Kristy Oshiro

Come and try your hand at the powerful art of taiko! Beginning with the story of the creation of the very first taiko featuring two goddesses, and then moving to a more interactive workshop format, this program will give youth of all genders an opportunity to experience the empowerment that comes with getting to play the drums themselves.

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself! 

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself! 

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself! 

Come and try your hand at the powerful art of taiko! Designed for preschool and elementary school students, this 30-minute workshop will cover basic rhythms and some Japanese language and give the youth an opportunity to experience the empowerment that comes with getting to play the drums themselves.

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself! 

Come and try your hand at the powerful art of taiko! Beginning with the story of the creation of the very first taiko featuring two goddesses, and then moving to a more interactive workshop format, this program will give youth of all genders an opportunity to experience the empowerment that comes with getting to play the drums themselves.

Private Event

This is a free collaborative event between many Queer and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander organizations in the Bay Area. The gathering is free and actually goes from 5:30-8:30pm. It will feature breakout sessions led by community members and arts performances by groups like Queer Taiko.

Description: Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

This is a fundraiser event for Placer Ume Taiko. Breakfast service starts from 8:30am, taiko performance starts at 9am, everyone is welcome to stay for the temple service at 10am.

Menu: Pancakes, scrambled eggs, FRIED RICE, sausage or spam, fresh fruit, juice, coffee, hot cocoa.

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Private Event

Private Event

Conceptualized by composer and artistic director Lenny Seidman, ARC is an original evening length performance suite presented at Swarthmore College on October 5th that brings together the drumming traditions of tabla from North India and taiko from Japan, with contemporary Western, African Diasporic, and Southeast Asian dance. The cast consists of three tabla players, Lenny Seidman, Jonathan Marmor, and Daniel Scholnick, three taiko players, Joe Small, Isaku Kageyama and Kristy Oshiro, and three choreographers/dancers, Laurel Jenkins, Ani Gavino and Orlando Hunter. ARC has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Performers age 3 to adult will be performing!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Tickets on sale now at Richmond Senior Center: 2525 MacDonald Ave, (510) 307-8087

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Featuring Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka and the San Francisco Taiko Dojo

Sacramento Taiko Dan

Special guests from Japan: Yasuhide Tanaka (from Wako Daiko)

Special guests: Shogo Yamada & Yamasho KaI

Tickets on sale now!

$35 general, $30 for seniors and students

Come see us on the Women's Stage at 2:40 pm!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

I will be performing along with San Mateo Buddhist Temple Taiko at the San Mateo Buddhist Temple annual bazaar!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

For tickets visit: http://sacredcityderbygirls.com/

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Featuring Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka and the San Francisco Taiko Dojo.

Special Guests
Maikaze Daiko
Kristy Oshiro - taiko
Kyle Abbott - shamisen

Buy tickets here.

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Breakfast starts at 8:30 am, taiko performance at 9:15. Open to the public!

A fun and educational family program for all ages. Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You will even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Private performance for residents.

For more information visit www.artsmu.com

info about tickets: remi_japon@yahoo.fr

Taikoza is presenting their exciting and electrifying program, Voice of the Earth, with their Big Drums, powerful rhythms and room thumping energy. It will feature the enormous ancestral Taiko drums, colorful dances and soulful melodies of the Shakuhachi flute. Guest artist from Japan: Jishoya Ichiro Ensemble, will bring their artistry from across the oceans to this wonderful program. Taikoza’s shows are immensely popular with all ages and promises to be a fun filled evening. Taikoza.com for videos, CD and music. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Nominated Best Asian Ethnic Album for the JPF Music Award. Taikoza featured on Nintendo wii game: Red Steel

Tickets: Taikoza.com or Call: 866-811-4111 9AM-9PM

Taikoza.com | marcolienhard.com, for more info: Taikoza@gmail.com

Taikoza is presenting their exciting and electrifying program, Voice of the Earth, with their Big Drums, powerful rhythms and room thumping energy. It will feature the enormous ancestral Taiko drums, colorful dances and soulful melodies of the Shakuhachi flute. Guest artist from Japan: Jishoya Ichiro Ensemble, will bring their artistry from across the oceans to this wonderful program. Taikoza’s shows are immensely popular with all ages and promises to be a fun filled evening. Taikoza.com for videos, CD and music. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Nominated Best Asian Ethnic Album for the JPF Music Award. Taikoza featured on Nintendo wii game: Red Steel

