Promoting Indonesian Culture with Angklung Performances

April 10, 2019January 27, 2020

Angklung is a traditional musical instrument originated from West Java, Indonesia. It is popular throughout the world and it has been played for centuries. To be able to play this angklung, we just use one hand to hold the base of the instrument and use other hand to shake to produce a sound repeatedly. Typically each performer only responsible to just one pitch individual angklung. Because of this reason, playing angklung in orchestra will absolutely need excellent coordination and team work. Here we presented angklung performances in various event around Ishikawa and also the neighbour Toyama Prefecture.

Talking About Islam in Kanazawa Hokuriku English Speaker

December 3, 2018December 3, 2018Leave a comment

お越し頂きありがとうございました. Thanks to everyone who attended the “Kanazawa plus Hokuriku English Speakers” 100 yen English Chat and Friendship event on Friday, November 2nd. Thanks especially to Dian, from the “Ishikawa Muslim Society” (and her husband and two children) who kindly gave a presentation about Islam (see PDF file below). About 35 people attended (including 9 international attendees from Austria (x1), Germany (x1), Indonesia (x5), Ireland (x1), the UK (x1), and the USA (x1). The next English Chat and Friendship event will take place next week on Friday, December 7th (see the event information below). Everyone is welcome to attend. New people and international attendees (including tourists) are especially welcome (also see comments area) (コメント欄もご覧下さい).

Above text is a public post by Mr. Senan Fox in the mentioned SNS group. He also put all the slide pictures in the comments area. I feel so happy, and inshaAllah I would make more prayers for them. It was our first seminar talking about Islam. Mr. Senan Fox, the organizer, contacted us through email and asked us to come as a guest speaker. In the beginning I thought that the member of this group are mostly foreigners, but just few days before the event, he informed about the participants will be mostly Japanese. Realizing this fact, I made major changes to the materials I have prepared before. Instead of explaining about Islam in Japan, I decided to emphasize more on the basic of Islamic teaching, the tawheed. Hope to meet them again and even more people in the near future events.

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[Taking pictures with all participants. Picture taken by Mr. Senan Fox]

[Warm discussion about Islam related topic]

[Presenter view, they were listening the translator explanations]

Photography and Sewing Session with Sister Nita and Sister Dian

November 22, 2018November 4, 2019Leave a comment

A sharing session about photography and basic sewing skill was held last Saturday (November 17). It is an open event for all sisters regardless their origin country, as we provided translation support. Sister Nita shared about how to obtain a good picture, including the basic rules, framing, patterns, and some other parameters. We should also consider about the copyright or permission before uploading any pictures in the social media. Here we presented the presentation materials from sister Nita so the reader could also benefit from it. Please refer to this download link.

Second session is from sister Dian, a mother of two children living in Nomi city. She started with sewing machine introduction, followed by making some cute baby bibs. See you again in the next event inshaAllah.