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Event June 4, 2020

June Event Calender 2013

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Event March 12, 2020

Opening Night in Shepparton – the golden age of Japanese colour prints

Opening night – at last. It had been years since Kirsten Paisley’s visit to a Japanese sister city to see an internationally acclaimed exhibition of woodblock prints. An intervening national disaster – the 2011 earthquake – set its fate. It was headed for the Goulburn Valley, and on the way the curator from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston had even stayed in the cargo-hold with the pieces.

Event February 15, 2020

‘Stuffed with love’ and ‘Appropriate Vandalism’ : Kyoko Imazu’s print exhibitions, showing in Melbourne.

The animals in the prints are so beautiful and adorable that there is a need for a word other than ‘cute’. But that’s what they are – cute.

When I first saw Kyoko Imazu’s works I thought, ‘it can’t be helped that this artist chose such adorable animals to draw.’

Culture January 25, 2020

The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat: Lyrical Ceramics

Edward Lear’s famous poem provided the theme for a delightful sculpture by Japanese ceramic master, Shoko Mafune. She’d smile at the thought his playful rhyme might draw you closer to her artwork – that’s what she wants. Shoko uses her clay figures to reach out, as if pottery is her special language to engage with the world.

Event January 10, 2020

Showko @ The Variety Collective!

Come and laugh till your jaw drops!!

Culture January 7, 2020

KIZUNA Project 2012

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan offered the opportunity for Australian and New Zealand students to travel to Japan for 10 days, 9th December to 18th of December 2012, in order to experience Japan’s current situation and its culture. The project was introduced as part of the recovery plan of Japan after the 2011 earthquake disaster.

This is the travelogue by Brett Ong, one of the participants from Melbourne.