Tickets: Taikoza.com or Call: 866-811-4111 9AM-9PM

Taikoza.com | marcolienhard.com, for more info: Taikoza@gmail.com

Come and support the Sacred City Derby Girls and enjoy a short halftime show by me and my students from all around the area! I'm hoping to have a large group of performers! Tickets available here: http://sacredcityderbygirls.com/bouts/donna-party-vs-roseville-trainwreckers-2/

Come and support Placer Ume Taiko at the Placer Buddhist Church Bazaar! Just some of the delicious foods that can be found there include teriyaki chicken, tempura, sushi, beef skewers, manju and other Japanese sweets, and beer for the adults. Games for the kids and even bingo with prizes! Taiko performances are on Saturday at 12pm and 4pm, and on Sunday at 1pm and 3pm.

Come and support Placer Ume Taiko at the Placer Buddhist Church Bazaar! Just some of the delicious foods that can be found there include teriyaki chicken, tempura, sushi, beef skewers, manju and other Japanese sweets, and beer for the adults. Games for the kids and even bingo with prizes! Taiko performances are on Saturday at 12pm and 4pm, and on Sunday at 1pm and 3pm.

Co-Presented by Bruce 'Mui' Ghent,
"SPALL FRAGMENTS: Taiko Drum-Dance Action-Adventure for the 21st Century" explodes out of choreographer Joe Small‘s often surreal encounters with hypermasculine traits of ‘power’ (size, speed, strength, and aggression) surrounding the physically dynamic, pulse-pounding art of contemporary Japanese taiko drumming.

Through a bombastic mix of high-precision taiko drumming, dance, and serio-comic theatre, Small and the cast (Vivian Lee, Yeeman Mui, Kristy Oshiro, David Wells, and special guest artist Bruce Mui Ghent) launch critical and self-conscious inquiries into the interconnectivity between hierarchical systems of aggression; the media’s influence on creating 'tradition' and the reinforcing self-exoticizing Orientalist stereotypes; the harrowing fall-out from masculine trauma-bonding and rage; and the existential lunacy of sacrificing one’s body-mind-cultural identity to survive Taiko drumming's historically Japanese contexts and its globalized, transnational present.

SPALL FRAGMENTS will be performed twice in San Francisco at
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
on
Saturday July 23, 2016 at 8:00 PM, and
Sunday, July 24 2016 at 6:00 PM

For more information, please visit
http://www.dancemission.com/performances/upcoming.html

Tickets: General Admission $25, in Advance $20
For ticket reservations, please call:
1-800-838-3006
or visit the ticket URL at
http://spallfragments.bpt.me/

SPALL FRAGMENTS is co-sponsored by Asano Taiko US (http://asano.us/), the American branch of Asano Taiko Company, Ltd., handcrafters of traditional Japanese drums and festival instruments since 1609.

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For LOS ANGELES performance information:

SPALL FRAGMENTS will be performed the weekend prior at Highways Performing Space at 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, on Friday, July 15 2016, and Saturday, July 16 2016. Both shows performances at 8:30 PM.

For more information, please follow our event link at https://www.facebook.com/events/650509935102507/

Co-Presented by Bruce 'Mui' Ghent,
"SPALL FRAGMENTS: Taiko Drum-Dance Action-Adventure for the 21st Century" explodes out of choreographer Joe Small‘s often surreal encounters with hypermasculine traits of ‘power’ (size, speed, strength, and aggression) surrounding the physically dynamic, pulse-pounding art of contemporary Japanese taiko drumming.

Through a bombastic mix of high-precision taiko drumming, dance, and serio-comic theatre, Small and the cast (Vivian Lee, Yeeman Mui, Kristy Oshiro, David Wells, and special guest artist Bruce Mui Ghent) launch critical and self-conscious inquiries into the interconnectivity between hierarchical systems of aggression; the media’s influence on creating 'tradition' and the reinforcing self-exoticizing Orientalist stereotypes; the harrowing fall-out from masculine trauma-bonding and rage; and the existential lunacy of sacrificing one’s body-mind-cultural identity to survive Taiko drumming's historically Japanese contexts and its globalized, transnational present.

