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JCCC Family Golf Tournament
JCCC Annual Family Golf Tournament

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2pm» Discussion on International Marirage with Keiko Miyamatsu Saunders

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7pm» Hockey NIght in Japan

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7pm» September Movie Night: Funuke

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7pm» Frontline for Peace Concert

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1pm» Speakers Session with George Hewson

26 (Week 39)
1pm» Celebrate the Season of Matsutake with Chef Hashimoto

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Description:

The 14th annual Family Golf Tournament will be held on Sunday September 12, 2010 at Rolling hills Golf Club, Stouffville, ON.

Entry forms are available at the JCCC reception desk or can be downloaded from the JCCC website.

Description:

The JCCC is hosting the 14th Annual Family Golf Tournament on Sunday September 12 2010 at Rolling Hills Golf Club. This is a chance for families and friends to share a a fun day of golf - all skill levels welcome and there are lots of prizes to be won! After a great day of golfing, there will be presentations and a buffet dinner back at the JCCC... We encourage everyone to join with grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, moms and dads, or just a group of friends. It can be a scramble or individual format. Application forms are now available at the JCCC reception area or we can fax/email one to you. We also welcome hole sponsors - corporate or family - some sponsor levels include your green fees and contributes to our Heritage programming at the JCCC. Our biggest sponsor, Dundeee Wealth Management (Marty Kobayashi), is also generously providing refreshments while out on the course! So please come on out for a really fun day!!!!! For more information, please contact the JCCC at 416-441-2345 or email Sharon Marubashi (Co-chair) at marubashi@rogers.com.
Sharon Marubashi
Co-Chair JCCC Family Golf Committee

Time:

2:00pm

Description:

Keiko Miyamatsu-Saunders will be launching her new book about international marriage on Sunday September 19, 2010 at 2:00pm at the JCCC.
Keiko will talk about the results and her thoughts on the numerous questionnaires, statistics and interviews she has conducted with real-life couples who are in an international marriage.
The book launch will be held in both English and Japanese. She hopes that her book will give some insight to people who are already in an international marriage or are about to get married to someone with a different ethnic background. Admission is free. Please RSVP to 416-441-2345.

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

The JCCC is proud to present an evening of Japanese Canadian films themed around Ice Hockey. Both are by Japanese Canadian filmmakers and each explores how the most Canadian of sports has impacted their experiences with the Japanese community and culture.
JA JA Rock Dem’ Sock Dem’ is Coalhouse Campbell’s film of his experiences travelling to Japan as a semi-professional hockey player while searching out his Japanese grandfather’s, and his own, Japanese roots.
The Contest is a short film by Naoko Kumagai which traces the influence of hockey in the cultural assimilation of a new immigrant Japanese woman (based on her own mother).

Date: Wednesday September 22, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: $5 JCCC members, $6 non-members

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

The JCCC presents this darkly comic tale of manga, elicit love, desperate housewives, attempted murder and one deeply dysfunctional family in the heart of the Japanese countryside.
After both parents die in a car accident, elder sister Sumika (Satou Eriko) comes back home from Tokyo because the family is no longer able to send her money for acting school. The other 2 members of the family are the little sister Kyomi (Satsukawa Aimi), an asthma-stricken, aspiring manga writer and older brother Shinji (Nagase Masatoshi), who abuses his wife Machiko (Nagasaku Hiromi). Now that the frustrated elder sister is back (and eager to leave again though she has no money), tension within the family hits an all-time-high. Every member of the family has a dark secret and it leads to one event after another...
The film, directed in 2007 by Daihachi Yoshida, starring Aimi Satsukawa, Eriko Satou, Hiromi Nagasaku and Masatoshi Nagase, won film festival awards around the world in the acting and directorial categories.

