Japanese Arts & Culture from the Centre of Utrecht
Last Sunday, Hortus Overzee organised for the fourteenth time its cultural Japan Day, during which one could immerse oneself in special cultural, culinary and artistic atmospheres in and around the Japanese garden “Meeting of the Streams”. Among other Japan Fans, our board member Marieke was there.
Most of the Japan Fans’ events are in the centre of Utrecht, but last Friday, we had a “mini matsuri” (in Dutch, we call that a “matsurietje”) in Culemborg.
As a result of the concerts with Japanese flute music, which Japan Fans Utrecht organised at CAMERA JAPAN festival and the Manga and Japanese Culture Week, among others, founder Martine was interviewed by Simone Langejan for the national daily paper Algemeen Dagblad. An English translation can be found below, with …
From the centre of Utrecht in The Netherlands, the Japan Fans strive to promote Japanese art & culture. At CAMERA JAPAN FESTIVAL, they will do a special “Japan Fans Performance at CAMERA JAPAN” which consists of sumi-e with Japanese music.
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