SPALL FRAGMENTS will be performed twice in San Francisco at
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
on
Saturday July 23, 2016 at 8:00 PM, and
Sunday, July 24 2016 at 6:00 PM

For more information, please visit
http://www.dancemission.com/performances/upcoming.html

Tickets: General Admission $25, in Advance $20
For ticket reservations, please call:
1-800-838-3006
or visit the ticket URL at
http://spallfragments.bpt.me/

SPALL FRAGMENTS is co-sponsored by Asano Taiko US (http://asano.us/), the American branch of Asano Taiko Company, Ltd., handcrafters of traditional Japanese drums and festival instruments since 1609.

______________________________________________
For LOS ANGELES performance information:

SPALL FRAGMENTS will be performed the weekend prior at Highways Performing Space at 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, on Friday, July 15 2016, and Saturday, July 16 2016. Both shows performances at 8:30 PM.

For more information, please follow our event link at https://www.facebook.com/events/650509935102507/

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Presented by Highways Performance Space, Artistic Directors Leo Garcia and Patrick Kennelly,
"SPALL FRAGMENTS: Taiko Drum-Dance Action-Adventure for the 21st Century" explodes out of choreographer Joe Small‘s often surreal encounters with hypermasculine traits of ‘power’ (size, speed, strength, and aggression) surrounding the physically dynamic, pulse-pounding art of contemporary Japanese taiko drumming.

Through a bombastic mix of high-precision taiko drumming, dance, and serio-comic theatre, Small and the cast (Vivian Lee, Yeeman Mui, Kristy Oshiro, David Wells, and special guest artist Bruce Mui Ghent) launch critical and self-conscious inquiries into the interconnectivity between hierarchical systems of aggression; the media’s influence on creating 'tradition' and the reinforcing self-exoticizing Orientalist stereotypes; the harrowing fall-out from masculine trauma-bonding and rage; and the existential lunacy of sacrificing one’s body-mind-cultural identity to survive Taiko drumming's historically Japanese contexts and its globalized, transnational present.

SPALL FRAGMENTS will be performed twice at
Highways Performing Space at 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404
on
Friday, July 15, 2016. Start Time 8:30 PM
and
Saturday July 16, 2016. Start Time 8:30 PM

For more information, please visit
http://highwaysperformance.org/highways/event/joe-small-spall-fragments/

Tickets: General Admission $20, Student/Senior $15
For ticket reservations, please call
(310) 315-1459
or visit the ticket URL at
https://ww04.elbowspace.com/secure/20060523121621515002

Tickets also available 30 minutes prior to showtime at the door.

SPALL FRAGMENTS is co-sponsored by Asano Taiko US (http://asano.us/), the American branch of Asano Taiko Company, Ltd., handcrafters of traditional Japanese drums and festival instruments since 1609.

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For information regarding SPALL FRAGMENTS performances the following weekend in SAN FRANCISCO, CA:
Please go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1739780319577960/
SPALL FRAGMENTS will be performed twice in San Francisco at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
on
Saturday July 23, 2016 at 8:00 PM, and
Sunday, July 24 2016 at 6:00 PM

Presented by Highways Performance Space, Artistic Directors Leo Garcia and Patrick Kennelly,
"SPALL FRAGMENTS: Taiko Drum-Dance Action-Adventure for the 21st Century" explodes out of choreographer Joe Small‘s often surreal encounters with hypermasculine traits of ‘power’ (size, speed, strength, and aggression) surrounding the physically dynamic, pulse-pounding art of contemporary Japanese taiko drumming.

Through a bombastic mix of high-precision taiko drumming, dance, and serio-comic theatre, Small and the cast (Vivian Lee, Yeeman Mui, Kristy Oshiro, David Wells, and special guest artist Bruce Mui Ghent) launch critical and self-conscious inquiries into the interconnectivity between hierarchical systems of aggression; the media’s influence on creating 'tradition' and the reinforcing self-exoticizing Orientalist stereotypes; the harrowing fall-out from masculine trauma-bonding and rage; and the existential lunacy of sacrificing one’s body-mind-cultural identity to survive Taiko drumming's historically Japanese contexts and its globalized, transnational present.

