2 weeks to Hyper Japan festival!! XD

Hello everyone!
I'm delighted to announce a brand-new festival in London - "Hyper Japan" on 1 - 3 October at T1 Hall, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL, London.
Manga seminar, Cosplay competitions , Sushi shops, Kimono shops... and more!
Chie Kutsuwada and I - both are from Manga collectives called Umisen-Yamasen will deliver a Manga seminar on 2nd October - and of cause having a table as well.
I look forward to seeing you at the festival!

Exhibition - CHILD OF THE ATOM

Hello everyone!
Finally the summer has gone, here is a little information of Autumn - CHILD OF THE ATOM - A new film and installation by David Blandy.

'There is a familial myth that my late Grandfather would not have survived being a Japanese Prisoner of War had the atomic bombing of Hiroshima not occurred. So it could be argued that I owe my existence to one of the most terrifying events of human history and the death of 110,000 people.'
- David Blandy

I'm joining providing animation part of his new film and drawing artworks.
Please pop around if you're in East London somewhere! :D

Date : Thursday 2nd Sep - Saturday 2nd Oct 2010

Location :	Seventeen Gallery 17 Kingsland Road London, United Kingdom

JAPAN EXPO in Paris!! 1st July - 4th July

Hello everybody!! I hope all of you are enjoying nice summer weather.
Me and Chie Kutsuwada a talented UK manga artist, and Nipponaisuki a brilliant artist are joining in JAPAN EXPO in Paris! Our table is called UMISEN-YAMASEN.COM. If you're planning to come to JAPAN EXPO, please visit our table!! :D
I hope I'll see you there!!

Sat 26th June - Brighton & Hove Japanese Club Open Day!

Hello people, have you got anything to do this Saturday? If you haven't, and if you are happened to be near Brighton area, would you like to try:

Brighton & Hove Japanese Club Open Day - Summer Festival, Hove Park School, Nevill Campus Main Hall (Nevill Road, Hove, BN3 7BN)
26th June
12 - 4pm

Brighton & Hove Japanese Club was established in 1989 by Japanese parents who live in Brighton and Hove area. They teach Japanese language as well as culture to children. The Open Day is the most important event for them to introduce their activities and Japanese culture to local residents. Dance sessions with live music from Shamisen (traditional string instrument) and Japanese Food & Drink stalls. Please come and try a day in Japan!

Shiatsu massage
Shamisen Live Performance
Awa Odori
Free dance lesson
Japanese cafe
Children's performance
Japanese Calligraphy
Manga Portrait
Yo-Yo fishing

FREE admission

E-Kagen flyer

A comic strip? No, this is E-Kagen, Japanese restaurant & food shop flyer design.
It's quite a fun to see people's reaction when they look at this. :)

MCM London Expo on 29th & 30th May!

Hey people!!
It's been a really nice week and I have a news - I'm joining in MCM London Expo on 29th & 30th May as a member of Umisen-Yamasen. Please visit our table and get a manga portrait, manga comics, fan art postcards!! :D

See you there! x

Fan Art, Manga Portrait @ ICA in London!

Hello people!

I am joining in a contemporary artist, David Blandy's Live Weekend exhibition at ICA, London.
I'll be taking part of Fan Art section, also doing manga portraits.
Please come along as there are screenings, music, and a Street Fighter IV tournament!
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Thursday 6 May: David Blandy

From Midday David Blandy's day at the ICA "Choose Your Character" will celebrate a variety of different fan-behaviours and sub-cultural obsessions that reflect the artist's own passions. Including rooms featuring a Street Fighter IV tournament
and Turntablist DJing, alongside a record market and cosplayers. Features live music from Infinite Livez, King Cannibal, turntablists DJ Phaze, DJ Shorty, DJ CutWild, g-man and Priority Deluxe, music stalls from Ninja Tunes, Rough Trade, Soul & Dance Exchange and Flashback, hardcore fighting game tournament organisers Neo Empire and cosplayers The Rebel Legion and Heroes Alliance UK. Plus a screening of Damon Packard's fandom-tinged film work via Artprojx.

David Blandy lives and works in London, using video, performance and comics to address identity formation and its relationship to popular culture. Blandy searches for his cultural position in the world, often using humour to ask just how much the self is formed by its immersion in the world of records, films and television, and whether the answers to life’s questions can be found in these mass-produced objects.

He has exhibited at venues such as The Bluecoat as part of the 2008 Liverpool Biennial, Turner Contemporary, Margate, The Baltic, Gateshead, Spike Island, Bristol, 176, London, Artprojx Space, Platform China Project Space, Beijing, and Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, Brazil and at various international screenings by Artprojx. His work is distributed by LUX.

Schedule
12noon - 11pm, Lower Gallery, David Blandy's "Choose Your Character".
2pm - 7pm, Theatre, Artprojx curated screenings.
7pm - 1am, Bar, David Blandy's "Choose Your Character" DJs & live music feat Infinite Livez.