Date: Thursday September 23, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: $7 JCCC members, $9 non-members

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

Frontline for Peace ‘touches our heart with the love for the children’. Dr. Kuwayama shows us hope for the future with his courageous spirit.”
In 2008, Vancouver’s Nikkei community invited Dr. Kuwayama from Japan to be part of the event of the 20th Anniversary of Redress. He talked both in English and in Japanese from the stage and sang songs playing guitar and violin, while showing the video and slides. His performance captivated the heart of the audience, although that was his first international concert outside of Japan.
The Peace concert is a tremendously uplifting and informative event that features the musical and story telling talents of Dr.Norihiko Kuwayama. It is a concert event that brings the audience a message of global peace, while raising awareness of the struggle for human rights, particularly for those of children in war-torn countries.
Dr. Kuwayama shares his experiences as a volunteer medical doctor in developing countries and in conflict areas through a colourful narration of hundreds of slides in combination with original songs. His grassroots approach makes it accessible to all. He has performed his concert over 2000 times and has toured extensively in Japan.
How can we help others?
His beautiful music and lyrics, backed by the images forces the audience to consider their own lives and the lives of others, thinking about how we can help those people who lack basic human rights and to think about how we can work to bring peace in those areas with conflict.
The JCCC welcomes him at the Kobayashi Hall on Friday September 24, 2010. Please spread this news from mouth to mouth and bring your family and friends together.
Visit youtube and see previews: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0YSENsDpY

Date: Saturday September 24, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Ticket: $10 (+tax)JCCC members, $15 (+tax) non-members,
$7 children(up to age 18)
*Q& A session will be held after the performance.
*This event is for children 5 and over. We regret we cannot allow children under 5 to this performance.
* 10% discount for groups of 20 or more.

Time:

1:00pm

Description:

Join us on Saturday September 25, 2010 at the JCCC for an intimate presentation by George Hewson, retired high school teacher, Aikido sensei and long-time JC community volunteer, as he presents a special slide show that will include pictures from his 2008 trip to Japan with his wife, Gerry (nee Nishimura).
“My presentation is entitled: ‘What's Up with Me and the JCs?’ It has to do with how I became familiar with Japanese Canadians as a result of my interest in martial arts,” Hewson, a 6th dan Aikido teacher, explains. “It outlines my experiences at the JCCC, meeting and marrying Gerry Nishimura, travelling to Japan, etc. The underlying theme, however, is about what it means to be Canadian. The story is, thus, both personal and universal since it addresses the issue of identity.”
"'Friendship through culture' has transformed my life,” he adds.
Hewson is currently a teacher in the Education Department at the Royal Ontario Museum, teaching courses about Chinese and Japanese culture. The 6th dan teacher opened Aikido Seishinkai in 1995 with his 4th dan wife and is president of the Canadian Aikido Federation. Gerry’s mother, Yachiyo Miike, was born in Vancouver and father, Kinzaburo, immigrated from Shiga-ken. After internment they went to Cedar Springs, Ontario, and later settled in Toronto.
The Speaker Series talk is hosted by Nikkei Voice writer Norm Ibuki. The talk and slide show will begin at 1:00pm. Tea and refreshments will be served afterwards. Come join us for what is certain to be a very personal and informative talk about Hewson’s active membership in the JC community for more than 30 years and his relationship with Japanese and Nikkei culture.

Time:

1:00pm - 4:00pm

Description:

Chef Masaki Hashimoto runs one of the country’s most highly regarded and best reviewed Japanese restaurants: Kaiseki Yuzen Hashimoto. The JCCC is proud to announce that in September, he will lead a cooking demonstration followed by a gourmet tasting, based on one of Japanese most sought after ingredients: the Matsutake or pine mushroom.
Matsutake are considered the king of Japanese mushrooms and are prized for their distinct spicy-aromatic scent. They represent a special autumn delicacy in Japan, however they tend to be difficult to find (like truffles) and are very expensive.
At the event Chef Hashimoto will demonstrate 3 different matsutake-based recipes. This will be followed by a tasting of matsutake dishes which are served as part of Hashimoto’s famous kaiseki cuisine. The event will be a rare treat for serious lovers of exceptional Japanese food as well as those curious about how to create these delicacies at home. Participants will also take home a package of dried matsutake mushrooms.
Spaces are limited so sign up now! Participants can also order matsutake (dried or fresh) at a special 20% discount (please see below for details). One participant will win a $600 gift certificate for a meal at Kaiseki Yuzen Hashimoto.

Date: Sunday September 26, 2010
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Admission: $80 JCCC members, $90 non-members +HST
Please RSVP to JCCC 416-441-2345 or stop by the JCCC Reception Desk. Payment is required to guarantee your spot.
*Please note that this is not a hands-on cooking seminar.

Matsutake Pre-Order:
Matsutake can be purchased through Mediocs at a special 20% discount. Please contact Sachiyo Watanabe at 905-677-6727 or email swatanabe@mediocs.ca before September 17, and mention that you will be attending in the demonstration.