SPALL FRAGMENTS will be performed twice at
Highways Performing Space at 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404
on
Friday, July 15, 2016. Start Time 8:30 PM
and
Saturday July 16, 2016. Start Time 8:30 PM

For more information, please visit
http://highwaysperformance.org/highways/event/joe-small-spall-fragments/

Tickets: General Admission $20, Student/Senior $15
For ticket reservations, please call
(310) 315-1459
or visit the ticket URL at
https://ww04.elbowspace.com/secure/20060523121621515002

Tickets also available 30 minutes prior to showtime at the door.

SPALL FRAGMENTS is co-sponsored by Asano Taiko US (http://asano.us/), the American branch of Asano Taiko Company, Ltd., handcrafters of traditional Japanese drums and festival instruments since 1609.

________________________________________
For information regarding SPALL FRAGMENTS performances the following weekend in SAN FRANCISCO, CA:
Please go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1739780319577960/
SPALL FRAGMENTS will be performed twice in San Francisco at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
on
Saturday July 23, 2016 at 8:00 PM, and
Sunday, July 24 2016 at 6:00 PM

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and support Placer Ume Taiko by enjoying a wonderful breakfast of pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, spam, fried rice, fresh fruit, and a very special performance by Placer Ume Taiko. We will be debuting a brand new piece inspired by the flowers of spring.

Buy tickets online at http://www.pensacolastate.edu/mt

Special Guest Performers: Kristy Oshiro & Dawn Nakamura!Tickets are available at the door. Come early for good seats.

Both performances on this day will be completely different so stay for both and enjoy the wonderful food!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Come and learn about the Japanese art of taiko! Feel the thunderous sounds of the drums vibrating through your body as language, culture, and history combine into an exciting educational experience. You may even get a chance to play the drums yourself!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Naoko Amemiya and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Time TBA.

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Come out and support Placer Ume Taiko by enjoyed a delicious pancake breakfast and energizing taiko performance. Breakfast will be served from 8:30-10 am and the taiko performance will start at 9:15 am. The fried rice here is THE BEST. Seriously.

Breakfast Menu:
Pancakes
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage or Spam
Fried Rice
Fresh Fruit
Juice
Coffee, Tea, Hot Cocoa

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

 Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Free taiko performance with Kristy Oshiro and Bruce "Mui" Ghent. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Dance Mission & The SF World Percussion Arts Festival Presents "Taiko For Tomorrow", A Benefit Concert for San Francisco Taiko Dojo featuring NEA Heritage Fellow, Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka and the SF Taiko Dojo, Shogo Yamada, Tiffany Tamaribuchi & Sacramento Taiko Dan, Maikaze Daiko, Duniya Dance & Drum Company, Shakuhachi Artist-Philip Gelb, GRRRL Brigade and more.

Tickets available at: http://taikofortomorrow.bpt.me/

Special guest artist Yukiyo Takaishi. Come by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Special guest artist Kris Marubayashi on tsugaru shamisen and taiko!  Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Photo Credit: Katharine Govea Saunders

Featuring virtuoso artists: Marco Lienhard, Michiyo Koga, & Kristy Oshiro

East Winds Inc. presents a unique concert by three amazing masters of Japanese music Marco Lienhard, Michiyo Koga, and Kristy Oshiro. An afternoon of Shakuhachi, Koto and Taiko that will dazzle your senses. A concert of timeless Japanese music that you will not want to miss. The concert will include traditional as well as modern compositions.

Tickets available from Kristy Oshiro, at SJUMC, at shakuhachikoto.brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006    

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Stop Hunger Now.

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring Bruce "Mui" Ghent and Kristy Oshiro. Stop by after work and enjoy a cocktail and a great free show!

Featuring special guests: Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka, Toshiye Kawamura & Sakura Minyo DooKoo Kai

Advance tickets available from Kristy Oshiro, Oto's Marketplace, and Osaka-Ya. Tickets are also available at the door for $25.

With special guest: Kristi Tsukida

Performing with special guest Rayray Ebora!