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NIHON MATSURI – JAPAN FESTIVAL DAY 2019

Save the Date… Friday 16th August!

REMEMBER TO ORDER YOUR JAPANESE LUNCH BY MONDAY 12th AUGUST - ORDERS CLOSE AT 9PM.

Students have the opportunity to order a Japanese themed lunch on Friday 16th August - our "Nihon Matsuri" - Japan Festival Day. Please note there is no canteen on this day. 

This year we are offering YAKISOBA and SUSHI. Orders are now open on QKR (under "Japanese Festival Day" tab) and close at 9pm on Monday 12th August. 

Yakisoba is a classic Japanese street food made by stir-frying vegetables, meat and noodles with a sweet and savoury sauce. Students have the choice of Chicken or Vegetable, and either small ($4.50) or medium ($8). Please see attached picture as an indication of container size (prima to help with scale!). Rectangle container is medium & round container is a small size. 

Sushi is a Japanese dish of prepared vinegared rice, usually with some sugar and salt, accompanying a variety of ingredients, such as seafood and vegetables. Students can choose from Chicken Teriyaki; Cooked Tuna (GF); Salmon & Avocado (GF) & Mixed Vegetable (GF). $3 per roll.

Our supplier is Akita Sushi at DTC.

Arigatou - thank you

JAPAN TRIP UPDATE

27 days to go!

TRIP HIGHLIGHT: ODAIBA

Wednesday 4th September

Odaiba is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially built in this area for defensive purposes in the 1850s. Now Odaiba is a shopping and high-tech entertainment hub. Visitors head to the beach at Seaside Park, enjoy Mt. Fuji views from the Daikanransha Ferris wheel, and interact with robots at the Miraikan science museum. 

We will be visiting several key sites on Odaiba, including:

MIRAIKAN – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

Miraikan or “The Future Centre” in Odaiba is an excellent science museum dedicated to the best of Japanese technology and cutting-edge research. There are interactive exhibits about space exploration, robots (like Honda’s ASIMO), neutrino observation instruments, environmental issues like climate change, and information technology.

teamLab Borderless Interactive Art Display

teamLab Borderless is a world of artworks without boundaries, a museum without a map created by art collective teamLab. Artworks move out of rooms, communicate with other works, influence, and sometimes intermingle with each other with no boundaries. Immerse your body in borderless art in this vast, complex, three-dimensional 10,000 square meter world. Wander, explore with intention, discover, and create a new world with others.

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

BRINGING TEAMLAB TO MELBOURNE! A FREE EVENT!

Inspired by the locations in Odaiba we will be visiting and wishing you could see it to? Well now you can!

Drop Everything, A Free Exhibition From Japan’s Famous Art Collective Is Coming To Melbourne

https://www.theurbanlist.com/melbourne/a-list/teamlab-reversible-rotation

What: teamLab’s Reversible Rotation

When:  Saturday, 5 October until Saturday, 2 November 2019

Where: Tolarno Galleries, Level 4/104 Exhibition St

For more info, click here.

This is not a drill, people: famous Japanese art collective teamLab is part of this year's Melbourne Festival. For the head-scratchers out there, teamLab is an interdisciplinary group of ultra technologists whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, design and the natural world. Various specialists such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects form teamLab and together, create some pretty breathtaking installations.

teamLab is behind that wacky floating forest of fluorescent egg-shaped objects that detected human movement, that insane virtual water installation (where a mini whirlpool of virtual formed beneath your feet and interacted with others around you), and the one where virtual flowers bloomed in your freaking hand. 

Long story short: this thing will be a once-in-a-lifetime must-see and it is hitting Melbourne in October. Presented in association with Tolarno Galleries as part of the Melbourne Festival, the Reversible Rotation exhibition will simulate the motion of hundreds of thousands of digital particles. Those particles will then be projected as cascades of shimmering luminescence, but to a viewer, the effect is that of floating in a wave made of light: it’ll be like you’re floating in a giant wave of digital light. 

Reversible Rotation will run from Saturday, 5 October until Saturday, 2 November 2019 and it is completely free, so you’ve no excuse.

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