Date: Saturday,
April 11, 2009
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Place: Beach City Rocks (
www.beachcityrocks.com)
4926 W. Rosecrans Avenue, Hawthorne, CA 90250
Phone Number of Gym: 310-973-3388
Cost: $20 per person (includes group introductory lesson, equipment, 2 hour climb with supervision).
We have maxed out all RSVPs, but for inquiries, please direct them to Nancy Kikuchi
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If you cannot make it to rock-climbing, join us for the Korean BBQ nijikai in Gardena at the
Yellow Cow.
Time: 6:30pm
Place: Yellow Cow
1835 W. Redondo Beach Blvd
Gardena, CA 90247
4/26: Nihongo Dake @ Hollywood
Nihongo Dake is back! Think your Japanese skills need some extra work? Join us for a delightful afternoon of Japanese conversation, food and drinks. JET Alum Mike Coleman has generously offered to host NDD in his home in Hollywood, and it will be a relaxed affair. Bring something to share, such as drinks or appetizers. Please email Olivia at olivia@jetaasc.org with your name, prefecture and year of placement. Let's Nihongo!
Date: Sunday April 26
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Directions will be emailed to you a week before the event
5/29 to 5/31: Camp JET@ Lake Arrowhead
The weather will be warmer for some overnight camping in Lake Arrowhead, so join JETAASC and let's rough it up! The cost is $15/person, and it will include Saturday and Sunday meals. Please email Jim at
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for RSVPs!
Date: Friday May 29 to Sunday May 31
When: Friday late afternoon till Sunday morning
Location: Lake Arrowhead
5/8: Spring Networking Event (tentative)
OTHER EVENTS
4/22: Pecha Kucha Night
What is Pecha Kucha? The word is actually the sound of conversation in Japanese, but it is also a revolutionizing way of using PowerPoint as a way to share ideas creatively. 20 images each shown for 20 seconds each. It's the magic of a presentation in a small allotted space of time. Do you accept the challenge?
When: Wednesday, April 22
Where: The Mountain Bar (in L.A. Chinatown)
475 Gin Ling Way @ Hill Street / Los Angeles Ca 90012
Take the Metro Gold Line and get off on Chinatown Station
Information: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/los-angeles
4/23: Sake Mystery Night
A sake and food tasting event benefitting the Little Tokyo Service Center.
When: Thursday, April 23, 7pm - 9:30pm
Where: California Science Center
Tickets and information: http://www.LTSC.org
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata
Synopsis: Internationally recognized director Kiyoshi Kurosawa delivers a real-life narrative film that is just as compelling and darkly chilling as the thrillers and genre horror films for which he is famous. The broad disintegration of traditional Japanese life in the face of the cultural and business pressures of modernity and globalization is shown in "TOKYO SONATA" through the example of one upper middle-class family as it unravels into despair and dysfunction.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa won a jury award at the Cannes Film Fesival and multiple prizes at several Japanese film festivals.
Visit Laemmle's Sunset 5, the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena or the Town Center 5 in Encino to check the movie out, even if you didn't win tickets.
TOKYO - A film by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-Ho
"Three of the world cinema's great visionaries: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-Ho each dirct a segment of this surreal triptych set in ultra-modern metropolis of Tokyo, Japan.
Screenings at:
Irvine, CA
Edwards Westpark 8 Cinema
http://www.fandango.com/edwardswestpark8_aabhq/theaterpage?wssac=58&wssaffid=11481_REGWebsite
West Hollywood, CA
Laemmle's Sunset 5
http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2
Pasadena, CA
Laemmle's Playhouse 7
http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=6
More information: http://www.tokyothemovie.com
"Tales of the Extraordinary" Podcast and Dungeonmaster
Mike Coleman podcasts a 1920's pulp adventure radio serial called "Tales of the Extraordinary." One of the recent story arcs took place in Japan (Ibaraki and Tokyo) in 1926 and has a lot of Japan inside
jokes. More info at: http://emptysea.netThe second is our live show here in Hollywood, Dungeonmaster. Our Spring Season is starting on March 8th and going through May. Every two weeks is a different episode, written for that show. More info at:
http://www.the-dungeonmaster.com
