Father’s Day is coming in one week and June 21st is “Father’s Day” dedicated for our beloved Pa Pa. In Japan, people give yellow flowers especially yellow roses to their fathers on “Father’s Day”. Have you also thought of what to give to your father? 

We’d like to invite you to join our Online Origami Club Activity to celebrate Father’s Day by doing Origami “Yellow Rose Letter” with ‘thank you’ note attached. 

Share your Origami Letter with us in the comment section of this post with the hashtag #Father’sDay #OnlineOrigamiActivity. Later, we would like to make a slide show video of your beautiful work.  

Please see the stages of making Origami yellow rose letter in the video of the link below. 

 

Required items: yellow colored paper, a small piece of green paper, scissor, one A4 sheet to make the envelope 

If you don’t have yellow colored paper, you can use either wrapping paper of any color or use white paper and color with crayons.  

Let’s make our own customized letter with utmost love and care for our beloved father! Don’t forget to write the message in the envelope! 

To make yellow rose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjiJurxF2Aw&fbclid=IwAR1ir5MT_CiCuo_KO0XM-9uDX5Twk5GMxziiJ0FHOWrEK8u6PoaX6DJy7zQ 

To make the envelope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGRC9I5cEs 

Happy Father’s Day! 

 

 

 

“Let’s make Heart and heal yourself & others” 

While staying at home and social distancing during this Covid-19 period, it is very vital for us to uplift our spirit and keep warming up our heart and relations to overcome the disease together. This time, for our Online Origami Club Activity, we choose to make Origami Heart and share it with your loved ones to cheer up and stay tight and strong. 

Some of us might know how to fold “Origami Heart” but for this time, let’s fold with our heart and love meaningfully! We have provided the different types of hearts so feel free to fold any heart you like. 

Please share your beautiful heart with us in the comment section until (1) June with the hashtag #OnlineOrigamiClubActivity #healyourself&others and let’s spread the love and warmth to all the people around us! We’ll make a slideshow video of all your work and share on our Facebook page. 

Required items: colored paper (width and length same size) 

See the tutorial videos at the links below. 

Easy Heart: https://en.origami-club.com/valentine/easyheart/index.html 

Heart: https://en.origami-club.com/valentine/heart/index.html 

Heart with wings : https://en.origami-club.com/valentine/wingheart/index.html

 

 

May 10 is known as “Mother’s Day” and in Japan people give flowers especially red carnations to their mothers to express the gratitude. We’d like to invite you to join our Online Origami Club Activity to celebrate Mother’s Day by doing Origami “Carnation Letter” with ‘thank you’ note attached. 

Share your Origami Carnation Letter with us in the comment section of this post with the hashtag #Mother’sDay #OnlineOrigamiActivity. Later, we would like to make a slide show video of your beautiful work.  

Please see the stages of making Origami carnation letter in the video of the link below. 

Required items: 15*15 cm red colored paper, 2.3*5.5 cm a small piece of paper, scissor, one A4 sheet to make the envelope 

If you don’t have red colored paper, you can use either wrapping paper of any color or use white paper and color with crayons. 

Let’s make our own customized carnation letter with utmost love and care for our beloved mother! Don’t forget to write the message in the envelope! 

Tutorial at :  

https://www.origami-club.com/mother/letter/video.html  

Happy Mother’s Day! 

 

 

Amabie Mascot Drawing Contest

In Japan Mascots are not only for charm character, they also serve as medium between Japan and the rest of the world. During this home stay period, “Amabie “ Yokai (mythological spirit or monster) has become popular in social network and media. According to the legend, “Amabie” has power to stop the pandemic, and people around the world are now draiwng its picture with their imagination and wish to get things back to normal. The Japan Foundation, Yangon would like to invite everyone to join in this Amabie Drawing Contest as an online community fun art activity while staying at home.

About The Contest

This contest is designated as online community fun art activity as one of the stay at home programs. To interact the community with art and to encourage the manga artists and the drawers during in this stay home period.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

1. Draw your own Amabie character either by hand-drawn, painted or digital illustrations.

2. Submit your Amabie drawing to messanger of Japan Foundation, Yangon, together with your name (artist’s name), title of your drawing (if you have), your e-mail, before 12 am on 20 May.

3. Please send only your own creation and appropriated Amabia Yokai art works otherwise we can not accept it.

4.We will upload the Amabie drawings of the contestants on our event page in a timely manner. The audience can come and have a look at the Amabie online exhibition by the contestants.

5.On 21 May, we will upload the poll and starting from that time, the audience can vote the drawing they like best. The deadline for voting is 9 am on 25 May.

