Events
Tea Ceremony Demonstration & Tasting
to Celebrate the Arrival of Spring
Please join Professor Sato for this special program on Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 1:00pm in the McCormick Auditorium at the Norris Center
Guests will be offered an authentic Maccha (green tea) tasting.**
Shozo Sato is a master of Zen arts, including ikebana, the
tea ceremony, and Sumi-e (black ink painting). Born in Ikataku, Kobe City, Japan in 1933, Shozo Sato received a degree in fine
arts from Bunka Gakuin College, Tokyo, and also highest diplomas in the
Japanese tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and classical dance. His dramatic
training took place at Toho Academy, Tokyo; in Kabuki, he was a special
student of Nakamura Kenzaburo XVII. Professor Sato conducts
workshops on all of these arts throughout the United
States, Asia, and Europe and is the author of numerous
books, including Tea Ceremony, Ikebana, and The Art of
Sumi-e.
For more information please contact
b-ramirez@northwestern.edu
**Because it is a strong tea we ask that participants come with a full stomach
This event is sponsored by Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Asian and Middle East Studies Program. For further information call (847) 491-7980.
This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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KOTO SOUND TEAM KYARA
HOSTED BY SHOZO SATO and
LED BY KAORU NAKAMURA
Saturday, March 28, 7 PM
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Evanston Campus
 Enjoy an evening of musical beauty, performed by this acclaimed ensemble from Nagoya, Japan. The group takes its name, Kyara, from a Japanese word for a fine and subtle incense made from wood. Kyara’s musical selections will range from exquisite classical works to a contemporary fusion of anime action hero themes with American jazz, performed on koto, a stringed, zither-like instrument. Tea master, artist and scholar Shozo Sato will host you on this musical journey.
The Koto Sound Team Kyara has performed at the Japan Festival, Vienna Concert Hall in Vienna, Austria, at the Asian Museum in San Francisco, in Aberdeen, Scotland as well as throughout Japan. The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Asian and Middle East Studies Program at Northwestern University are honored to host this award winning musical troupe. For more information please email the Asian and Middle East Studies Program or call 847-491-7980
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
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KABUKI KIDS OF DAMINE VILLAGE
Thursday, January 8, 2009
7:00pm
Norris Center, McCormic Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public
The Kabuki Kids of Damine Village, Aichi, Japan, maintain a 300-year-old pledge that the children of their village learn and perform Kabuki. The Damine Kabuki Troupe’s performance will be narrated by renowned Master of Japanese traditional arts, Shozo Sato!
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