Japan Week

June 29, 8pm
June 30, 1pm & 8pm

Boxes

Tateuchi Auditorium - SF Japantown
1830 Sutter Street, San Francisco
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Referencing the work of writer Kobo Abe, this new interdisciplinary collaboration from Melody Takata explores the investment in identity in today’s racialized and technology-driven existence. In this pursuit, Boxes brings together a multi-dimensioned ensemble drawing on artistic languages from traditional Japanese culture to the avant garde visual, media, and sound arts. Featuring musician/dancer Melody Takata, saxophonist Francis Wong, tuba player William Roper of Los Angeles, bassist, shamisen, taiko artist, and filmmaker Tatsu Aoki of Chicago, Taiko and Visual Artist Kioto Aoki of Chicago, and Grandmaster of the nagauta (kabuki style) shamisen Chizuru Kineya of Tokyo. →

PEACE PLAZA
Shigin-poetry, Taiko - drumming, Minyo - folk music & dance, Chicago guest Grand Master Shunojo Fujima Nihon Buyo - classical dance

JAPAN CENTER EAST MALL
Koto ensemble, Toyoaki and Nagauta shamisen, Origami, Shodo, Mataro, Odori

UNION BANK COMMUNITY ROOM
Origami - paper folding, Shodo - calligraphy, Mataro - doll making

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