July 2020 2020年7月 Vol. 46 Issue 7
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July 2020 2020年7月 Vol. 46 Issue 7 Best Of The Toronto Japanese Film Festival ベスト オブ トロント日本映画祭 Preparing To Reopen – Exercising “OMOIYARI” JCCC再開に向けて -「思いやり」 Enjoy JCCC events and programs at home おうちから参加いただけるJCCCのプログラム・イベント Dear Readers, For the safety of our members, community and friends - and in accordance Ontario public health directives - the JCCC is continues to be closed to the public until further notice. During our closure, the JCCC will be distributing our newsletter online only. Please feel free to share our newsletter as it contains helpful information about the community as well as JCCC offerings during this time of social isolation. Our website, www.jccc.on.ca, as well as our social media pages will have the most up-to-date information. Please note that this closure does not apply to private businesses operating at our 6 Garamond Court location. Please contact them directly for updates on their status. Those business can be accessed through the JCCC east entrance. We thank you for your understanding and support, and look forward to welcoming you again in the near future. Please stay well. 2019 - 2020 JCCC Board of Directors JCCC Staff James Heron President Gary Kawaguchi Executive Director Past President/Advisor Marty Kobayashi [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.224 VP, Heritage Jan Nobuto Kathy Tazumi VP, Management Brian Toda Chief Accounting/Administration Officer Secretary Sharon Marubashi [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.229 Finance Chair Jonathan Carter Sandy Chan Co – VP, NJCC Miki Rushton General Manager [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.226 Co – VP, NJCC Jiro Fukushima Directors Ann Ashley Constantin Dutescu Operations and Technical Manager Karen Gordon [email protected] 416-460-3522 Mark Hashimoto Haruko Ishihara Chris Hope Special Events and Rentals Manager Kristin Kobayashi-Reid [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.228 Keiichi Kubo Christine Takasaki Linda Ono Community Events Coordinator John Ota [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.221 Cary Rothbart Yuki Nakata Ross Saito Volunteer Coordinator Karen Webb [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.235 Advisors Mackenzie Clugston Yayoi Kawabe Janice Fukakusa Website and Database Administrator [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.223 William Hatanaka Sid Ikeda Yoshie Watanabe Community Rentals Steve Oikawa [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.231 Connie Sugiyama Su Yen Chong Miki Kobayashi SUBMISSION DEADLINE JCCC Foundation Chair Janice Fukakusa [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.303 Deadline for the next issue is: Tuesday July 14, 2020. Theressa Takasaki DAVID IKEDA 次号の締め切りは2020年7月14日(火)です。 Sales Representative [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.300 Your news is welcome! Yumi Ogasawara 416-234-2424 Please email to [email protected] JCCC Receptionist www.ikedasells.com [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.222 Editors: James Heron, Kathy Tazumi, Yoko Tsumagari Yoko Tsumagari Sutton Group Communications and Accounting Associate [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.227 Old Mill Realty Inc., Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Cover Image: © Roberto Maggioni Brokerage 6 Garamond Court, Toronto, M3C 1Z5 Phone: 416-441-2345 www.jccc.on.ca 1 July 2020 Vol. 46 Issue 7 Contents Messages from JCCC 3 JCCC Events / Programs 4 Volunteer Spotlight and News 10 The Online Tea Ceremony Relay 11 Renewing JCCC membership 11 Archiving at Home – Part 3 12 Sedai Features 13 変わりゆく新しい日常の中で 13 PREPARING TO REOPEN – EXERCISING “OMOIYARI” Thank you – Donation 15 Hello everyone, Life is Like a Hockey Game 22 We don’t usually distribute a July issue of ema chains and performance halls for best our newsletter, rather a 2-month combined practices. The Our martial arts program Summer Picnic in Style 23 summer edition in June. But these are dif- requires us to work with national martial ferent times and we want to keep you in the arts organizations while our partnerships Embrace @ Home 24 know as to the changing crisis situation. with the ROM, the AGO and the Aga Khan The core Japanese value of OMOIYARI Museum mean we have access to leading お顔のツボでビューティー&ヘルスメンテナンス is sometimes translated as “altruistic sensi- safety protocols for galleries and museums. We will look to the school boards for the 読書の時間~書店が選ぶおススメ本~ tivity: an individual’s sensitivity to imagine another’s feelings and personal affairs, in- best ways to run our classes. Entry proto- 音楽で遊ぼう! cluding his or her circumstances.” In many cols will be thorough but respectful. ways it is simply a heightened Japanese 健やかな老後をめざして その28 28 version of what we would call “consider- Our Omoiyari Promise: We will be ation for others.” Omoiyari