Activities
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Kansai chapter organizes monthly meetings, seminars and/or workshops several times a year.
The next monthly meeting will be a double presentation:
Date: April 18, 2015
Speaker 1: Stephen Shrader, Kansai Gaidai
Topic: Meeting Mustafa: Experience Deep Difference
Speaker 2: Nobue Maeda, language educator
Topic: Let’s Enjoy English and Culture: Cultivating a Community of Diversity
Venue: Takatsuki Shiritsu Sogo Shimin Koryu Center, Takatsuki
(1 minute walk from JR Takatsuki Station) Tel. 0726-85-3721
http://www.city.takatsuki.osaka.jp/db/kurasu/images/koryu.gif
Fee: Free for members and students; 500 yen for non-members
Language: English
Social: Dinner after the session at a Thai/Balinese restaurant
Reservations for dinner required by April 15.
Contact fujimotodonna@gmail.com
Note: No prior registration required to attend the session
The Sietar Kansai held a “Yuka Party” at Mr. Jeff Berglund’s house which is a traditional Machiya style house located by the Kamogawa river in Kyoto. (September, 2014)
“Yuka” party at Mr. Jeff Berglund’s house
Dinner served by from traditional Japanese restaurant, which is called “shidashi bento”. Drinks were prepared by ourselves.
- The music performance by Mr. Berglund and Ms. Nagane after dinner
- At the entrance of Mr. Jeff Berglund’s house which is a traditional Machiya style house
“Resilient Minorities In Japan: – “Ainu-Maori Cultural Exchange” by Jennifer Teeter
- “Filipino English Teachers in Japan” by Jason Bartashius (February, 2014)
Double Presentation at Joint Program with Osaka JALT, February 2014 Monthly Meeting
Student Fair (December, 2014)
Christmas concert at Student Fair Dec. 2014
- Lunch gethering with Dr. Clarke at Okinawan restaurant in Tsuruhashi, Osaka
- The dinner with Prof.Ando after May meeting at Italian restaurant
FIELD TRIP : THE KOBE MUSLIM MOSQUE
(Monthly meeting / April 20, 2013)
- KOBE MOSULIM MOSQUE
http://www.sietar-kansai.com/en/20130527231755.html
We visited the Kobe Muslim Mosque for our filed trip in 2013. Arai Ahsan, the General Secretary had a brief talk and a Q&A time there.
After the above visit, we had a coffee and tea at Nishimura Coffee shop. We invited Mr. Mustafa, an Afganistan senior student in Momoyama Gakuin University shared his experiances, Islamic culture and customs of Muslim people as a cultural informant there.
We visited Kobe Grocers (http://kobegrocers.com), and Kobe Halal Foods (http://www.geocities.jp/kobehalalfood/newpage1.htm) for the halal food. 
All participants at the field trip at the inside of the KOBE MUSLIM MOSQUE. Femal participants brought scarves to cover the head.
Dinner at a Turkish restaurant, “Cafe Istanbul”
Dinner at a Turkish restaurant, “Cafe Istanbul” pic #2
After the field trip, we had a dinner at Cafe Istanbul, an Turkish restaurant in Sannomiya, Kobe. The cheerful Turkish chef and staff welcomed us well. The berry dance was showed as a special welcoming performance by free this time.
participants in front of the restaurant, Cafe Istabul
JOINT MEETING WITH JALT: “One Person Can Make a Difference”, an article by Jason Bartashius in the Talk by Ms. Nishiyama
(Monthly meeting / MARCH 30, 2013)
On the second anniversary of the 3.11 disasters, all eyes zoomed in on the recently released World Health Organization’s assessment of the health risks caused by the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant. The report indicated the likelihood of residents contracting cancer would rise only slightly. The findings, however, were quickly challenged by medical and biological scientists at a two-day symposium in New York titled, “The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.”
And so the debate goes on. Read more
Dessart group after the event on the above.