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Soseki International Essay Contest Winners
Kensaku Shinohara + Gabrielle Revlock
Asian Pop-Up Cinema
Workshop on U.S.-Japan Relations
National Performance Network Annual Meeting
JFNY News & Events
Soseki Essay Contest
monster
Asian Pop-Up Cinema
Workshop on US-Japan
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December 2016 Issue 
NEWS
Soseki International Essay Contest Winners

We would like to congratulate the winners of the Soseki International Essay Contest. The top award was given to Ms. Stephanie Erica Chaves - a Toronto native who is currently participating in the JET Programme as an Assistant Language Teacher in Matsuyama, Ehime. Second place was awarded to Ms. Chelsea Bernard, a translator and interpreter in New York, and Ms. He Jie, a graduate student in Beijing. The essay contest took place on the 100th anniversary of the death of Natsume Soseki and received over 70 entries. The contest was co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation, The Asahi Shimbun Co. Iwanami Shoten Publishers, and Ferris University.
EVENTS
Performance
monster
December 3 & 4, 12:30pm & 3pm
Queens Museum (Queens, NY)

© Kelly Strayhorn Theater
The dancer and choreographer Kensaku Shinohara will present monster, along with Gabrielle Revlock's Fish Tank at the Queens Museum. monster is a 17-minute dance to Crazy Wisdom by Viera Janárčeková, a Slovakian contemporary experimental composer. This event is supported under the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.
Film
Asian Pop-Up Cinema
December 4, 4pm
Wilmette Theatre (Wilmette, IL)

© NIKKATSU Corp. 
Asian Pop-Up Cinema presents Round Trip Heart as its closing night film. This romantic comedy follows a woman who sells food and drinks on a train push cart and ends up touring a mountain resort with a failed movie producer who tried to steal from her cart. Director Yuki Tanada will be in attendance for an introduction and Q&A. The screening will be followed by the closing night reception. This event is supported under the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.
Lecture & Conference
Workshop on U.S.-Japan Relations
December 7, 4 - 6pm
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
This lecture by former U.S. Ambassador Rust Deming is part of Johns Hopkins University's East Asian Studies Program Fall 2016 Speaker Series. The lecture is partially supported under the Institutional Project Support (IPS) Grant Program.
 
December 1 - 5
Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol (Austin, TX)

The National Performance Network (NPN) Annual Meeting is a network-wide gathering designed to provoke discussion and exchange. This meeting is an opportunity for participants to  come together to articulate issues, debate alternatives and develop policies that shape the local and national presenting context in the performing and the visual arts. One specific aim is to develop the capacity of a younger generation interested in engaging with their communities and reflecting the role of the arts in today's society and ways of addressing the profound effects caused by natural disasters through a collaborative partnership between Japan and U.S. curators. The international meeting of this event is under the support of CGP.
 
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