3月‐ アトランタ総領事館よりアメリカ南部情報！Japan Currents Vol 113 – March 2019

Mar 1
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Vol 113 March 2019

各地でお雛様祭りや桜まつりが開催されるようです。お見逃しのない様に！

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JAASC/JASNC Business Speaker Series (Charlotte, NC)

３/１ SC/NC 日米協会主催ビジネス講演会のおしらせ-

March 1, 2019 3:30 – 6:30 pm
Quail Hollow Country Club
3700 Gleneagles Road,
Charlotte, NC 28210
Japan-America Association of South Carolina and Japan-America Society of North Carolina co-host Business Speaker Series in Charlotte, NC.  This Business Speaker Series is sponsored by Keizai Koho Center (Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs).
Refreshments and Snacks will be provided.
Registration
$10 for JAASC/JASNC Members
$20 for Non-Members
Advance Registration is required.
Seating is limited. Please Register Early.
Speakers:
  • Mr. Daichi Arima, President/CEO of Asahi Kasei America, Inc., and Lead Executive Officer of Asahi Kasei Corporation
  • Mr. John Moyer,  Chairman/CEO of Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc., and Lead Executive Officer of Asahi Kasei Corporation
  • Mr. Ira Shapiro, Senior Advisor, ASG’s East Asia & Pacific Practice

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Kimono and Japanese Tea Experience (West Columbia, SC)

March 2, 2019 1:00 pm
Market Tea Room and Country Store
322 Little Brooke Ln
West Columbia, SC 29172
The Market Tea Room is excited to host the Carolina Kimono Club for this special event. We will be exploring the tradition of kimono and Japanese teas. There will be a limited number of seats available to participate in the tea service, but everyone is welcome to come watch and learn! Tickets are only $15 in advance!
 
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AnniCon 2019 (Anniston, AL)
 
March 2, 2019
Anniston City Meeting Center
1615 Noble St
Anniston, AL 36201
AnniCon is a FREE, one-day celebration of Asian culture including art, music, costuming, manga, anime, gaming, food, history, and special guests.
 
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AgamaCon (Aiken, SC)
 
March 2-3, 2019
H.O. Weeks Activities Center
1700 Whiskey Rd
Aiken, SC 29803
AgamaCon is the biggest pop-culture convention in the CSRA! We have something for all ages, and bring more fun activities and excitement every year! This will be AgamaCon’s 4th year and it will be held once again in beautiful Aiken, SC at Odell Weeks Activity Center. There is plenty of outdoor space for amazing photo shoots, and lots of tables indoors for all of your gaming needs! As a multi-genre convention, we welcome all fandoms and interests from D&D to Rick & Morty. Cosplay is always encouraged and we welcome you to bring your games to showcase and share with others. Hope to see you there!
 
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Hinamatsuri at the Gardens (Birmingham, AL)
 
お雛祭り＠ バーミンガム ボタニカルガーデン，アラバマ
 
March 3, 2019 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
2612 Lane Park Rd 
Birmingham, Alabama 35223
Join us for a special Girl’s Day celebration at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens! Take pictures with our doll displays, eat traditional Japanese snacks, and tour the Japanese gardens for a full day of celebration.
Hinamatsuri is a special Japanese holiday held on the third day of the third month each year dedicated to young girls. Until they are about ten years old, young girls will enjoy a display of ornamental dolls known as hinaningyou, set up on a red tiered display known as a hinadan. Young girls celebrate by having parties with their friends, eating special snacks like ichigodaifuku (strawberries and red bean paste inside mochi rice cake) and hina-arare (special sweet rice crackers). 
 
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Triad Anime Con (Winston-Salem, NC)
 
March 15-17, 2019
Embassy Suites Hotel & Benton Convention Center
460 N Cherry St
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Triad Anime Con 2019 will move back to Winston-Salem and into the newly remodeled Benton Convention Center March 15-17, 2019!
 
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2019 Cherry Blossom Festival (Birmingham, AL)
 
 
March 16, 2019 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
2612 Lane Park Rd 
Birmingham, Alabama 35223
Join us for our 2019 Sakura Matsuri at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens!
Parking will be available at the Birmingham Zoo as well as the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, but as was the case in previous years it will be limited. We encourage you to carpool!
 
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SC Kudo Renmei Invitation 7-day Seminar (Simpsonville, SC)
 
March 17-23, 2019
South Carolina Kyudo Renmei Inc.
33A Ray E Tally Court Suite 351
Simpsonville, SC 29680-6772 
 
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International Cherry Blossom Festival (Macon, GA)
 
 
March 22-31, 2019
Central City Park
115 Willie Smokie Glover Dr
Macon, GA 31201
Each March, Macon becomes a pink, cotton-spun paradise as over 350,000 Yoshino cherry trees bloom in all their glory. For 10 days, festival-lovers are treated to one of the most extravagant displays of springtime color in the nation as they visit the town referred to by Congressional Records as the Cherry Blossom Capital of the World.
 
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2019 Sakura/Cherry Blossom Festival (Tuscaloosa, AL)
 
March 23, 2019
Tuscaloosa River Market
1900 Jack Warner Pkwy 
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
In traditional Japanese thought, the time of ohanami, or viewing of the cherry blossoms, reminds one of the paradoxically fleeting yet enduring nature of life, which is symbolized in the single moment when a cherry blossom petal detaches itself to float earthward.  In contemporary Japan, friends joyfully gather whenever the cherry trees, called sakura, blossom.
Ohanami is delightful on the UA campus at the corner of University Boulevard and Stadium Drive.  Takemine Mochizuki of Narashino City donated the cherry trees at Shelton State Community College, as well as those in the Narashino Grove of Lurleen Wallace Boulevard.  Also, you can view the lovely cherry blossoms at the UA Arboretum, the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, and from Interstate 20/59 just east of Skyland Boulevard.
Each year, the CIC, along with the sponsors and participants, holds a Sakura Festival in early spring. 
 
