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Steinway Piano Gala with Jon Nakamatsu on Oct. 29 to 31
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Monthly Archives: October 2018
Gila River Monument clean up and remembrance on November 3
· Hosted by JACL Arizona Chapter
“On Saturday, November 3, 2018, chapter and community members will gather for the autumn Gila River Monument Clean-up. This visit will be marked as a time of remembrance.
This project consists of picking up trash and painting over graffiti. Supplies, such as trash bags, paint, brushes, gloves, as well as water, will be provided. Participants are advised to wear outdoor-appropriate work clothing and footgear.
Participants will assemble at the Casa Blanca Market/Gas Station (2577 Casa Blanca Road, Bapchule, AZ 85121, Exit 175 from the I-10) at 9:00 a.m., prompt. A Gila River Land Use Ordinance Officer will escort us onto the monument site via car caravan. If entering the site, participants are required to provide their names and the description and license plate of their vehicles to the officer. If interested in this project, please submit names and vehicle information to Donna Cheung [dcheung2721@gmail.com] or 602-501-3505 by Saturday, October 27. Thank you.
Lunch reception and programming to follow.”
Fall Enchanted Evenings at Yume Japanese Gardens on Oct. 25 to 29
Fall Enchanted Evenings at Yume Japanese Gardens on
Oct. 25 to 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Shakuhachi flute player Paul Amiel at Yume Japanese Gardens
“Venture into the Gardens after dusk and immerse yourself in the bewitching glow of candle- and lantern light, accompanied by evocative recorded traditional Japanese melodies played on bamboo flute, thekoto (the 13-stringed national instrument of Japan), and theshamisen, or Japanese lute.
This fall our Enchanted Evenings take place from Thursday, October 25 to Monday, October 29. Stroll Yume’s paths from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, in search of haunting perceptions of a landscape that you can sense, but not readily see. Admission is $15 per person.
Parking for this event is restricted to the lot inside our main gate on North Alvernon Way and to East Justin Lane, one half block south of the Gardens. Parking is NOT permitted on East Hampton Place, immediately north of Yume. If you park on a residential street, please be mindful not to block our neighbors’ driveways.”
2130 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson
Japanese performances, cultural arts, & food at Tucson Meet Yourself on Oct. 12 to 14
Tucson Meet Yourself, annual folk life festival to be held only at Jacome Plaza outside of Joel D. Valdez main library (101 N. Stone Avenue) and the neighboring streets of Church Avenue, Pennington Street, and Stone Avenue.
Friday, October 12 | 11am – 10pm (no performances between 2 and 5pm on Friday, but plenty of food and folk art)
Saturday, October 13 | 11am – 10pm
Sunday, October 14 | 11 am-6pm
Odaiko Sonora taiko drummers performs on Oct. 13, at 5 p.m. at the Church Avenue stage (just south of Alameda St.)
Karen Falkenstrom (right), founder of Odaiko Sonora drumming
October 14, all at Church Ave. Stage:
Aikido Shoubu Dojo at 11 a.m.
UA Kyudo & AZ Kyudo Kai (Japanese archery) at 11:30 a.m.
Suzuyuki Kai traditional kabuki dance performance at 3 p.m.
Schedule: www.tucsonmeetyourself.org
https://www.tucsonmeetyourself.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/TMY-Perform-SCHEDULE-Sept-17.pdf
6 takoyaki (octopus) balls
Info about Tomomi Katz’s Takoyaki booth (also serving Japanese curry/rice this year):
“Our booth this year will be on Pennington and Stone, close to U of A store in downtown. This time, we are planning to cook Takoyaki, and Japanese Curry ? rice. ? We hope to see you at the booth.”
Takoyaki/ramen booth at 2017 Tucson Meet Yourself, with owner Tomomi Katz (2nd from left, back row, and husband Michael Katz to her left)
Japanese cultural arts will be taught on Pennington Street (see map for Folks Art area):
Akiko Victorson – Japanese Shodo calligraphy
Chieko (Chi) Nakano – origami
Ai Ogawa’s “Killing Floor” book launch & reception on October 13 at UA Poetry Center
Ai Ogawa’s “Killing Floor” book launch & reception on October 13, at UA Poetry Center
5 to 7:30 p.m., 1508 E. Helen St. Tucson
“Join us in a celebration of Ai, one of Tucson’s great poets, and hear readings from her critically acclaimed second book and from the Poetry Center’s voca archives. Event offered in partnership with Tavern Books, which is republishing a 40th anniversary edition of the previously out-of-print collection.
After the readings, we’ll be hosting a reception with drinks and light snacks, free and open to the public.”
From Poemhunter.com:
Ai Ogawa (fna Florence Anthony)
“Ai, who has described herself as Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, Black, Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche, was born in Albany, Texas in 1947, and she grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Raised also in Las Vegas and San Francisco, she majored in Japanese at the University of Arizona and immersed herself in Buddhism.
Florence Anthony was a National Book Award winning American poet and educator who legally changed her name to Ai Ogawa. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for Vice.
She legally changed her name to “Ai,” which means “love” in Japanese. She said “Ai is the only name by which I wish, and indeed, should be known. Since I am the child of a scandalous affair my mother had with a Japanese man she met at a streetcar stop, and I was forced to live a lie for so many years, while my mother concealed my natural father’s identity from me, I feel that I should not have to be identified with a man, who was only my stepfather, for all eternity.”