Events Calendar 2009
2009 Shakuhachi Society of British Columbia Shinnenkai
location: Peter Smith's house: 5187 Windsor
date: January 26 , 2009
time: 7:30-11:30 PM
As usual, this event is a potluck so bring please bring a tasty (and healthy) goodie! We'll view a slide show of photos from the last Shakuhachi Roots Pilgrimage #5. We'll all play a piece to chime in the new year!
2009 Victoria Tea Festival
web: http://www.victoriateafestival.com/beanexhibitor.php
location: Crystal Garden
date: February 14, 15
time: 12-5 PM
The Victoria Tea Festival will provide you with an opportunity to sample a wide selection of teas originating from different regions of the world and prepared in unique ways by the different tea companies who will be present at the festival. Many exhibitors will also have products for sale.
In most traditions, tea is accompanied by food. Like wine, some teas are more enjoyable with the right food pairing. Tea houses, bakeries and restaurants will be at the festival providing samples of their food selections. Be sure to ask the tea representatives their recommended pairings and anticipate trying something new!
Deep Listening
web: http://www.eastiseast.ca/
location: East is East / Chai, 4413 Main Street (Main and 28th)
date: Sunday, February 22 , 2009
time: 7:00-10:00 PM
Join Pepe Danza and Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos for a night of deep listening music!
Japantown Multicultural Neighborhood Celebration
web: http://www.vjls-jh.com
location: Various venues, including: Japanese Hall, Oppenheimer Park, Chapel Arts, Kalayaan Centre
date: Saturday, March 28, 2009
time: 10:00am - 9:00pm
Celebrate the history, diversity, and enduring promise of Vancouver’s Japantown in the first Japantown Multicultural Neighbourhood Celebration (10:00am-9:00pm, March 28). This full day of cultural events and public forums reflects upon the journeys of the past, the diversity of the present, and the promise of the future.
Share stories of growing up, working and participating in Japantown. View displays of the past, present and future of the neighbourhood. Enjoy music and spoken word performances. Participate in a street procession featuring local groups and an Okinawan children’s choir and attend an afternoon ceremony honouring the milestones and initiatives of the community. Cap off the day with a gala at the Japanese Hall featuring local artists such as Sawagi Taiko, and the First Nations a cappella trio M’Girl, as well as dancers from the Bandou-ryu School of Nihon Buyo from Tokyo.
The Japantown Multicultural Neighbourhood Celebration is produced by the Powell Street Festival Society, Tonari Gumi, Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall, and Vancouver Moving Theatre, in association with a host of community partners.
The Japantown Multicultural Neighbourhood Celebration takes place between 10:00am and 9:00pm on Saturday, March 28, 2009, at locations throughout Japantown. All events are free. For more information, call 604-628-5672 or visit http://www.vjls-jh.com.
2009 Under the Cherry Tree
Date: March 28th (Sat.) & 29th (Sun.), 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: VanDusen Botanical Gardens 5251 Oak Street (37th & Oak) Vancouver, B.C. V6M 4H1
Web: http://vancouver.ca/parks/parks/vandusen/website
2009 Ohanami at Niotbe Gardens, UBC
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009
Time: 3:00-8:00 p.m. (lanterns lit at 6:45)
Location: Nitobe Memorial Garden and Asian Centre, UBC.
Web: www.mokuyokai.bc.ca.
Find peace of mind beneath the splendor of cherry blossoms as you drink in the tranquility of an authentic Japanese tea ceremony and relax to the soothing tones of shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and koto (Japanese harp). Take a guided tour of the authentic Japanese garden, enjoy some refreshing matcha, origami demonstrations, the photo and haiku challenge, try on a traditional Yukata and enjoy a Japanese bento dinner. Top off your day with a tour of the garden by lantern-light, a magical, once-yearly event at Nitobe that should not be missed. Nitobe Memorial Garden is considered to be the one of the most authentic Japanese gardens in North America and among the top five Japanese gardens outside of Japan. Entrance to the Nitobe Memorial Garden is by donation during the Ohanami event.
