Tokyo Nights
Life In Tokyo - Neil Stalnaker
Wednesday, June 17, 2009


BRAZILIAN JAZZ
Gustavo Anacleto: sax
Kiichiro Komobuchi: bass

Live time:
1st stage: 17:00 ~ 17:45
2nd stage: 18:00 ~ 18:45

free entrance

3-23-20 Yakumo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo.
Tel: 03-5731-7023
http://www.timeandstyle.com

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009



KRAZY!
The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games


FINAL WEEK!
Closes on Sunday, June 14, 2009


Installation view of KRAZY! The Delirious World of Manga + Anime + Video Games. Foreground: Manga Pod designed by Atelier Bow-Wow; background from left to right: Afro Samurai by Takashi Okazaki, figures and DVD, Sakuran by Moyoco Anno, final page prints. Photo: Richard P. Goodbody.

KRAZY! is New York’s first exhibition dedicated to anime, manga, and video games. Designed to evoke Tokyo’s clamorous cityscape, the installation features artwork by eight leading manga artists, twelve simultaneous anime projections, a sound room, a manga zone with hundreds of comic books, and video game consoles for visitors to play. Full-length anime features will be screened in the auditorium on Friday, June 12 from 3:30pm, and whole day on Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14.

Watch CBS feature on KRAZY!
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5025431n

For more information, please visit
http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=6ee001d9

For other upcoming Gallery exhibitions, please visit
http://www.japansociety.org/upcoming

Gallery Hours
Tuesday through Thursday 11 am - 6 pm
Friday 11 am - 9 pm
Saturday & Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Closed Mondays & major holidays

Admission
$10; students & seniors $8; Japan Society members and children under 16 free. Admission is free to all on Friday nights, 6-9 PM.

Docent-led walk-in tours are conducted Tuesday-Sunday at 12:30 PM with additional tours on Saturday & Sunday at 2 PM. Japanese language tours are conducted Friday nights at 6 pm by appointment only. Tours are free with admission and approximately one hour in duration.

Group tours can be arranged by calling (212) 715-1224.

RELATED EVENTS:

Konnichiwa Friends Family Tours of KRAZY!
Saturday, June 13, 2 PM — 3 PM

Gallery Lessons
Tuesday-Friday, through June 14, 11 AM — 12 PM & by appointment

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Saturday, June 06, 2009
SALSA WITHOUT BORDERS at CAFÉ y LIBROS

SALSA WITHOUT BORDERS at CAFÉ y LIBROS

ARTISTS WITHOUT BORDERS` fundraising event is back

with Japanese dancers NAO & MASA!

A salsa lesson and performance

DJ: GABO (Colombia)

Saturday JUNE 27th

Time: 6:30 pm ~ 11:00 pm

Reserved: 2,500 yen (until June 26th)

Door: Yen 3,000

Tickets include: a drink, an empanada, a salsa lesson (7:007:30 pm), a performance and all-you-can-dance!

All proceeds support the humanitarian cause of ARTISTS WITHOUT BORDERS (http://www.artwit.org). ARTISTS WITHOUT BORDERS has carried out missions in Kosovo, East Timor, Chechnya, Abkhazia, Georgia, ex-Yugoslavia, New York and Afghanistan.

Reservations: info@cafeylibros.com

CAFÉ y LIBROS
Tokyo 141-0021 Shinagawa-ku Kami-Osaki 2-20-4
Tel: 03-6228-0234
Fax: 03-3491-4460

www.cafeylibros.com

SALSA WITHOUT BORDERS at CAFÉ y LIBROS

627()に行う「国境なきアーティストたち」のファンドレーシング・イベントを紹介させていただきます。

 どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

エクトル シエラ

「国境なきアーティストたち」ファンドレーシング・イベントが復活しました!

