Instructora Beriba hosts Mestre Sampaio of Cordao de Ouro at the JCC in Lakeview.
Friday, Jan. 21 from 6 pm - 8 pm and Saturday, Jan. 22 from 11 am - 1 pm.
The cost is $15 per workshop or $25 for both!
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Capoeira Workshop: Jan. 21 and Jan. 22, 2011
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Tatsu Aoki and the Miyumi Project, November 28
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
The Aikido International Foundation and the Chicago Human Rhythm Project is offering discounted tickets to the performance by Tatsu Aoki and the Miyumi Project on Sunday November 28, 2010. Purchase tickets at 10% discount by writing CHRP-AIKIDO under ”Promo Code”. Click here to purchase tickets.
More than 30 years ago, bassist-bandleader Tatsu Aoki took an artistic gamble: He began combining facets of ancient Japanese music with freewheeling jazz improvisation.
Though rudimentary, those first cross-genre efforts of his, in his native Japan, eventually blossomed into the Miyumi Project, now widely recognized as a groundbreaking merger of music from East and West.
Because Aoki moved to Chicago in the late 1970s and quickly set about developing his Asian-American experiment, the Miyumi Project has become a symbol of Chicago-style jazz innovation. Its rough-and-tumble sound, embracing everything from funk backbeats to blues vocals to avant-garde improv, has attracted audiences across the city and around the globe.
Howard Reich, 2008
Chicago Tribune
Pictures from the first annual Nihon Bunka (Japanese Culture) Festival
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010The event held last Thursday at Japonais hosted by the Aikido International Foundation featured demonstrations of arts taught at the Japanese Culture Center. Capoeira, Cut the Cancer program, Tea Ceremony, Iaido, and Aikido were all part of the festival. Guests enjoyed Honest Tea, Sapporo beer and hors d’oeuvres while learning about the different arts. Thank you for your continued support!
Nihon Bunka Festival at Japonais: 9/2 from 7 - 9 pm
Monday, August 9th, 2010
The Japanese Culture Center, Sapporo Beer, and Honest Tea will be sponsoring a Japanese Culture Festival this September 2nd, 2010 from 7 - 9 pm. See live demonstrations of martial arts, including aikido and capoeira, at this fundraiser hosted by the Aikido International Foundation. The upgraded admission price includes an open bar or beer, wine and Absolute vodka.
Tickets: $35; $20 sans open bar.
You can RSVP online at www.JapaneseCultureCenter.com orwww.aikidoaif.org/events/japonais
For more information contact: info@japaneseculturecenter.com
Film “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo” at the Gene Siskel Film Center 7.16-7.22
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo Directed by Jessica Oreck
i2009, 90 min
Working backwards through hsitory, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo explores the mystery of the development of Japan’s love affair with bugs. using insects like an anthropologist’s toolkit, the film uncover Japanese philosophies that will shift Westerners’ perspectives on nature, beauty, life, and even the seamingly mundane realities of their day-to-day routines. For show time schedule and movie trailer visit http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/beetlequeen
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“A parade of loosely, lyrically related scenes and images imbues the film with a wonder worthy of its subjects.” Wesley Morris - The Boston Globe “Beautifully filmed, seductively narrated.” V.A. Musetto - New York Post “a doorway to something huge and eternal. Bring the kids.” Joshua Rothkopf - Time Out New York “Entrancing.” David Edelstein - New York Magazine “Jessica Oreck’s documentary essay about Japan’s fascination with insects observes the phenomenon with a curious, incisive eye.” Richard Brody - The New Yorker “An expansive take on the world in miniature.” Eric Hynes - The Village Voice “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo manages to be an illuminating, delightful, breathtaking and captivating documentary for all ages.” Avi Offer - New York Movie Guru “Dazzling.” Mark Rifkin - This Week in New York “Engaging and poetic.” Maria Garcia - Film Journal International “Remarkable..quietly spellbinding” Justin Chang - VARIETY “Beetle Queen bristles with kinetic energy…A film to be heard as as seen” Micheal Chaiken FILM COMMENT “One of the more exhilarating new documentaries.” Michael Tully - Hammer to Nail