Ten Nights of Dream
web: http://www.tomoearts.org/Performances/TomoePerformances.htm
location: Centre A
date: May 21, 22 and 23, 2009
time: 8 PM
Choreography and performance: Colleen Lanki
Composition and performance: Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos
Projection design and operation: Jamie Nesbitt and Theatre at UBC design team (Robert Gardiner)
Director: Matthew Romantini
Produced by: Tomoe Arts and Centre A
Funding in part from the BC Arts Council.
Ten Nights of Dream is a full-length performance combining solo choreographies, original music composition, and visual projected images, all based on Japanese novelist NATSUME Sôseki's uncanny and ghostly series of tales, Ten Nights of Dream (written in 1908). The choreographies are be based on nihon buyoh forms and principles, incorporating the necessary nihon buyoh elements of story, character/gender, and the use of the eyes as a choreographic element, but playing with the movement structures to bring them towards butoh and dance theatre. The original music combines traditional Japanese instruments with synthesized sounds, and the projections use still and moving images to deepen the atmosphere of the "dreams."
Four choreographies from Ten Nights of Dream have already had their premieres at the Firehall Arts Centre (two in BC Buds Spring Art Fair and two as part of the Dancing on the Edge Festival 2007). There has also been an open workshop presentation as part of the Dance Centre's DanceLab series in December 2007. The fully produced work will be presented in May 2009 at Centre A. There will be three performances, artist talkback sessions, and lecture-demos on nihon buyoh and Nastume Sôseki.
2009 Kurimoto Japanese Garden Spring Festival
Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009
Time: 2:30-3:05 p.m.
Location: Devonian Botanic Garden
Web:
A celebration of Japanese culture in a very special setting. Martial arts demonstrations, art demonstrations and displays, dance and music performances, children's activities, authentic tea ceremony offerings and more.
SETSUNA: In the Moment: Works on Paper
Date: Sunday, June 14, 2009
Time: 2-5 p.m.
Location: Metchosin Community House; 443o Happy Valley Rd.
Web: www.chiarina.com
Exhibition of new art works by Chiarina Loggia and Lesley Pechter. Satomi Saeki Edwards (koto) and Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos (shakuhachi) will be playing selections of classical and modern pieces for koto and shakuhachi.
33rd Annual Powell Street Festival
Date: Saturday, August 1st and Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Time: 2-5 p.m.
Location: WOODLAND PARK at 700 Woodland Drive
Web: http://www.powellstreetfestival.com/
The Powell Street Festival is an annual celebration of Japanese Canadian arts, culture and heritage that features something for everyone: dance, music, film and video, visual arts, martial arts demos, amateur sumo tournament, craft vendors, traditional displays, and of course, tons of scrumptious Japanese food.
PSF is the largest event of its kind in Canada and the longest running community arts festival in the Lower Mainland. We provide a much-needed venue for emerging and established, professional and amateur, and traditional and contemporary artists in the Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian communities.
The 22nd Annual Hackett Park Summer Crafts Fair
Date: August 15 & 16 2009
Time: 10am - 5pm
Location: Hackett Park, Sechelt
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The Annual 'Summer Arts & Crafts Fair' was started in 1987. It is held under the trees at Hackett Park in Sechelt on a Saturday/Sunday weekend at the beginning of August each year. Over 4000 local and off-Coast visitors attend this juried fair in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.
Quality work by participating artisans, food for the gourmet and the gourmand, live music, and children's activities ensure the Craft Fair is a fun event for everyone.
Uzume Taiko Ensemble Germany Tour
Date: Sept. 17 - Oct. 13, 2009
Locations and times: TBA
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Uzume Taiko Ensemble
Date: Dec. 12 & 13
Locations and times: TBA
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MIKO KURO Midnight Tea 1 Year Anniversary featuring Isshin Denshin Atmo Ensemble
Date: Dec. 12
Time: Midnight
Locations and times: TBA
Web: http://www.mikokuro.com/
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