「国境なきサルサ!at カフェ・イ・リブロス

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DJ: GABO (コロンビア)

NAO & MASAによる

レッスンやパフォーマンス

午後: 18:30時~23:00
場所: CAFÉ y LIBROS 141-0021 東京都品川区上大崎2-20-4 1F
会費: 前売り2.500円(26日まで

当日3.000 レッスン (19:0019:30)+1ドリンク+エンパナダ


詳しくは: www.cafeylibros.com

地図: http://www.cafeylibros.com/web/jp/index.htm

ご予約: info@cafeylibros.com

お待ちしております

「国境なきアーティストたち」(http://www.artwit.org)はアーティストたちによる人道支援組織で、これまでに、コソボ、東ティモール、グルジア、アブハジア、チェチェン、ニューヨーク、アフガニスタン等で難民の子どもたちや戦争の被害を受けた子どもたちなどへ芸術を通じた心のケア活動を行ってきました。

CAFÉ y LIBROS
141-0021 東京都品川区上大崎2-20-4 1F
Tel: 03-6228-0234
Fax: 03-3491-4460

www.cafeylibros.com


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Monday, June 01, 2009
Kawagoe, Japan


Went to Kawagoe this morning around 6am to take some photos of "Little Edo" before people were out. Really calm and peaceful morning. Will have to do that again soon...

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Tokyo Professionals Business Networking Night

Monthly Networking Event - Personal and Professional
Event Info
Host:
Type:
Network:
Global
Time and Place
Date:
Monday, January 19, 2009
Time:
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location:
Worldstar Cafe, Roppongi
Street:
Goto Bldg 5-1-3 Roppongi
City/Town:
Tokyo, Japan

Contact Info
Email:

Description


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AfterParty Entertainment Group Presents
Tokyo Professionals

--Networking Event--

Monday January 19th 7:30 PM
1000Y
Worldstar Cafe, Roppongi
www.Afterparty.jp/Tokyo/worldstar.html

Tokyo Professionals

A business networking event to bring together the brightest minds in Tokyo.

Cash bar. Food Available.

Bring business cards and brochures for effective networking. Registration is only required for presenters.

Presenters can set up booth or table top displays.

Tokyo Professionals is an extraordinary networking opportunity for professionals living and working in and around the Tokyo Metropolitan area. More than 100 billion dollars in assets and commodities were sold just in Tokyo alone last year―this means there are always opportunities for you for expansion. However with today's credit crunch and financial crisis, we have to find news in becoming more customer friendly and business savvy.

What better way to meet potential clients, business colleagues and new friends than at an After Party hosted business networking night? Such events allow you to collaborate and share ideas and strategies to increase revenue in for your industry.

There is something for everyone when you join a Tokyo Professionals event. Whether you're trying to get learn about the market, looking to expand, or would like to increase your meet potential clients.

Who's Coming?
We have assembled the brightest minds and the most talented people in industries from media to banking; from entrepreneurs to big corporations.

For more information on please send inquiries to miwa@afterparty.jp

Check out Tokyo Professionals on the web: http://www.afterparty.jp/tokyo

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Really looking forward to this gig on Sunday. Always fun doing Horace Silver's music and especially with these musicians. I played recently with Shimazu Kennichi for the first time and it was a really comfortable vibe. He used to be the pianist for one of very favorite singers, Jimmy Scott. Tenor sax man Seiichi Nakamura and I played a swingin' gig on December 25th at the Azabu Public Concert Hall near Roppongi and we've also been playing Horace Silver's music together since September. Bassist Jeff Curry and I are both from West Virginia and have the same birthday, Feb. 6th. We've hooked up on dozens of gigs over the past few years. He's equally at home on electric or acoustic bass which gives lots of options on a gig. Ko Omura (drummer) and I have played together a few times in the past 2 years. This is the first time for Ko and I to do H. Silver's music together. I know Ko and Jeff gig together often and for them to play with Kennichi will be no problem. For me, it's so important to have the rhythm section feeling comfortable with each other.

This is the first gig at Kamome doing Horace Silver's music. I know that I will be back there on April 9 doing another program of Silver's music. So, for 1/11/09 I'm calling this gig vol. 1. April 9 will be vol.2 and hopefully we can continue to play that room and bring some fresh Horace Silver tunes each time.

Because of the holidays and everyone's busy schedules, rehearsal will be very limited for this gig. But, I think we're doing a lot of music that the musicians feel good about and will be enjoyable for the listener. For this gig we will most likely do these tunes:

Gregory Is Here
Peace
Summer In Central Park
Nutville
Room 608
Silver's Serenade
Senor Blues
and maybe I'll have some time this week to write an original that is "Silver-like".

Hope to see many folks at Kamome on Sunday 1/11/09.