6.Three Amabie drawings, which get the most votes, will be awarded E-Certificate of First, Second and Third Winner and rest of the candidate will receive E-certificate of participation.

7.We will announce the winners on 26 May on our Facebook page.

Examples art works on twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/amabie…

(Original Amabie picture used in the event photo is the sketch of Amabie from Shimbun Bunko (Shimbun Collection) and courtesy of the Main Library, Kyoto University.)

About the Amabie
The myth went back to 18th century, Amabie is one of yōkai and It is appeared in Higo no kuni, today’s Kumamoto prefecture, in 1846, when it was spotted by the town’s official. Amabie apparently told him that “Good harvests will continue for six years from the current year; if disease spreads, show a picture of me to those who fall ill and they will be cured.” This story was published with a sketch of Amabie in the woodblock bulletins that year. According to the legend, Amabie is a glowing green creature with fishy scales, long hair, beak and three fin-like legs. It can foresee the future and heal the diseases.Now, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan designated Amabie as a mascot to warn about the pandemic and #amabiechallenge on twitter – drawing the Amabie posting on social media is becomimg popular in respond to current covid-19.

Online Origami Club Activity

Let’s fold Kabuto (Samurai Helmet) with your kids and celebrate Kodomo no hi (Children’s Day)!

In Japan, May 5 is celebrated as Kodomo no hi (Children’s Day) and also known as Tango no Sekku (Boy’s Festival). In Edo period, when Shogun warrior had a new born baby boy, they celebrated for the healthy growth of boys on the 5th of May by raising flags. Also, nowadays, people in Japan celebrate and wish for the longevity and healthy growth of boys on 5 May. On that day, carp- shaped streamers called Koi-nobori, samurai warrior helmets called “Kabuto”, and samurai dolls called “Gogatsu Ningyou” are displayed in homes that have a boy.

The Japan Foundation, Yangon has been holding “Origami Club” monthly until March and it has become one of our most popular programs. Although we cannot make any public gathering for the time being, to celebrate the Children’s day, we have prepared an “Online Origami Club Activity” that everyone can join and participate at home by using easy items and we’d like to welcome everyone to join with us!

We have chosen “Kabuto Origami” (Samurai warrior helmet) which is quite easy to fold with either Newspaper, A4 paper or any paper. “Steps for how to fold” are shown in the tutorial in the YouTube link below.

Here are two steps to participate in our “Online Origami Club Activity”

(1) Fold Kabuto Origami by following the steps in the YouTube tutorial

(2) Post your photo with your Kabuto Origami in the comment section and by writing #OnlineOrigamiClubActivity #CelebrateKodomonohi

Required items to make Kabuto Origami

A4 paper or a large sheet of newspaper, scissor

To get a wearable size for the children, please use the newspaper.

Before folding, please make sure your paper is square-shaped (same length and width). Then, you can fold by watching the video.

Tutorial at: https://www.origami-club.com/fun/samuraihat3/video.html

Video courtesy by www.origami-club.com

新教材公開のお知らせ　

２０２０年３月３１日に日本語コースブック『いろどり　生活の日本語　初級１』『いろどり　生活の日本語　初級２』が公開されました。

（https://www.irodori.jpf.go.jp/）

これは外国の人が日本で生活や仕事をする際に必要となる、基礎的な日本語のコミュニケーション力を身につけるための教材です。インターネット上で公開されるこの教材はだれでも無料でダウンロードすることができます。ただこれは英語版ですので、ミャンマーの日本語学習者には少し使いにくいかもしれません。そこで国際交流基金ヤンゴン日本文化センターでは、『いろどり　生活の日本語　初級１』『いろどり　生活の日本語　初級２』のミャンマー語版を作成、製本し、各日本語教育機関に無料でお配りしたいと考えています。製本完成はいまのところ6月中を予定しています。

