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Manhattan Cruise
Event with Yukata
New York Kyoto Club

Gospel singer

TiA

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TALKS at NY Entame

On Saturday, August 24th, NewYork Kyoto Club will be hosting anevent titled “ Love with Yukata!
Evening Manhattan Cruise in Yukata”
where an entire ship will be reserved torelax and enjoy the last days of summer. Starting from the Pier at East
River and 23rd Street, the ship will
cruise around Downtown Manhattan,Brooklyn, Governors Island and theStatue of Liberty. Meeting places will
be in front of the red stairs of Times
Square at 3 P.M, or at 5 P.M. at thePier. The cruise will be in Japanese:
however, non-Japanese speakers are
more than welcome to join. Althoughparticipants do not have to wear ayukata, New York Kyoto Club saysthat after the backlash of a celebrity’s“Kimono” titled brand, this is a great
opportunity to put a spotlight on
Japanese traditional fashion and culture. Register before the event and you
can get advance discount price.
For more information , contact
e-mail:nykyotoclub@gmail.com orvisit https://dpnewyork.com/
nykyotoclub/manhattancruise2019/.
(Ryoichi Miura/Translated by AiOmae)“Take your chance”
NY Entame, organized by theactor Masaya Okubo and the dancer
Shuri Maezawa, held the lecture on
20th from 7PM at the Global Labo.
The guest was the Gospel singer
TiA, currently touring in the UnitedStates. She has been featured on thefirst page of the New York Times,
chosen as a worldwide well-known
Japanese Top 6 among with thebaseball player Shohei Otani on themagazine “Courrier Japon.” She has
won lots of competitions with her
big voice and great technique.
In the lecture, she talked about
how she met the Gospel. She met
the Gospel when she was living inHarlem and she could get out fromsorrow for it and challenged to compete the McDonald’s Gospel Fest.
She also talked about how important
to be yourself and take a chance
which was featured on the first pageof the New York Times as well. She
always try to be thankful no matter
what happen to her.
In the end, Masaya Okubo asked
her “What’s your next ambition?”
She said “I want to release thealbum as a Gospel singer in theUnited States. To make that wish, Iknow I have to clear a lot of walls.
But if there is a tiny chance, even 1
percent, I want to try. ”
TiA just released the 15th anniversary album “Miracle” from SonyMusic on June 5th.
(Photo and article by Shintaro
Ueyama/Translated by Chikako Iwasaki)[English Edition］

Japan Cuts, Annual Film Festival
Japan Society, Opened With

Dance with Me and more
The annual Japanese film festival,“Japan Cuts” opened on July 19at theJapan Society and continued until July
28. 26 feature-length films and 16
shorts were screened with English subtitles. The festival opened before asold-out audience with “Dance withMe,” a musical comedy that was being
shown for the first time in the UnitedStates. A Q&A session followed
immediately after the film with thefilm director, Mr. Shinobu Yaguchi
and the star of the film, Ms. Ayaka
Miyoshi.
Ms. Miyoshi revealed that she
was hospitalized after two months ofrehearsals practicing singing and dancing, but that she recovered to completeshooting the film. She continued say-ing, “I had little in common with theheroine and faithfully followed thedirector's instructions.” “This film is
not meant to be social criticism but isa story about a top-earning contemporary young woman finding her own
true happiness,” explained Director
Yaguchi. So far, the film has had previews in Toronto and Shanghai.
“Watching the audience reactions
today from the last row in this auditorium, I am now confident that his film
will do well in Japan,” said Director
Yaguchi. The film will open in Japanin August.
After the movie, the audience
was invited to an opening night party
held on Japan Society's first floor,
with drinks, food, and karaoke. Mr.

Will Chao, who works for a film distribution company in New York, said,“The movie was cute and full of funnylines. I think it will be successful inthe U.S.” “The film was very funny
and I couldn’t stop laughing from thebeginning until the end” said Katie,
who works in public relations in New

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Sugimoto Bunraku
Sonezaki Shinju
will play in New York
Famed Japanese director Satoshi
Miyagi creates a new version ofAntigone that examines this ancient
play through the prism of Japanese culture, turning the stage into a flowing
river of water, known in many spiritualbeliefs to separate the world of the living from that of the dead. This freshtake presents a mesmerizing play aboutloss and memorialization in a way thatis both timeless and timely, mixing thefoundational principles of Greek

https://www.yomiuri-info.jp/daily_yomiuri/nys/tragedy, Japanese Noh theater,Indonesian shadow play, and Buddhist
philosophy to negotiate the boundariesof intercultural encounters while creating a new theatrical universe of globalized proportions.
This is a production of Shizuoka
Performing Arts Center (SPAC), adapted by Park Avenue Armory and presented in collaboration with The JapanFoundation. Antigone is part of Japan
2019, a series of events
Sugimoto Bunraku Sonezaki Shinju
October 19 - 22
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center'sFrederick P. Rose Hall (New York,NY)

York. “This is my very first time tocome to see the Japan Cuts, although I
have been to Asia Film Festival. I
will come to see Japan Cuts in thefuture.”
Photo: (Facing from the left toright) Kazu Watanabe, Japan Society
Deputy Director of Film, Master ofCeremony, Ms. Ayaka Miyoshi,Interpreter, Mr. Shinobu Yaguchi（ Article & Photo and translated byKinue Imai Weinstein)

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