Here and There

A list of Japan-related events and exhibitions beyond Japan Society.

EVENTS

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Tokio Confidential

February 5-19, 2012
Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2
330 West 16th Street

A New Musical in which Noh meets Noir (Noh-oir)
Words and Music by Eric Schorr
Directed by Johanna McKeon

Japan.  1879.  Isabella Archer, a young American war widow crosses an ocean in search of a lost love—and is about to cross a line from which she can never return. It’s a journey across the boundaries between pleasure and pain, art and artifice, the secrets of the flesh and the sins of the heart. When Isabella falls in love with a renowned Japanese tattoo artist, she enters a world of extreme beauty, becoming an object of unexpected desire—in a realm of unspeakable danger.

Japan Society members receive a 20% discount by using promotion code TCJS1.

More Information at www.tokioconfidential.com.

Music From Japan Festival 2012

February 18-19, 2012
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street, NYC

As we near the first anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of 2011 – Music From Japan dedicates Festival 2012 to helping raise funds for and awareness of Iitate, one village that has been especially impacted by the nuclear calamity, and to which MFJ Artistic Director has close personal ties. Iitate Mayor Norio Kanno will deliver an exclusive lecture before the first concert, as well as participating in a discussion forum after the second.

Festival 2012 opens with “Resonances of the Kugo” showcasing the angular harp, and one of its leading exponents, Fuyuhiko Sasaki (Feb 18). This program includes world premieres of three MFJ commissions, including two for Iitate. The second program – “Commissioned Chamber Premieres” (Feb 19) – presents five further MFJ commissions including Akiko Yamane’s Time, Come Around: Madei Rondo, written especially for the children of Iitate and will be performed by children from the New York Ikuei Academy Chorus.

TICKETS
http://www.merkinconcerthall.org/

Remember Japan Golf Tournament

April 10, 2012
The Golf Club at Ballantyne
10000 Ballantyne Commons Parkway, Charlotte, NC

Hosted by Sompo Japan America and SJA Agency LLC
Benefiting Japan Society’s Japan Earthquake Relief Fund

Registration and silent auction start at 11 AM.
Golf tournament starts at 1 PM.

For tickets, sponsorships, and information, visit http://werememberjapan.org.

EXHIBITIONS

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KARUIZAWA DREAMSCAPE
Photographs by Tom Haar

Untitled (KD-1), 2011.

January 20 - February 14, 2012
Gallery 'Iolani, Kane'ohe, Hawaii
Windward Community College
45-720 Kea'ahala Road
Kane'ohe, Hawaii 96744

An impressionistic view of the Karuizawa environs, with dream-like images tying vague early recollections with recent imagery. 

This exhibition is based on photography and research done in the summer of 2008, when I spent three months in Karuizawa on a Fulbright Grant. The impetus to work on this project stems from the fact that our family was ordered to evacuate to Karuizawa for a three-year period during World War II and afterward (1943-46). As I was still very small during this time, I only have slight recollections of these years, which were very difficult for my parents, who had arrived in Japan only three years earlier. This project, then, became a way for me to "rediscover" Karuizawa through photography, a craft which I learned from my father, Francis Haar.

[Photographer Tom Haar was present at the opening of Japan Society's building in 1971 and documented many important events at the Society during the early to mid 1970s.]

gallery.wcc.hawaii.edu