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| Facetnate! People to People, Place to Place: Australia Japan - A Match Box Project |
The Japan Foundation, Sydney has planned a busy event calendar for 2008, shining the spotlight on emerging Australian artists through an exciting collaborative art project. The New Visual Artists Project will uncover emerging visual artists based in Australia, whose work contains a strong element of Japanese influence.
Further information about the project can be found on our website: www.jpf.org.au. |
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| Volume 2: Call for Papers |
 New Voices is an academic journal published biennially in print and online by The Japan Foundation, Sydney.
The journal's primary aim is to support young Japanese Studies scholars by providing a platform for the promotion of outstanding research and writing by students and early career researchers.
Volume 2, edited by Dr Matthew Stavros of the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney, will be published in December 2008. We are currently soliciting original papers from recent Honours graduates, who completed their Honours thesis at an Australian university between January 2005 and December 2007. Submissions must be between 5,000 and 8,000 words long, and must be received by 31 July 2008.
Anyone interested in contributing to volume 2 of New Voices should obtain an information package from the New Voices website: www.jpf.org.au/newvoices .
Enquiries should be directed to the Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange Department on (02) 8239 0055, or email newvoices@jpf.org.au . |
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| Japanese Cinema |
Upcoming film screenings at The Japan Foundation, Sydney:
5 March: Osaka Story (1999, M)
19 March: The Games Teachers Play (1992, PG)
2 April: The Pale Hand (1990, PG)
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Chika: A Documentary Performance
by Mayu Kanamori |
 This is the story of Chika Honda, a real person. She is a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian gaols for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit. She was one of a Japanese tour group who were arrested for importing heroin in 1992.
Chika is a multi-layered, contemporary storytelling - incorporating original live music, dance and narration, documentary images, archival video and recorded interviews.
In association with ABC Radio National.
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8.00 pm, 5 - 8 March |
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Performance Space at Carriageworks
245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh
Tel. (02) 8571 9111
www.performancespace.com.au |
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All Moshtix outlets
www.moshtix.com.au or call 1300 438 849. |
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** Booking fees apply. |
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| East Wind |
 Visitors to the Japan Foundation Gallery in October may already be familiar with Mitsuo Shoji and his beautiful ceramic ware. For seven weeks from Easter until early May, Cudgegong Gallery in Gulgong will host an exhibition to be curated by Mr Shoji.
East Wind will feature the works of six artists from South-East Asia: Ken Yonetani and Takeaki Totsuka (Japan), Won Seak Kin and Kwirak Choung (Korea), and Anna Choi and Yi Hui Wang (China). |
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21 March - 5 May
Official opening 11.00am -1.00pm, 22 March |
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Cudgegong Gallery
102 Herbert Street, Gulgong NSW 2852
Tel. (02) 6374 1630
www.cudgegonggallery.com.au |
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| JAL Scholarship Program 2008 |
 Applications are now open for the 35th JAL Scholarship Program. This year’s theme is The world in 20 years – Problems and Solutions.
Applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students over 20 years old, currently studying at university, must be Australian citizens, and must not have lived in Japan for more than six months.
Entries, to be submitted in the form of an essay not exceeding 800 words in English, close at 5.00 pm on Friday 4 April.
Full details: http://www.au.jal.com/en/others/scholarship08/ |
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| Library Calendar |
The Library’s opening days for March - April are as follows: |
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Opening hours:
Mon-Fri (except Wed): 11.00 am - 5.30 pm
Wed: 11.00 am - 6.00 pm
Sat (every third week): 11.00 am - 4.00 pm
There is a book returns chute at the library entrance. It is available during the Chifley Plaza building operation hours:
Mon-Fri: 6.30 am - 10.00 pm
Sat : 8.30 am - 10.00 pm
Sun/Public Holidays: Closed |
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| Next Omusubi |
The next print issue of Omusubi (Autumn 2008) will be published in early April. |
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ISSUE 3
March 2008 |
In this issue:
- Facetnate!
- New Voices
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Japanese Cinema
- CHIKA
- East Wind
- JAL Scholarship
- Library News |
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Japan Foundation, Sydney |
Shop 23, Level 1
Chifley Plaza
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Language Dept. |
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8239 0077 |
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9222 2169 |
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| Library |
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