Our major event each year is the Golden Week Japan Festival held to coincide with the holiday period in Japan. A well attended public event, the Kodomo no Hi celebration lets you enjoy a variety of exhibitions, displays and performances plus some great Japanese food! This year will be just as good with participants coming from Japan again.

2007 Festival Program

Kodomo no Hi (こどもの日) - Children's Day celebration

Date: Sunday 6th May

Time: 11am - 4pm

Place: Cowandilla Primary School, 1 Jenkins St, Cowandilla

Cost: Gold coin donation

The programme for Children's Day includes lots of Japanese music, folk dancing, singing, games, kites, tea ceremony, martial arts demonstrations, exhibitions of bonsai and ikebana, craft stalls, trash and treasure stall, food stalls, Japanese trains (further information about the trains at an external site) and mochitsuki (pounding rice cake using traditional implements).

Japanese Film Festival

The film festival will present the work of Tezuka Osamu the father of Japanese anime and will feature some of his greatest stories.

JAFA will be presenting four films in conjuction with the MRC at the Mercury Cinema. The films being shown are:

• Tuesday 1st May, 7.30pm.
• Wednesday 2nd May, 7.30pm.
• Friday 4th May, 7.30pm.
• Saturday 5th May, 7.30pm.

Tickets at the door, special discount for JAFA members. For more information visit www.mercurycinema.org.au

Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database.