August 14, 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Japantown Peace Plaza and Japan Center West Mall
Join us for Japan Day, a celebration of Japanese cultural arts, featuring free performances, activities, and demonstrations!
In the Japantown Peace Plaza, enjoy live performances in taiko drumming, karate, Japanese folk dance, Okinawan taiko & karate, and the Gintenkai National Project.
Next door, in the West Mall, you can get hands-on activities and demonstrations in origami paper folding, shodo Japanese brush calligraphy, and washi ningyo paper dolls.
Peace Plaza Performances
12:00PM – 12:30PM
GEN TAIKO AND ODORI SCHOOL
Japanese Traditional Drum and Dance performances
12:30PM – 12:45PM
GINTENKAI NATIONAL PROJECT
Japanese Traditional Drum – Chicago and San Francisco collaboration
12:45PM – 1:20PM
SAKURA REN
Japanese Dance Group
1:30PM – 2:00PM
PAGES
Electric shamisen, Taiko, and Saxophone performance
2:00PM – 2:35PM
SAKURA REN
Japanese Dance Group
2:35PM – 2:50PM
SHORINJI KEMPO
Japanese Martial Art
2:50PM – 3:15PM
“THE MEETING” FEATURING
FRANCIS WONG AND TATSU AOKI
Special music performance
3:15PM – 4:00PM
OSHIRO KARATE DOJO &
OKINAWA EISA SHIMA DAIKO
Japanese Karate group and Okinawan Taiko group
West Mall Demonstrations
12:00PM – 1:00PM
WASHI NINGYO
Japanese Paper Dolls
1:30PM – 2:30PM
ORIGAMI
Art of Japanese Paper folding
3:00PM – 4:00PM
SHODO
Japanese Calligraphy