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Date: May 6 1101 MacArthur Causeway, Watson Island
Coming May 6, 2012 Spring Festival. This day is a celebration of Japanese culture; food, music, clothing, flower arrangements (Ikebana), Manga and Anime
Sponsorship & Booth information 786-457-6446 |
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Date: May 12 Jacksonville, Florida, USA 32202 Details: event details
Celebrate Asia 2012 - A night of entertainment filled with celebrities from various Asian countries, flying to Jacksonville, Florida, especially to support this inaugural event. It will be a fun-filled festivity showcasing dancing lions and dragons, Asian celebrities, live Asian music, traditional Asian cuisine, ballroom dancing and more… all in Jacksonville, Florida. We party with our Asian celebrities from as far as Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Singapore! |
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Date: June 9 Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tampa Natsumatsuri is a community-based Japanese summer festival, just like you would find in small villages in Japan. This event is organized by local residents who are interested in Japan and/or have lived in Japan. The event is sponsored by Florida JETAA, the Consulate of Japan in Miami, Tokyo Mokyo, and others. It features Japanese food, traditional festival games, and exhibits of Japanese arts.
The event is free. Donations are asked for games and food.
Come wearing your yukata or jinbei and help us celebrate summer!
If you'd like to participate in the festival by hosting an activity or exhibition, please contact us at tampakumi@gmail.com
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Dates: May 27-29
Started in 2011, Florida Anime Experience is a fan convention designed to focus specifically on anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture. The “No Halo in our Game Room” policy extends through the DNA of our event. Many anime conventions in and around Florida have, in recent years, diluted themselves by incorporating elements of comic books, science fiction, steam punk, and video games that have little to nothing to do with Asian based popular culture. We’re looking to change that…
The Florida Anime Experience team has worked hard from day one to design an anime convention that caters to fans of classic movies and series along with newer titles for younger Otaku. In year one, we were proud to bring the voice of Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Speigel to Florida: Steve Blum.
For year two, we have a very special treat. Terri Hawkes, the English speaking voice of Sailor Moon, will be making her first ever anime convention appearance in the United States at Florida Anime Experience 2012. |
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Dates: June 15-17 Tampa, FL
What Is METROCON?
Since its inception, METROCON has continuously evolved, blazing the path for events like the Anime Human Chess Match, the Fantasy Masquerade, and more recently live fire shows and the METRO Star Party. METROCON has continued to grow not only in popularity, but also in space, with the Main Events Room moving upstairs to the Tampa Convention Center's West Hall (a whopping 75,000 square feet!) in 2007. By utilizing innovative new ideas and acquiring some of the best staff in the industry, METROCON has set the bar for anime convention entertainment around the country. |
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| Anime & Japanese Culture Fest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: June 23
We are proud to present our first Anime and Japanese Culture Fest! Join us for Miyazaki’s famous and very beautiful film, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Okamura’s adventurous Naruto: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow. Highlights of the day include a display of Japanese motorcycles, Taiko drummers, a Karate demonstration, bonsai display, origami, manga, Japanese snacks, a “cosplay” Costume Contest (so, dress up!), and much more! Co-sponsored by Tate’s Comics of Lauderhill. There’s something for everyone so be here for this special event! |
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Date: June 29-July 2
FLORIDA SUPERCON: South Florida's Comic Book, Anime, Animation, Video Game, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Pop Culture Convention is June 29th-July 2nd, 2012 for 4 days of fun dedicated to Comic Books, Anime, Animation, Video Games, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and all of pop culture featuring celebrity guests,comic book creators, voice actors, industry guests, cosplayers, artists, writers, panels, Q&A's, films & shorts, costume & cosplay contests,vendors, parties, anime, workshops, video gaming and more! 2012 will be the 7th annual Florida Supercon! |
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| Old Techniques, New Interpretations: Japanese Prints from the 1950s to the 21st Century, From the Collection of Paul and Christine Meehan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: February 7 - May 6
In the early 20th century, Japanese woodblock print-making experienced a revival with the development of shin hanga, the ‘modern print’ movement, and sōsaku hanga, the ‘creative print’ movement. While shin hanga attempted to revive the techniques and subject matter of the centuries-old ukiyo-e tradition, which had reached its apogee in the 18th and 19th centuries, sōsaku hanga reacted against it. The vibrant prints of beautiful women and picturesque landscapes of ukiyo-e and, later, shin hanga were the enterprise of a guild, carried out by several different craftsmen that included the designer-artist, wood carver, colorist, printer, and publisher. In contrast, sōsaku hanga artists controlled every aspect of their work from designing the image and carving the block, to inking and printing the paper. In comparison, their compositions were also much more expressive and abstract.
In the early 1950s, sōsaku hanga artists began producing works that reflected a more contemporary view of the world, resulting in a postwar print revival that looked with great intellectual introspection at contemporary Western art – a blending of East and West. Throughout the decades, these artists experimented with different materials and printmaking techniques, producing highly conceptual prints that gave a definitive nod to contemporary developments in European and American painting, from the abstract aesthetics of Wassily Kandinsky (1866 – 1944) to the expressionist drip paintings of Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956). The exhibition at the Morikami Museum features over 60 prints that celebrate over 40 years of sosaku hanga masters from Kiyoshi Saitō (1907 – 1997) to Toko Shinoda (b. 1913), among many others. Funding for this exhibition is made possible by The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation.
