repetition and bold patterning, will be exhibiting works from the exuberant new sculptural ensemble Flowers that Bloom at Midnight (2009), a group of her classic Pumpkins, as well as a multi-part, floating work specifically conceived for one of Fairchild’s large ponds. This will be the first time anywhere in the world that all these sculptures have been shown together in an outdoor setting. Yayoi Kusama at Fairchild will open on December 5, 2009, to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach, and
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| Japanese Films at the Women's International Film Festival | |
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The First Breath of Tengan Rei The First Breath of Tengan Rei is a revenge drama that evolves into a tale of redemption and reconciliation. Set against the ongoing American military presence on the Japanese island Okinawa, the film explores the psychic consequences of occupation, for both occupier and the occupied. It questions the possibility of transformation for the victim and perpetrators of a heinous crime, finding hope in the hard road of forgiveness. Mothers Way Daughters Choice I love my mother, but I just don’t want to be like her.” Why would successful women from the world’s second largest economic power choose to start their lives over in New York City? The documentary “Mothers’ Way, Daughters' Choice” explores how several Japanese women struggle to reconcile their traditional upbringing and their desire to create unique lives. To understand these struggles, the director, Kyoko Gasha, shows the deep, powerful influences of Japanese culture on her own life. Kyoko also uncovers stories of other Japanese women in New York City, weaving parallel tales of guilt, denial, sacrifice and joy. This is a story of cultures clashing on a personal level.
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| JETAA Tsudoi in Tampa | |
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Date: March 5 Tsudoi is an informal gathering to meet people who share an interest in Japan. No agendas, no rules. Just hang out and chat. It's a great way to meet new people who share similar interests. |
| Tokyo Nights II | |
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Date: March 27 On March 27, 2010, 7:00 PM, members of the Sho No Ryu dance studio of Tokyo, Japan will be at the Marina Civic Center in Panama City, Florida for a return engagement. The two hour performance will feature a variety of dances, form the classical to the contemporary. Through song and dance the performers will take you on a journey of sights and sounds from eleventh century imperial Japan to the more up beat sounds of modern Japan. Witness the grace and elegance of Japanese dance as it might have been performed for the emperor and his court. Visit the Japanese country side and hear the stirring and lively rhythm of Japanese folk dance. See how Japanese dances has evolved to fit the more contemporary sounds of modern Japan, without ever losing the elements and style that make Japanese dance unique. Tokyo Nights II will include a medley of dance from classic, to folk, to contemporary; but all the dances will be done in the traditional Japanese style, and in traditional Japanese costume. Don�t miss this beautiful spectacle; a once in a lifetime opportunity. Tickets on sale now at the Panama City, Marina Civic Center |
| 17th Annual Asian Food Fair & Culture Show 2010 | |
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Date: March 27, 28 The festival presents exemplary classical, folk and contemporary Asian art forms featuring local, regional, national and international artists. A number of artists and groups are selected to create a balance between professional and amateur artists. Approximately one third of the total budget is dedicated to fund the visual and performing arts component of the festival. Are you ready for one of the biggest Asian events of the year, Come and celebrate.
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| The Way of Taiko: The Heartbeat of Japan | |
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The workshop will include an introduction to the history of taiko. Participants will be taught how to understand sounds and movements, i.e., how to connect nature and the meaning of body movement. They will become familiar with the way of taiko and learn how to drum. Top performers from South Florida’s Fushu Daiko will conduct the workshop. The group is recognized by Seiichi Tanaka, the master of San Francisco Taiko Dojo, who brought taiko to the United States and who trained senior members of the Fushu Daiko group. |
| Hatsume Fair | |
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Date: March 20, 21 Celebrating the first bud of spring, The Morikami’s largest annual event, Hatsume, transforms the normally tranquil Morikami Park into a unique Japanese spring festival. Hatsume Fair Features: - Special Musical Performance by Tokyo based group Ensemble Otodama featuring blended rhythms of Jazz, Japanese music, Classical, and other world music.
