● -Sunday 7 August 60th Melbourne International Film Festival
www.miff.com.au
● Saturday 6 August Japan Disaster Relief Fund event organized by Yaizu & Hobart Sister Cities association
Venue: Salamanca, Hobart, Tasmania
● Saturday 6 August “Peace Day” Posters exhibition organized by Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Venue: State Library of Victoria
● Sunday 7 August Disaster Relief Fund Concert
Venue: St. Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins St. Melbourne
www.stmichaels.org.au
● Wednesday 10 August~Saturday 3 September Exhibition by Marcel Cousin
Venue: Helen Gory Galerie, 25 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran
www.helengory.com
Marcel Cousin was one of the Monbukagakusho Scholars, Research Category.
● Monday 15 August Tasmania Japanese Language Speech Contest(High School Senior div. & Open div.)
Ms Kim Rolands, the Speech Committee, Japanese Teachers Network, TAS
c/o. The Friends’ School Hobart (03) 6210-2266
● Thursday 18 -Friday 19 August The Asian Playwrights Meeting
Venue: the Arts Centre
www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/events
● Saturday 27 August “Under an Eastern Moon” by Satsuki Odamura(KOTO performer), other performers. Multicultural Arts Victoria and Melbourne Recital Centre
Bookings 9699 3333 or melbournerecital.com.au
●Friday 2-Saturday 17 September OzAsia Festival at Adelaide, South Australia
www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ozasia/
●Friday 2-Sunday 4 September “ Dreamscape a double bill” peformed by Kaiji Moriyama
●Friday 2 – Saturday 3 September “ Four Winds” performed by Shonosuke Okura.
●Friday 2-Saturday 17 September 2011 Nuido World Embroidery exhibition at OzAsia Festival
www.japaneseembroidery.com
●Tuesday 6~Saturday 17 September Japanese Film Festival at OzAsia Festival
15th.japanesefilmfestival.net/
●Friday 9 -Saturday 10 September Concert by Shugo Tokumaru
●Tuesday 13 September Concert by violinist Natsuko Yoshimoto and the team
●Friday 2 -Saturday 3 September 550th Anniversary Ikenobo Ikebana & 20th Anniversary Ikenobo Melbourne at NGV
www.ngv.vic.gov.au/
180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne (03) 8620-2222
Ikenobo Ikebana display
Date: Fri 2 – Sat 3 September
Venue: Great Hall, NGV
Time: 10am-5pm
Demonstration
By: The 45th Headmaster, Sen”Ei Ikenobo
Date: Saturday 3 September
Venue: Clemenger Auditorium, NGV
Time: 12.30pm door open
1.00pm demonstration
3.00pm closing
Cost: $25.00
Booking or further information:
Please contact Ikenobo Melbourne Chapter, Ms Yukkako Braun, y.braun@optusnet.com.au
●Sunday 4 September 42nd Japanese Language Speech Contest, Victorian Final
At ATC, Swinburne University of Technology
www.melbourne.au.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc/whatson.html
●Saturday 5 ~ Wednesday 9 September Melbourne Spring Fashion Week
http://thatsmelbourne.com.au/whatson/festivals/MSFWholding/Pages/msfw.aspx
●Sunday 11 September~ Sunday 2 October “Notes from the heart” by Junko Azukawa exhibition
Venue: Kazari collector, 450 Malvern Rd. Prahran
www.kazarigallery.com
●Monday 12 September Moon Lantern Festival at Adelaide, South Australia
www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ozasia/
●Friday 16 September Frankston Japanese Language Speech Contest
Frankston-Susono Friendship Association President Mr Peter Patterson
ptpatterson@optus.net.com.au
●Monday 19 September19 South Australia Japanese Language Speech Contest
Mr Grant Nielsen gnielsen@immanuel.sa.edu.au
●Monday 3 -Thursday October The 5th International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies at Melbourne
www.ifacca.org/announcements/2010/07/08/5th-world-summit-arts-and-culture-melbourne-austra/
●Tuesday 4 October Tasmania Japanese Language Speech Contest(Primary Junior div)
Ms Kim Rolands, the Speech Committee, Japanese Teachers Network, TAS
c/o. The Friends’ School Hobart (03) 6210-2266
●Thursday 6 -Sunday 22 October Melbourne International Arts Festival
http://www.melbournefestival.com.au/index.php
●Saturday 15 October Japanese Language Speech Contest, National Final
The Japan Foundation, Sydney
speechcontest.jpf-sydney.net/
●Sunday 23 October Mobara Festival at Sailsbury, South Australia
www.mawsonlakescommunity.com.au/EventViewBookingDetails.aspx?Bck=Y&EventID=1812
●mid of October Japanese Film Festival at Hobart, Tasmania
15th.japanesefilmfestival.net/
●Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 November 20th Anniversary of Chado Urasenke Tankokai Melbourne Association at NGV
Lecture by SEN Soshitsu XVI, Demonstration, etc.
Any further details: www.ngv.vic.gov.au
●Friday 11 – Wednesday 26 November Melbourne Music Week
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/enterprisemelbourne/industries/design/musicmelbourne/melbournemusicweek/Pages/MelbourneMusicWeek.aspx
●Tuesday 29 November ~ Tuesday 6 December 15th Japanese Film Festival
15th.japanesefilmfestival.net/
●Sunday 4 DecemberJapanese Proficiency Test
www.jpf.org.au/jlpt/contact.html