is the basis of sensitive to the needs and safety of our Best of TJFF program our reopening strategy. members and visitors, and take every Wearing masks is a gesture of omoi- precaution to ensure the JCCC is a safe, clean, hygienic environment. yari. Wearing a mask is not about protect- ing oneself, it is an act of consideration and a desire to protect others. In that spirit, we Our Omoiyari Request: We require will respectfully request that all visitors to all JCCC visitors to wear a mask. Masks drastically reduce the spread to others. For the JCCC wear masks. James Heron, Executive Director We are currently studying “best in class” the sake of our members and community For updates, please connect with us on practices and procedures from a number of we ask for your cooperation. We will be industries to incorporate in our reopening. doing the same for you too. For Kobayashi Hall we look to leading cin- July 2020 Vol. 46 Issue 7 2 3 July 2020 Vol. 46 Issue 7 JCCC Events / Programs Subscribe to the JCCC Take a Look at Martial Arts Classes Update YouTube Channel JCCC's New Website! Over the summer, our martial arts clubs The JCCC is excited to announce the continue to be committed to connecting launch of our new website, redesigned to with our members through our virtual be more user-friendly, with added features classes until the JCCC reopens. to make member experience more Please see below for a listing of enjoyable. classes and class times. If you haven’t already, we encourage you to join in when The JCCC YouTube channel is home to a The revamped website offers a you can as a way to stay fit and to continue vast variety of content, and is one of the number of new features including: to connect with your program, your sensei ways the JCCC continues to serve our • Improved Online Donation Portal: it is and your friends. These online programs community during this period of facility now even easier to make your donations are free to all our existing martial arts closure. Much of our class content, such online. members. as the collection of our ukulele tutorials, • Mobile Friendly Interface: fully BEST OF THE TORONTO If you are a current student, you are available for all to view. responsive on all screen sizes, the mobile- KOKUBAN Thank You For Your 1000 Cranes Huge Success for a Community Senbazuru JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL should have received an invitation from Our Virtual Library has also been friendly website is easy to navigate on your JCCC’s Monthly E-Bulletin – School’s Out! Project (THE LIGHTER SIDE) your course leader to attend classes. consistently offering new content, with computer, phone or tablet. If you have not, please email us at Toshiki Mori leading us in stories and • JCCC News: easy access to School’s out! What a bizarre experience it Senbazuru, or one thousand paper cranes, As we await the post-crisis reopening and [email protected] and we will put an 8-week bilingual series on Japanese information about the latest developments has been for our children in the last few are said to represent hope and wish the commencement of our rescheduled you in touch with the course leader. Proverbs. Know the meaning of “hand at the JCCC. months. In this issue of Kokuban, our fulfillment. Thanks to your overwhelming TJFF 2020 in October, we thought it from throat”? Check out Toshiki’s videos • Programs and Events: improved new monthly e-bulletin that covers topics support, we have achieved our goal of appropriate to use Japanese film to lift Aikido on our channel for a bit of weekly wisdom. navigation to help you find the events from heritage treasures to stories from our collecting photographs of over 1,000 everyone’s spirits at this very confusing Sundays – 10:00 am to 11:30 am and The JCCC’s Virtual Library is currently and programs you are looking for, and community, we are pleased to introduce paper cranes. time. We are delighted to announce a 11:45 am to 1:00 pm accepting submissions of online book seamless syncing to your calendar so you you to a children’s project – Paprika – We will now begin the next step of the special series representing some of the Tuesdays – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm reading story–telling. Why not make it a fun won't miss another JCCC event. a creation of the Japanese Canadian project, which will be preparing our Virtual most popular – and light-hearted – films Thursdays – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm summer activity to do with your children, • Improved Site Navigation: search community in Toronto has created. To Senbazuru! Please watch for more details from the past 8 years of festivals and film and share it with the JCCC. Please contact anything using keywords and instantly find watch the children’s wonderful smiles and about this exciting project! program. Iaido Haruko Ishihara at [email protected] what you are looking for.