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Date: February 7 - May 6
Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto transforms extraordinary metal sculptures and a variety of found objects and intricate ephemera into music boxes, clocks, and other constructions with multiple doors, compartments, drawers and moving parts. Her meticulous, hand-crafted sculptural vignettes, comprising a mélange of objects, present a wide range of whimsical, often surrealist, scenes reminiscent of various places and times, from Victorian-era Boston to 1950s Tokyo. Her work incorporates a variety of metal-smithing techniques, etching, enameling, and casting. With each box sculpture, Kusumoto presents a magical world of astounding detail and artistry. The exhibition was organized by Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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Date: March 11 - December 31
This exhibit explores how Japan influenced culture in Europe and America and how the America and Europe influenced Japan. The exhibit will feature grand pieces from the Tampa Bay Hotel collection, private collectors and several museums. Photo from Polk Museum of Art Permanent Collection
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| Muted Imprints: An Installation by Misako Inaoka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: March 27 - May 20
Misako Inaoka is known for her kinetic sculpture and site-specific installations. The artist’s desire to carefully construct miniature environments that evoke wilderness, but are grounded in technology, comes from a long-standing interest in, as she says, “the boundary between what we call natural and artificial.” Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1977, Inaoka lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Expect to walk among birds twittering in tree branches, a deer shyly glancing up at you, and fantastical worlds tucked behind an ordinary wall. Expect also to find bizarre combinations of animal and machine, both endearing and unsettling. An incremental tilt of a small bird’s head when you near it, or a flash of light and color glimpsed through a peephole in an otherwise unobtrusive wall, signals the viewer that they should move in, as close as possible, to delight in the invented creatures and landscapes of Inaoka’s imagination. The relationship between the viewer and Inaoka’s artwork is one of discovery. The viewer’s presence brings the exhibition to life, literally.
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| Ghosts, Goblin, and Gods: The Supernatural in Japanese Art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: May 22 - September 16 Details: Event Details
The tenets of Shintō, Japan’s native religion are based on the belief that spirits inhabit the natural world, both animate and inanimate objects including rocks, mountains, trees, rivers and lakes. Some of these gods are regarded as guardian spirits while others are harmful tricksters, deceiving humans and coaxing them into foolish, reckless behavior. This exhibition comprises an array of paintings, colorful woodblock prints, sculptures, masks and other objects depicting a host of legendary ghosts, gods, and other-worldly beings. Among the mythical tricksters on view are tengu, half-man, half-bird forest creatures with long noses that are said to abduct children and the magical foxes and badgers that transform themselves into human form. Featured also are representation of the Japanese gods of good fortune, wisdom, and long life, including Ebisu, the god of fishermen, Daikoku, the god of agriculture, Fukurokuju, the god of wisdom and long life, Hotei, the god of happiness, and his feminine equivalent, Okame, the plump-cheeked cheerful goddess of mirth. Lastly, the exhibit would not be complete without including some fuzzy goblins from the popular Pokemon series, which have contributed to making monsters a popular theme in Japanese culture today!
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| Souvenirs of Modern Asia: The Prints of Paul Jacoulet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: June 26, 2012 - February 03, 2013
Souvenirs of Modern Asia features a remarkable set of 55 woodcuts by French artist Paul Jacoulet (1896-1960) who lived and worked in Japan most of his life. These colorful and masterfully printed woodcuts were inspired by Jacoulet’s extensive travels in China, Japan, Korea and the South Pacific and demonstrate a synthesis of traditional Japanese printing techniques with modern European aesthetics. The exhibition provides an opportunity to celebrate recent gifts of prints from the collections of Linda and Eugene Finkin and Norma and William Roth. The exhibition also includes a unique selection of archival materials, such as letters, brochures and photographs, related to the artist. These were gifted to the museum by Eugene Finkin whose mother, Dorothy Finkin, was Jacoulet’s New York dealer
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Date: May 5 Details: event details
Come and enjoy Children’s Day at the Morikami, a Japanese holiday celebrated on May 5th. Make traditional prints using real fish! The Japanese used to make prints of fish to document their amazing catch of the day, similar to us taking snapshots with our prize catch. |
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Date: May 5
May 5th is Children’s Day in Japan and the Koinobori are flying high in the sky! This is the best time to have a Family JETAA outing. So come on out with your family or friends to the Miami Zoo on Children’s Day!
For admission prices, discounts and more info you can visit : http://www.miamimetrozoo.com/visit-the-zoo.asp
Please RSVP to Facebook Event and email wlo1[@]hotmail.com |
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| Demonstrations of Sado: The Way of Tea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: May 19; June 16
Observe the Japanese Tea Ceremony in the Seishin-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. This program is usually held the third Saturday of the month from October to June at noon, 1 pm, 2 pm, and 3 pm in the Seishin-an Tea House. Learn more about Japanese Tea Ceremony. |
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Date: May 11, June 8, July 13, August 24, and September 14 Summer nights in South Florida are something special, especially when they are augmented with taiko drums and a cultural backdrop that can't be beat! Add a cold drink, a breathtaking sunset and a walking path through a tranquil garden, and you've got Sushi & Stroll Summer Walks! Stroll the gardens at your own pace and take advantage of our self-guided audio tour. Excite your palate with something delicious from our own Cornell Café, indulge in some shopping at the Museum Store or tantalize your senses with a drumming performance by Fushu Daiko. |
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