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Tickled Pink 2019 Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival (Conyers, GA)
 
March 23-24, 2019 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Georgia International Horse Park
1996 Centennial Olympic Parkway
Conyers, GA 30013
We are Tickled Pink to invite you to our Spring Celebration, the Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival! Shop among hundreds of unique art and craft exhibitors, eat your way through the multiple food courts, enjoy cultural performances, listen to live music, and play in the children’s area.
The Cherry Blossom Festival originated as a way to encourage cultural understanding and friendship through international music, dance, games, food and crafts. The cherry blossom is a symbol of short-lived beauty in Japan, and the City of Conyers embraces this tradition as well. The blooming of the cherry trees offers a time to reflect upon our lives. Like the blooming of the trees, life is short, so you have to appreciate and embrace it.
The Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival has received many awards over the years for Best Event in the Southeast by the Southeast Festival and Events Association. It has also been selected over the years as a Top 20 Event in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society. 
 
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Atlanta Gladiator Japanese Appreciation Game (Atlanta, GA)
 
 
March 24, 2019 3:05 pm
Infinite Energy Arena
6400 Sugarloaf Parkway
Duluth GA 30097
Join the Atlanta Gladiators on March 24th as they take on the Greenville Swamp Rabbits in a South Division Rivalry Game! Come Enjoy Japanese American Appreciation Day events including a live performance by Japanese drummers during the intermissions. With a match up like this, yuo won’t want to miss gameday!
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2QR7QdK
The Atlanta Gladiators will donate proceeds from ticket sales to The International Charter School of Georgia.
 
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Brookhaven Cherry Blossom Festival (Brookhaven, GA)
 
 
March 30-31, 2019 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Blackburn Park
3493 Ashford Dunwoody Road
Brookhaven, GA 30319
What do you get when you mix incredible live entertainment, a whimsical artist market featuring 100 regional artisans, a Kidz Zone loaded with fun, the popular “Pet World,” a Classic Car Show, a delicious food court and a Peachtree Road Race qualifier to kick the whole thing off – all set in a beautiful park? The Brookhaven Cherry Blossom Festival, which ushers in the springtime on March 30 and 31 from 10 am to 6 pm Blackburn Park, a true landmark of the hopping City of Brookhaven – just 15 minutes north of downtown Atlanta
The 5th annual Brookhaven Cherry Blossom Festival will be bigger and better than ever! The artist market will wind through the beautiful park with something for everyone this year, and shoppers will get to see incredible handmade items featuring jewelry, pottery, paintings, yard art, mixed media, photography, folk art and so much more!
Find more information about this year’s festival at www.brookcherryfest.org/festival. You can also follow us Twitter and stay tuned to #BrookhavenCherryFest for the latest festival updates.
 
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Savannah Animazing Con (Savannah, GA)
 
March 30-31, 2019
Savannah National Guard Armory
1248 Eisenhower Dr
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah Animazing Con Is a 2-day convention held annually at the National Guard Armory Sports Complex in Savannah, GA! Savannah Animazing Con prides itself on offering fan events for all-ages celebrating the arts and culture of Japanese anime (animation), manga (comics), and cosplay (costume-play)
Savannah Animazing Con has three goals in hosting its events:
  • Provide a venue for fans of Animation and Manga to come together in a festive environment.
  • Educate people about the history and culture surrounding anime and manga, by hosting guests from the industry.
  • Learn about Japanese culture through animation and comics.
We’re a non-profit organization meaning every dollar spent by fans such as yourself goes into making future events bigger, and better than ever!
Animazing Con was first organized in 2017, and will be held for its first year in 2019 at the National Guard Armory Sports Complex in Savannah GA!
 
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Screening: “Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice”, Yasujiro Ozu (Durham, NC)
 
April 1, 2019 7:00 pm 
Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theatre
2020 Campus Drive
Durham, NC 27705
Film Screening:
“Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice”
(Yasujirô Ozu, 1952, 116 min, Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, B&W, DCP)
One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, “Flavor of Green Tea over Rice” is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship between a childless, middle-aged couple as her city-bred sophistication bumps up against his small-town simplicity, and a generational sea change-in the form of their headstrong, thoroughly modern niece-sweeps into their household. The director’s abiding concern with the intricacies of family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, enlivened by a wry, tender humor and buoyant expansiveness that moves the action from the home into the baseball stadiums, pachinko parlors, and ramen shops of postwar Tokyo.
“Yasujiro Ozu’s delicate melodramas… avoid any sense of cliché in their restrained, sometimes painfully subtle study of family relationships.” David Kehr, Chicago Reader
“Exquisite… very funny and very moving.” – Geoff Andrew, Time Out (London)
 
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Irmo Cherry Blossom Festival (Irmo, SC)
 
 
April 1-14, 2019
1249 Lexington Ave
Irmo, South Carolina 29063
The Irmo Cherry Blossom Festival seeks to enhance the lives of our citizens through the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of nature.
 
 
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The Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta is an overseas establisment of the Government of Japan. The main function of our office is to protect Japanese nationals and economic interests, provide consular services and cultural exchange. There are 18 Japanese diplomatic missions in the United States. The jurisdiction of our office in Atlanta is Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
 
Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta
Phipps Tower, Suite 850
3438 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, GA 30326
Email: info@aa.mofa.go.jp
Phone: 404-240-4300
Fax: 404-240-4311
Web: http://www.atlanta.us.emb-japan.go.jp
 
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