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Okinawan Shamisen Workshop

Sponsored by:
Japanese and J Club
Come and join the Japanese Club and Japanese Dept. for a collaborative event teaching Okinawan music and dance with Sonny Ochiai, a famous performer from New York City! We will be playing the shamisen, then learning traditional Japanese dance. No knowledge of Japanese is necessary!

Adirondack Coltrane Lounge

Japanese Film Series

Sponsored by:
Japanese
“Akanezora” (Beyond the Crimson Sky) is based on Yamamoto Ichikiri’s award-winning novel. Set in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in the mid-18th century, the film tells the story of a couple whose successful tofu shop is threatened by family problems . Sponsored by the 13th Japan Foundation Film Series and the Japanese Studies Department Free and open to the public.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Japanese Film Series

Sponsored by:
Japanese
“Silver Spoon” portrays the struggles of an urban Japanese high school student who enrolls in an agricultural high school in Hokkaido. The film won the 2015 Yokohama Film Festival award for best screen play. Sponsored by the 13th Japan Foundation Film Series and the Japanese Studies Department Free and open to the public.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Beyond Racial Solidarity: Asian Organizing in the Context of the Rise of the Reactionary Right

Sponsored by:
Middlebury College Activities Board, Japanese, and Womxn of Color (WOC)
Come attend “Beyond Racial Solidarity: Asian Organizing in the Context of the Rise of the Reactionary Right,” a lecture by Helena Wong and Adrian Leong ‘16.5!

While there has been a well-documented increase of the reactionary right, there has also been an increasing presence of reactionary forces within Asian communities in the US. How are they connected? How do they differ? And what are the ways that Asian communities continue to align themselves in struggles for racial and social justice?

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103