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| The Art of Bonsai | |
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Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org Advance Registration Required
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| Japan and the Art of War | |
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Date: Now through March 15 The exhibition, drawn from the private collection of Mitchell “Micky” Wolfson, Jr. (renowned South Florida Collector and Social Historian) focuses on the period from the Meiji Restoration to the end of the Second World War (1860s -1945). The 80 objects in the exhibition include small civilian and military design objects, books, scrolls, postcards, games, posters, ephemera, and textiles from the Sino-Japanese Wars, Russo-Japanese War, and the periods of peace between. The exhibition is about art in Japan and how artists pictured war and conflict. Art was used to support or work against war through propagandized books, art, personal effects, and design pieces. |
| The Japan Craze and Western Art 1880-1920 | |
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Date: Now through August Japan emerged from 250 years of self-imposed isolation as a dazzling light of inspiration. Fascination with the art of Japan grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century and greatly influenced art and style in the West. Japanese compositional and formal characteristics in fact played a central role in the development of modern Western art. Like Europeans of the period, American designers produced Japanese-inspired decorative objects of all kinds. This vignette might be a contemporary room of someone who is much taken with that moment around 1900 when Japanese concepts of form, color, texture, and space were new and very fashionable. Image: THE BRIDGE
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| Sumi-e ink Painting - Introduction | |
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Date: TBA
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org Advance Registration Required
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| FROGS Folders in Ruskin Origami Group Service | |
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Date: March 1 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Meets on the first Monday of each month.
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| Sarasota Origami Club Meeting | |
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Date: Meets most Tues. @ 5:30 or 6 pm Where: New College of Florida, Sarasota Robertson Hall Conference Room. Details: Contact swu@ncf.edu.
Learn about the Japanese art of paper folding.
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| ORCHID Origami Recreational Club Meeting | |
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Date: March 1 Where: Roasters on San Jose, north of 295, Duval, FL Details: Contact amberh@coj.net. Origami is the art of paper folding.
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| Ikenobo
Ikebana Flower Arrangement
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Date: March 2, 9, 16, 23 Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446 Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org Advance Registration Required
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| Sumi-e
Ink Painting Floral & Landscape
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Date: March 4, 11, 18, 25 Sumi-e is a form of Japanese ink painting brought
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| Pensacola Gulf Coast Bonsai Society Meeting | |
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Date: March 4
Meets on the first Thursday of each month. Details: www.bonsai-bsf.com |
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Ikebana Flower Arrangement
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Date: March 5, 12, 19, 26 Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446 Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org Advance Registration Required
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| Stroll
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Date: TBA Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org
Participants will visit the Morikami Gardens for quiet contemplation as often as they wish over a 3-month period. A specially developed Journal, designed to enhance the experience, will be used as a guide and a means to record personal thoughts through the 12 themed garden strolls. There will be three meetings with the Journal's author, Associate Professor at the Christine E Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University. An explanation about the program will be provided during the first meeting; the second one, which will take place halfway through the program, will be used to answer any questions that may appear during the first few walks. Finally, the last meeting will take place at the end of the program and will include a discussion of participants' experiences.
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| Japanese Tea Ceremony Workshop | |
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Date: March 6 Participants will learn the basics of sado - Tea Ceremony - necessary to know in order to either learn more about the aesthetics of sado or better understand and fully enjoy the tea ceremony itself. They will become familiar with how to be a guest should you be invited to a Tea Ceremony, make a bowl of tea and serve it to a guest.
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| Central Florida Bonsai Club | |
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Date: March 12, 26 Meets on the second and fourth Friday of each month. Where: Orange County Cooperative Extension
The CFBC was founded in 1969 and is a member of BSF. They
meet twice a month, once for a meeting and demo and once for a hands on
workshop, no holds barred, bring in what you want fun Bonsai night.
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| Raising
Orchids
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Date: TBA Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, Advance Registration Required Students will learn the secrets of growing orchids. Topics covered include orchid culture as well as repotting, pests, diseases, fertilization and the many varieties of orchids.
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| Gold Coast Bonsai Society Meeting | |
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Date: March 13 Time: 9:30 am Meets on the second Saturday of each month.
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| Sado Omote Senke Tea Ceremony Class | |
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Date: March 7,14 |
| Bonsai Society of Miami | |
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Date: March 9 Meets on the second Tuesday of each month. 10901 Old Cutler Rd., Miami
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| Hisshin Chapter Sumi-e Ink Painting | |
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Date: March 11 Meets on the second Thursday of each month. 175 Landrum Lane, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082 Details: rondawncoleman53@bellsouth.net or joescotty@comcast.net.
Sumi-e is the Asian art of ink painting that has been in existence for thousands of years. The Four Treasures - Ink (Sumi), Inkstone (suzuri), brush (fude) and paper (kami) are the beautiful tools used in this art form. Guests are welcome to attend meetings/paint-ins. Scotty Thorton will lead a painting session on Shikhisi boards.
