Junko Tahara Biwa Ensemble
Don't miss this free event at Smith Memorial Hall!
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February 27, 2007
February 21, 2007
tulips and fog
Although outside Japan House there was a freezing fog that left outlines of frost on every leaf this morning, inside Japan House the buckets of flowers awaiting Ikebana class assure us that spring will come...
February 20, 2007
February 06, 2007
monthly meeting
Don't forget that tomorrow, on Wednesday, January 7, 2007 we will have our monthly Volunteer Cultural Enrichment Group meeting. The topic is 'survival Japanese!'
February 02, 2007
February 01, 2007
Aging in Japan
A couple of programs coming up in the next week are definitely worth noting. On February 8 and 9, 2007 the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Unit for Cinema Studies will sponsor a two-part event on Aging in Japan. These events are free and open to the public.
The film Home Sweet Home (2001) will be screened on Thursday, February 8 at 7:30 in 101 Armory (505 E. Armory Avenue, Champaign, Illinois). The film deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the elderly. When, racked by guilt, they return to retrieve him, they discover to their surprise. . . . .
The director, Tomio KURIYAMA, will be present after the film to answer questions.
Also, Professor Susan Orpett Long, author of the award-winning Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life, will use Home Sweet Home as her point of departure for a lecture on the problems of aging in Japan. The lecture will take place on Friday, February 9, 2007 at noon in the Spurlock Museum auditorium.
