bellevue college we attend the fourteenth annual two thousand and eleven banners here obviously going to college there this is a lot of the food court area almost where we started last year and  the organizer tom what's your last name again brooke we are ok to eat and what is your title here i'm the president of the east i need a home much association that's the nonprofit organization that presents akim lottery occupancy means fall festival into japanese cultural events and this is its fourteenth year this is fourteen we started in nineteen eighty eight and has always been on the college campus here no it hasn't the first two years is that then this will be the twelfth one at you know you college ok so this seems to be kind of it's home now this is home and it keeps getting bigger and some people say better of course that means harder work it hopefully you have a team of folks that help you out we have so many actually there's approximately three hundred volunteers that participate making if you want to it's success and i know there's about four or five different buildings you guys take over your age we started nineteen eighty eight and one hundred ninety here we started let me start again in the year two thousand he started here at bellevue college which was then the community college and we only use the gymnasium today we use the gymnasium parts of the our building part to the l building parts of the c building parts of the d building part the building and all the adjoining courtyard it's just grown and grown and grown and i know that for the most part it's free but there are some page seminars or something to write you know we do a for example where the puget sound bonsai association presents the workshop and in the workshop you learn about the tree that you are given and you get to take that tree home with you so you get to actually started right and then you build the network with a good sound bones life situation so you can continue to do that other workshops the case through twelve japan culture and a classroom workshop is given by the east asia resource center university of washington and all the teachers here in the community get block hours for attending that has become a real annual event we have a a series of hiking in japan traveling into town and japanese garden freeze and patients that are free that's like a lot of coverage here because i look at a map and it covers a lot of area so i look like i've got some hiking around to do to check out all these events this year too we have the great grandfathers drama a documentary film made in hawaii and it talks about people who made the great grandfathers from documentary and some other groups like pushing the pendulum cause we're doing a fundraising effort this weekend by showing the film and selling the deal d v d show is tomorrow sunday about twenty five models and it's a choreographed event it's really going to be special and also for me to focus on the big island of southwestern  event has only been open for about five hours another it has been sold out the  already i hope i got that right what is it what exactly is  it's like they're about to run out to what is it you just poured it on there real quick but it is sort of grilled chicken we're going to have someone to talk to  know i have rich with me rich what do you do exactly for the washington boys and water gardening society i'm a volunteer with the society and one of my specific tasks for the show is benching so i go through before the show and we look at every fish and measure it and decide what category it is so we do get all the paperwork straight for the judges to be able to go through and efficiently judge the fish they're judged light more or net i can get her turned around here for you this is called a song k it's a white fish with red and black markings it has some shiny sail scales on it but we're not in account that  this is was the grand champion at this year's show it's a very high quality fish fish like that is worth thousands of dollars when you're breeding fish koyo these fish like that female can throw a quarter of a million eggs and when the breeders actually go through and sort through them it's babies they keep less than one percent of the babies and so i say it's just that genetics of cool way have not stabilized over the years they've been breeding coiffed for color for only a couple hundred years and so the genetics are stabilized and they'll throw a lot of babies and especially when they're very young that young fish will actually eat their bare brothers and sisters and when they're breeding for color the stronger fish are not what you want to keep because they're eating all the good stuff so they actually end up making fish food out of a lot of the babies but that's one of the reasons they become so expensive is because the slow process of actually selecting the fish in japan is done by hand they sit there with a little bowl in a little tiny screen and they sort through the babies to  pick the best ones out to grow on and then as they keep getting larger and larger they keep sorting them down and so they can come up with the best become actual show fish and there's a difference between pond fish to us the fish are our pets originally they started off as a food source but they are now not necessarily a food service source in japan or america so these are bred as our pets are normal fish that's just in a pond that you have in your backyard in a shallow on you can buy those fish for less than twenty dollars when you start collecting fish then it becomes a whole the first ball game and you're actually selecting the fish for tower and bringing the quality  and the quality of the body of the fish so there's a difference between these fish and then also the the wiser q might buy at the store if you