OUTDOOR PEACE PLAZA STAGE

• 12:00PM-12:15PM Asian Improv Midwest & Genryu Arts
• 12:15PM-12:30PM Soke Fujima Ryu Fujima Kansuma Dance Ensemble of Los Angeles
• 12:35PM-1:05PM Suio Ryu Lai Kenpo group and Gen Ensemble
• 1:10PM-1:40PM Tamagusuku Ryu Senju Kai Frances Nakachi Ryubu Dojo-Hawaii
• 1:45PM-2:20PM Tsukasa Taiko
• 2:30PM-2:45PM Soke Fujima Ryu Fujima Kansuma Dance Ensemble of Los Angeles
• 2:50PM-3:20PM Gen Taiko
• 3:20PM-3:50PM Diaspora Escapade: Suio Ryu Lai Kenpo, Asian Improv aRts, Asian Improv aRts Midwest, GenRyu Arts, and poet Mia Malhotra
• 3:50PM-4:30PM Gintenkai National Project

JAPAN CENTER EAST MALL STAGE

• 12:00PM-12:15PM Washi Ningyo with Rochelle Lum
• 12:15PM-1:15PM SF Koto Group Hanaikada
• 1:20PM-1:40PM Shodo Demonstration – Rev. Kawahatsu Sensei
• 2:00PM-2:20PM Mataro Doll Demonstration – SF East Mataro Miyabikai Merry Nishimura
• 2:25PM-2:40PM Washi Ningyo with Rochelle Lum
• 2:45PM-3:15PM Sanjuro Toyoaki Shamisen
• 3:15PM-4:00PM Tamagusuku Ryu Senju Kai Frances Nakachi Ryubu Dojo – Hawaii

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Sunday, June 23, 2019, 2:00PM-2:45PM
Union Bank Community Room, East Japan Center Mall
22 Peace Plaza, San Francisco, CA

The workshop will focus on dance movement as a means of articulating language and story.  We will learn two short dances that are commonly used for folk dance.

FREE event – tickets required

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Sunday, June 23, 2019, 2:00PM-2:45PM
Union Bank Community Room, East Japan Center Mall
22 Peace Plaza, San Francisco, CA

Presentation by Master Artist Tatsu Aoki

Hear from a professional Okiya style shamisen artist, and learn how this music was presented in the 60’s and the unique development of this art form.

Tatsu Aoki was born in Tokyo, Japan (in 1957), into an artisan family clan called TOYOAKIMOTO, a lineage that was defined by its profession and business as okiya. Okiya houses were training and booking agents for geisha, whose proficiency in the arts of traditional music, dance, and conversation were in high demand in the designated entertainment area in downtown Tokyo. While the economy and changed social environment forced many okiya to close down in the 1960’s, Aoki was fortunate to receive, from the age of four, the important training essential to traditional Tokyo geisha culture, and became a part of the family performing crew.  Master Aoki is also a professional Jazz Musician and Film Maker and has integrated his training of the traditional arts into these more contemporary genres.

FREE event – tickets required

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Presented by GenRyu Arts