Events by Temasek Polytechnic Japanese Cultural Group
On behalf of the Anime/Manga Subcom,
This Sat’s Anime Screening will be featuring Appleseed (ya!!) and other anime. Join them this Saturday at ITAS LT 5, 11am onwards. Please bring your membership card to present before the screening.
Happy Chinese New Yr to All!!!
Hi for those who are interested in this,
Here’s some rough information especially on the menu of the restaurant we’re going this month. Please check it out at:
http://www.curry-favor.com/index.php
That way, you have a rough idea on how much you want to spend on that day. If ya wanna join me in this cuisine trip, please drop a note at my inbox - jcg_stuff@hotmail.com. Thanks!!
Itching to create logo designs? Want to do something for JCG? Give JCG a fresh new look?
Well, Japanese Cultural Group needs YOU!!!!
We are looking for a new logo design that embodies what our club symbolises. This design is a way of revamping our club’s image for the future. The letters JCG has to be included in the logo design.
Prize: A pair of movie tickets to watch either Howl’s Moving Castle or Swing Girls.
Please send to jcg_stuff@hotmail.com (subj: Logo Competition) including your
1. Full Name
2. Contact no.
3. Which movie title you’re interested in
4. The logo file
5. Short summary of what that logo symbolises.
(Your logo design has to be saved as a jpeg file in maximum best quality.)
Deadline: 1st March 2005 (updated)
For anymore enquiries, please email them to jcg_stuff@hotmail.com (subj: Logo Enquiries)
Hello everybody,
Just like to remind again on how to keep track of what’s happening for our events.
1. JCG Notice Board (located near the library staircase)
- usually holds rough summaries of events of the month, posters of upcomin events, contact lists and articles.
2. JCG Forum (the address is written on your membership card)
- good place to find latest updates or changes in the calendar of events (calendar link is near the top of the forum page) You can also chat abt events or talk abt jap interests.
3. JCG Mailing List (for those of you have signed up for it)
- you get a ‘Wat’s Happening in ~’ email in the first wk of the mth and any following events announcements.
4. Join the JCG Meeting! (held usually the first saturday of each month)
- sure way to find out what’s happening for the month or even plans for the next few months. Also can meet up fellow members and discuss on club issues.
Hope everybody will always be aware of the latest happenins
Impt! Please read through this:
Date: Tuesday 1st March 2005
Time: 4.00.pm (or 4.30.) to. 6.30.pm
Venue: Waseda Shibuya Senior High School (Rooms 31 and 32)
Aim: to promote cultural interchange between our Japanese students and their visitors and to make both sides aware of the joys and difficulties of learning a new language. Talks or presentations to centre on culture of the different groups, followed up by language games to encourage Waseda students and their guests to talk to each other in English and Japanese, at all levels of language ability.
Programme:
(1) The topic of the students of Waseda Shibuya Senior High School
Topic/Theme: Places and Culture - Past &/or Present:
“Where would you take me if I went to Japan?”
“What would you show me?”
Waseda Students present to visitors places or activities of interest in Japan in terms of :
Nature, History or Religious Importance,
Cultural experiences (e.g. hot spring baths etc.)
Food and Fashion (what is unique to a region where possible)
Festival of that region (when to go, what you will find etc.)
NOTE: the topics chosen may include cultural aspects of past and/or present-day Japan
(2) The topic of the guests (that’s US!!)
Topic/Theme: Places and Culture - Past &/or Present:
“Where would you take me if I went to Singapore?”
“What would you show me?”
The guests present to visitors places or activities of interest in Singapore in terms of :
Nature, History or Religious Importance,
Cultural experiences (e.g. hot spring baths etc.)
Food and Fashion (what is unique to a region where possible)
Festival of that region (when to go, what you will find etc.)
NOTE: the topics chosen may include cultural aspects of past and/or present-day Singapore
Students in Waseda Shibuya Senior High School will be divided according to Level and will work in classes, but may choose one or several topics per class. The students will choose the topics.
Groups/levels will focus primarily, but not exclusively, on a region:
Yokohama-Tokyo - Advanced
Hokkaido - Standard
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe - Basic
After that guest will present.
Rough Guideline of the Day
4.30. to 5.30.pm:
Welcome speech, Presentations
Presentations (in English) will take about ten minutes per Level (1/2 hour for Waseda) and ½ hour for the visitors (in Japanese if they are learning the language). After each Waseda group presentation, visitors will be invited to ask a question in Japanese. Waseda students will try to answer in English.
5.30. to 6.30.pm
Snack
Interactive language games
Closing speech
Clear up
NOTE: Visitors will be invited to apply the same theme: Places and Culture - Where would you choose to take me in Singapore? What would you show me? Visitors can deliver speeches in Japanese at all levels of ability.
The Singaporean participants are encouraged to use Japanese at this forum, but not compulsory.