ဂျပန်ဘာသာသင်ထောက်ကူအသစ်အကြောင်း အသိပေးအကြောင်းကြားခြင်း

၂၀၂၀ ခုနှစ် မတ်လ ၃၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် ဂျပန်ဘာသာဖတ်စာအုပ်「いろどり生活の日本語初級１」「いろどり生活の日本語初級２」(Irodori seikatunonihongo shokyuu 1 & 2) ကိုဝက်ဆိုဒ်တွင်ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။ （https://www.irodori.jpf.go.jp/）
ထိုသင်ထောက်ကူသည် ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံတွင်သွားရောက် အလုပ်လုပ်မည့်နိုင်ငံခြားသားများအတွက် လုပ်ငန်းခွင်နှင့် နေ့စဉ် နေထိုင်မှုဘဝတွင် လိုအပ်သောအခြေခံဂျပန်ဘာသာစွမ်းရည်ကိုတိုးတက်လာရန်အတွက် အသုံးပြုနိုင်သော သင်ထောက်ကူဖြစ်ပါသည်။ အင်တာနက်စာမျက်နှာတွင်ဖော်ပြ
ထားသောထိုသင်ထောက်ကူကိုမည်သူမဆိုအခမဲ့ download လုပ်နိုင်ပါသည်။ သို့သော်ယခုသင်ထောက်ကူသည် အင်္ဂလိပ်
ဘာသာဖြစ်သောကြောင့်မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိဂျပန်ဘာသာလေ့လာသူများအတွက်အသုံးပြုရာတွင် အဆင်မပြေမှုများရှိနိုင်ပါသည်။
သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ ဂျပန်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းရန်ကုန် ဂျပန်ယဉ်ကျေးမှုစင်တာမှ 「いろどり生活の日本語初級１」「いろどり生活の日本語初級２」(Irodori seikatunonihongo shokyuu 1 & 2) ကိုမြန်မာဘာသာဖြင့်ထုတ်လုပ်ပြီး ဂျပန်ဘာသာသင်တန်းကျောင်းများသို့ အခမဲ့ပေးဝေသွားရန်စီစဉ်
ထားပါသည်။ မြန်မာဘာသာပြန်ဆိုထားသော စာအုပ်ကိုဇွန်လလယ်တွင် ပေးဝေနိုင်မည်ဟု ခန့်မှန်းထားပါသည်။

At the Japan Foundation Yangon, we have “Origami Club”, a regular monthly activity, where the people who are interested in Japanese origami and paper quilling can come and try new origami and paper folding methods.
This time, we will fold “Heart Waterfall Card” and “Origami Hand Bag”. People who love to do paper craft are very much welcome to join this event held in the Japan Foundation, Yangon. Join us to know how to make beautiful “heart waterfall card” and paper bag with easy items to give as presents to loved ones. Please register via Facebook messenger to join by dropping your name and phone number not later than 12 pm on 6 March.

Origami Club
Date : 7 March, 2020
Time : 1:30 pm ~ 3:30 pm
Place : Japan Foundation, Yangon, No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township.
Expected participants : 15 ppl (maximum)
Entry : free

The event has been cancelled due to the unexpected change of the schedule of our invited guest speakers. We apologise for any inconvenience and disappointment to those who had hoped to attend the events and who had already done the per-registered. We hope to see you again in our future event.

On this month of Saturday Yokeshin program, we will screen the “DAD’s LUNCH BOX”
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Story
The film adaptation of a true story which was re-Tweeted by 80,000 people and liked by 260,000 people on Twitter. At the helm is Fukatsu Masakazu, who have worked on music videos of andymori, ONE OK ROCK, among others.
Throughout the three years of high school, Midori (Takeda Rena) ate the bento lunch her dad (Watanabe Toshimi) made for her every single day. And in the very last bento of high school, Midori finds a photo of “the first high school bento” along with a hand written letter from her Dad.

About the event
TPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama is a space where people from various places in the world who are professionally involved in performing arts get together to exchange through diverse performance and meeting programs and gain information, inspiration and network for the creation, dissemination and vitalization of performing arts. Having celebrated the 20th anniversary, it is internationally recognised as one of the most influential performing arts platforms in Asia.
And this year, two of Myanmar Artists Yadanar Win and Khin Thet Htar Latt@ Nora, had join in TPAM 2020 and they will share their experiences and information throughout they gain in TPAM.
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Artist Bio
Yadanar Win
Yadanar Win is a performance, video, and installation artist based in Yangon. Her unique ability to seamlessly join her own body, to the document of her performance, and bring them together into an art object is reflective of her generation’s willingness to experiment with all mediums, and abandon the traditional painting and sculpture so common in the Myanmar art scene. For 9 years, she is working as an independent artist, cultural organizer and participated various cultural and art activities around several countries within Europe and Asia.
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Khin Thet Htar Latt @ Nora
Born and raised in Myanmar, Khin Thethtar Latt aka Nora ,she is a multimedia artist,started her art career in 2009. As a live performance artist, she participated in local and
international performance festivals venues have included 19th NIPPON INTERNATIONAL
performance Art Festival /Tokyo/Osaka and Stockholm independent art fair performance event.
She also participated in international art exhibitions including UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, India,
Malaysia, video Art forum in Saudi Arabia and DA international digital festival in sofia.
In 2015, she won -Young Talented program Solo exhibition in ION Art program in
Singapore. In 2019, she participated in Art in Residency Program in Sweden. Currently based in
Yangon and Dawei and developing art community project
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Date: 24.02.2020
Time: 6 to 8 PM
Language: English
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Yangon