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Festival Forum at Japantown TODAY! Enjoy free performances, booths, screenings, and more!

Posted March 14, 2009 by vicciho in Festival

Festival Forum
Saturday March 14, 2009
12:00 – 9:30pm
Japan Peace Plaza

The SFIAAFF is thrilled to announce the return of Festival Forum, a day-long fair of in the Japantown Peace Plaza! Enjoy the festival in a whole new way with music and dance performances, interactive activities, and free screenings!

Presented in conjunction with the Festival’s usual offerings of film screenings, the Festival Forum will feature a Japanese-American bluegrass guitarist, a Brazilian drum ensemble, rock bands and breakdancers performing live on stage, as well as booths with interactive experiences via social networking websites. Two winners from the Festival’s annual Do-It-Yourself Music Video contest, provided by Locus at KSW, will be screening at the Plaza, and the ever-popular Festival program Music Videos Asia will return as a free screening in the Plaza, followed by a presentation of the wacky Japanese film, BIG MAN JAPAN!!!!

Programs include:
Eth-noh-tec: Asian American Kinetic Story Performance
Live Music Performances by:
Jane Lui
Toshio Hirano
Sambasia
Goh Nakamura
Cast of Thousands
MUD
Dance Performance by Hung Dynasty
Free Outdoor Screening of Hitoshi Matsumoto’s BIG MAN JAPAN (Dainipponjin, Japan, 2007) at 8pm.

Tags: festival forum, film, japantown, music, performance

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