bought one  shops you'd pay probably considerably less and it would be one of the colors that would be if the breeder was gone through a sorted out all the small fish you've gotten rid of so many babies the old ones they keep growing up to the next size they keep calling them as they grow and those are probably what we would consider cold for the show category but they make perfectly great  though but they're still you know they're fun fish in their hobby fish but like this one i don't know if your camera will pick it up but it's not a great show fish but it's just fun then look at that little chart on the head and that's natural no one did that that's actually a perfect heart shaped pattern that's on the head and that just came natural dow some of these are flown in and shipped from other places most of our show fish are actually brought in from japan and the dealers they import them force they fly him over but once you're in have them inside the u s you can't take them back to japan for sure but what you do do is we'll go around the united states i've attended shows in chicago and san diego and around the country and blow folks  you just love data last are from utah and they brought in to fish from utah because they don't have a toy show down there to show their fish in a still wanted to enjoy the hobby and showing the fish in the was the bring it over here do they usually have the person that lives over here that maintains them or how that works i'm not quite sure i follow your shipped over from japan yes because they were bred in japan ok so they can't go back over to compare japan no there's a huge thing here in our in our show area there's clear plastic  covering speech when the tank needs are called splash guards this is for our biohazards each one of these tanks has a separate owner's fish and so we don't want to mix the water because we don't we're very risky of the contamination and if a fish had a disease we don't want to chance it you know here at the show there are going to be very healthy fish but we don't want to risk the possibility of any from one fish to another so we keep them in separate tanks no these tanks that were perusing all belong to the same owners of that's the reason there's no barrier between ok because there are sometimes very are sideways as well not sure it's the biggest one been crossed with double goldfish so they have the goldfish been age but they have the body shape and coloring of a coil but they also have the chin barbel which a normal  if i recall right i don't remember my japanese well but i think that's flowery if she keep being a flowery or shiny fish and they were started in japan a couple hundred years ago they used to keep the fish as a food fish out in the rice paddies and every year that during the winter when it was over they'd when they train their rice paddies they would bring the fish in and keep them  in barrels inside their homes and over the years somebody finally noticed one had some color around well then they found somebody the guy who had one with some color and they started breeding it and eventually led to some color carts that they actually gave the emperors a present and then they have through the years develop into a specific breed just like you have a siamese cat or annual i've been lucky enough to be at all twenty shows we started off very small as a very small organization and grown up over the years there's been years that we've had two hundred or almost three hundred fish and shows this particular show we're down a little do one hundred fifty but i think we're still you know we're tracking people from utah and all over the state of washington so i think we're still doing quite good this is the fourteenth annual festival here at bellevue community college and one of the reasons we've gotten to share with these people is we're both appreciate the japanese culture and people ok and one of the things that i know is that a lot of people don't really want to think about senior housing but but there's a there's a lot of people ok and how do you like living at the house or i' at the bottom of the screen right  see if your words as such are a very clearly and not screwed up sometimes as i have done but then it wouldn't be a real life episode of my program without that listening to something maybe she stated i don't know ok you can learn more  another of the table books is japanese t v couple of the guys who are actually in charge of this and i guess they have so so if people want to learn more in the seattle area on a ball now it's available on cable and  somebody signing up to take a look around a little bit more and they also have housing and aging you know a lot of concerns there and i keep telling your relation is getting older to be some entertainment take up here getting set up form over this way over to the left and the right is that correct yes yes our shrine is located near granite falls washington it's about an hour's drive from here we have a twenty six carried by how many people see the bars there that can be carried many minimum of people participated probably about seventy or eighty people were actually carrying four people can carry it safely but for festival use may be old more than two if you are using but only so many people can carry at one time everybody is trying to put their hands on it like how heavy is quite heavy and it's made out of a hard all right well thank you very much your t learn more about the sixteenth annual two thousand and thirteen syria occurring september seventh and eight in money dot org please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash no slash twenty six five five eight slash list shows my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you a link and as always thank you for watching events or t v cultural festivals