今 度の日曜日のライブ、本当に楽しみにしてます。ホレス・シルヴァーの曲を演奏するのはいつも楽しいのですが、特に今回のメンバーでやるのが楽しみです。ピ アノの嶋津健一さんとはこの間初めてご一緒させて頂き、気楽な雰囲気でとてもやりやすかったです。彼は何と以前、僕が大好きなシンガーの一人、ジミー・ス コットのピアニストでした。テナーの中村誠一さんとは、先月25日、六本木の麻布区民ホールでのコンサートで共演させて頂いたり、去年の9月から一緒にホ レス・シルヴァーの曲を演奏してきました。ベースのジェフ・カリーさんとは、同じウェスト・ヴァージニアの出身であり、何と誕生日が二人とも2月6日でも あります。過去数年間で、たくさんの仕事を一緒にしてきた仲間です。彼は、エレキとアコースティック、どちらでもいけるので、一つのライブにたくさんの味 を提供してくれるのです。ドラムの大村亘さんとは、過去2年間に何度か一緒にプレイをしました。今回一緒にホレス・シルヴァーの曲を演奏するのは初めてで す。大村さんとジェフはもう何度も一緒にプレイしているので、今回ピアノの嶋津さんと一緒にやるのも何の問題もないと思います。僕にとっては、リズムセク ションが互いにやりやすい雰囲気であることが、何よりも大切なんです。

KAMOMEでホレス・シルヴァーの曲のライブをやるのは今回が初 めてです。すでに4月9日にホレス・シルヴァーの新しいセットでまたライブをやることになっています。ですので、今度の1月11日のライブをvol.1と し、4月9日がvol.2となります。その後もさらに同じ場所で毎回新しいホレス・シルヴァーの曲を提供し続けていけたらいいなと思っています。

年末年始で何かと忙しく、今回のライブでは限られたリハーサルしかできませんが、今回やる曲は我々みんながやり慣れて親しんでいる曲が多いですし、観客の皆様にも楽しんでいただけると思います。今回やると思われるのはだいたい次のような曲達です。

Gregory Is Here
Peace
Summer In Central Park
Nutville
Room 608
Silver's Serenade
Senor Blues
これに加えて、ひょっとしたら「シルヴァー調」のオリジナル曲を準備できるかもしれません。

それでは、1月11日日曜日、KAMOMEでたくさんの皆様にお会いできますよう。


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Tuesday, August 19, 2008


Had a great time tonight at BIZ Nite hosted my Jon Lynch, President of Global Vision Media K.K. They produce JUICE magazine [ http://wwwjuicemusic.com ]. Jon is a great guy with a lot of positive energy.

My favorite presentation was by David Chester [ http://www.davidchester.com/ ] (you can see David in one of the photos below). David is a composer, producer and pianist. However, tonight his topic was "What You Need to Know Before you Make Your First Film". It was so interesting to hear David go through all the steps of his first film production. He basically entered the world of film with very little knowledge and made just about every mistake you could possibly make. It really gave me motivation to try some new projects! It was nice to have time after the presentation to talk with David and ask him a few questions.

I met several other people from advertising agencies, software companies, dancers, photographers, and many others.
The next Biz Nite is on September 8 at Tableaux in Daikanyama.
http://www.biznites.ning.com
http://www.tableaux.jp
http://www.davidchester.com

今晩はGlobal Vision Media 社の社長であるJon Lynch 氏主催のBiZ Nite に参加し、有意義なひと時を過ごしました。この会社は雑誌「JUICE」[ http://wwwjuicemusic.com ]も発行しています。Jonはポジティブなパワーに満ちあふれた素晴らしい人です。

一番良かったプレゼンテーションは、David Chester氏(上の写真の中に写っています)によるものです。David は作曲家でありプロデューサーであり、ピアニストでもあります。ですが、今晩の彼のトピックは、「あなたが初めて映画を撮る際知っておかなくてはならない こと」でした。氏が初めて自分の映画をプロデュースした時に踏んだ全ての手順を聞くのは、とても興味深かった。彼は、ほとんど何も知らずに映画の世界に飛 び込み、そして犯しうる全ての失敗を犯した。何か新しいプロジェクトをやるのに、これほどのモチベーションがあるでしょうか!プレゼンテーションの後、 Davidと話をし、いくつか質問する機会に恵まれて良かった。

他にも、広告関係の方や、ソフトウェア会社の方、ダンサー、写真家などたくさんの方々と知り合うことができました。
次回のBiZ Niteは、9月8日、代官山のTableauxにて。
http://www.biznites.ning.com
http://www.tableaux.jp
http://www.davidchester.com


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