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| J.Club Meeting | |
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Date: March 20
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| Kawa Bonsai Society | |
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Date: March 19 Time: 7:30 pm Meets on the third Friday of each month. Where: Flagler County Agricultural Extension Office, Sawgrass Road,Bunnell , FL . Details: http://www.kawabonsai.com/, (386) 586-3437 GPartelow1@cfl.rr.com Besides monthly meetings, visiting artists, an annual three day show called the Joy of Bonsai, Kawa also participates in the statewide Convention of the Bonsai Societies of Florida.
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| Ikebana International Meeting - Miami Chapter | |
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Date: March 16 |
| Sado, The Way of Tea
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Date: March 13 Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens 4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach, FL 33446 Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org Advance Registration Required Observe the Japanese Tea Ceremony in the Seishi-an Tea House, an ever-changing demonstration rich in seasonal subtleties. Your involvement in the true spirit of the ceremony of tea; harmony (wa), reverence (kei), purity (sei), and tranquility (jaku), along with a sip of green tea and a sweet, will help bring a calm perspective into your busy life. |
| Bonsai Society of Brevard Meeting | |
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Date: March 20 Meets on the third Saturday of each month. Learn about the Japanese art of bonsai.
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| Gainesville Bonsai Society Meeting | |
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Date: March 20 Meets on the third Saturday of each month. Where: Kanapaha Botanical Gardens4700 S.W. 58th Drive, Gainesville Details: www.afn.org/~bonsai/ Learn about the Japanese art of bonsai.
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| Hukyu Bonsai Society Meeting | |
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Date: March 20 Meets on the third Saturday of each month. Where:
University of South Florida Botanical Gardens, Tampa Intersection of Pine and Alumni. |
| Bonsai Society of Lakeland Meeting | |
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Date: March 18 Meets on the third Thursday of each month. Learn about the Japanese art of bonsai.
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| Arts & Crafts Workshop | |
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Date: TBA Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446 Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org Family Fun Programs are for those who want to explore and learn about Japanese culture through hands-on arts and crafts projects designed for the whole family. Families can create projects in an open workshop. |
| Furoshiki Workshop by Etnia Fusion | |
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Date: April 24; May 1 Come and celebrate the up coming Mother's Day with Etnia Fusion by Nefertiti and Casablanca Furnishing & gifts, to enhance this special holiday a Furoshiki Workshop will be offered to those interested on experiencing the versatility of this Japanese invention. Nefertiti, founder of Etnia Fusion will be sharing her knowledge and delighting the crowd with a creative display of Furoshiki and its functional applications to our daily life like gift wrapping. Feel free to bring the item of your choice to be wrapped in a one on one demonstration. There will be Furoshiki for sale during the event. Special discounted prices on the exquisite line of merchandise from Casablanca will be extended to the participants of this activity. Private instruction available upon request.
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| Terminal Tunes featuring Japanese Dance by Etnia Fusion | |
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Date: TBA
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| Lighthouse Bonsai Society Meeting | |
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Date: March 27 Meets on the fourth Saturday of each month. Lighthouse Bonsai Society is a group of novices as well as experienced enthusiasts. The more experienced are more than helpful. Our meetings are fun and educational. They have Visiting Masters, Hands On Workshops, Demonstrations plus much more. Ask to be placed on their mailing list.
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| Ikenobo Annual Demonstration & Exhibition | |
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Date: March 6 Ikenobo Ikebana Society of South Florida presents its Annual Demonstration and Exhibition. Our style is the origin of Ikebana, and the oldest school of Japanese flower arrangement.
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| Japan Through the Eyes of a Child | |
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Date: New Permanent Exhibit Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446 Japan Through the Eyes of a Child transports young visitors from Florida to far-off Japan, allowing them to step into the world of Japanese culture. Inside the redesigned Yamato-kan, children will experience the super fast “Bullet Train,” the Shinkansen, an elementary school classroom, a street of shops, and a traditional Japanese home.
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| Permanent Bonsai Display | |
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Where: Brevard Zoo 8225 N. Wickham Rd., Melbourne, FL 32940 Details: (321)254-9453 or www.brevardzoo.org A wonderful exhibit with eight bonsai trees. |
| Permanent Bonsai Display | |
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Where: University of South Florida Botanical Gardens Details:
(813) 974-2329 or www.cas.usf.edu/garden/
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