Here’s the official event flyer with list of performers, food for purchase, displays & presentations for our upcoming New Year’s festival. As usual there will also be door prizes from some of the Japanese vendors (i.e. restaurants) in Tucson.

First New Year’s mochi pounding festival was held at Yume Japanese Gardens, then at Rhythm Industry Performing Center (home of Odaiko Sonora), with the next three years at Pima Community College Downtown campus.  The TJF 2019 has grown larger, and will be moved to the lovely Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, with the same Japanese activities for children and adults, delicious food (takoyaki, ramen, etc.) and musical/dance performances.

Stay tuned for schedule of events in January, prior to the festival. More info will also be on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/southernazjapan/.  Phone # for info is 520-577-1763 (leave a message).

Southern Arizona Japanese Cultural Coalition (SAJCC)  is hosting our 6th New Year’s festival, with new location at Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, 1288 W. River Rd. (east of La Canada Drive, north side).

First New Year’s mochi pounding festival was held at Yume Japanese Gardens, then at Rhythm Industry Performing Center (home of Odaiko Sonora), with the next three years at Pima Community College Downtown campus.  The Tucson Japanese Festival  2019 has grown larger, and will be moved to the lovely Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, with the same Japanese activities for children and adults, delicious food (takoyaki, ramen, etc.) and musical/dance performances. Door prizes will be given out as in past years.

Ticket price is still the same: $5 adults, free for children 5 years and under.

Updates will be on here on our website and our  FB page:

www.facebook.com/southernazjapan/

“At year’s end, Japanese flank the entrances of their homes and shops with pairs of kadomatsu – arrangements of bamboo and pine boughs – to welcome ancestral spirits and to assure themselves of prosperity in the New Year.

At 1:00 pm on December 12, Yume Executive Director Patricia Deridder will demonstrate how to make these traditional “gate pine” decorations. Attendance is free with regular Gardens admission, and no reservation is needed.”

www.yumegardens.org

View watercolors by Ross Iwamoto (former SAJCC Director) and local acrylic artist Makoto Takigawa at this upcoming show, opening on December 6 at 7 p.m.

Ross Iwamoto is Sansei, grew up on the island of Molokai in Hawaii.

Makoto Takigawa is from Japan, and got his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute.

https://www.takigawastudio.com/

The Mexican Consulate in Tucson is located on the NE corner of E. Broadway Blvd. and N.  Alvernon Way, 3915 E. Broadway Blvd.