JAPANESE COMMUNITY
......the Japanese community is a growing community in the Greater Battle Creek area. A small 2% of the apprx. 54,000 residents living in Battle Creek are Japanese. From schools, restaurants and industries....many Japanese have found Battle Creek, Michigan a place to call Home. www.battlecreekdiversity.com has located a correspondent that shortly keep us up to pace with news, events and the growing population of the Japanese community living in Battle Creek area.
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Yukiko Tanaka is a native of Japan and currently lives in New York. She she is a concert pianist and has been performing internationally since 2005. Her profile and other information about her can be accessed in English at www.snowinthefield.com
LATEST NEWS FOR JAPANESE COMMUNITY
Gus Foster & Ando Hiroshige: The Tokaido Road
This exhibition features a collection of 19th-century woodblock prints by Ando Hiroshige along with large-scale panoramic photographs by contemporaryartist Gus Foster, both showing the Tokaido Road, a major coastal road which starts in the Tokyo area and runs along the coast toward Osaka. Free drop-inguided tours every Thursday (noon-1 p.m.) and Sunday (2-3 p.m.).
Exhibition ends December 2
Lecture by Denise Lisiecki: Japanese Influences, 12:15 p.m., Tuesday, November 27Silk Road to Clipper Ship: Trade, Changing Markets and East Asian Ceramics This exhibition illustrates the important role of foreign trade and changingdomestic markets in stimulating Chinese potters, and their counterparts inJapan and Korea, to continually reinvent their repertoire of shapes anddecorative techniques. Includes 60 ceramic works dating from the 2nd through the 20th centuries. Free drop-in guided tours every Thursday (noon-1 p.m.) and Sunday (2-3 p.m.). Exhibition ends November 25
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Museum
314 South Park Street, Kalamazoo
Phone: 269.349.7775
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sunday Noon - 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays and major holidays
Admission for most exhibitions and events is FREE
International Relations Committee - was authorized and established in Battle Creek by resolution No. 305, and adopted on October 28th 1975. This was appointed by the Mayor with the approval of a majority vote of the City Commission. The purpose of the committee is to foter cultural promotion of the City and provide a positive environment toward foreign industrialists and their families.
- Cheryl Beard, Battle Creek Unlimited, 12/31/08
- Sheila Crawford, 245 Brentwood Drive, 12/31/08
- Gregory Moore, 247 Trickovic Lane, 12/31/08
- Sumako Nebel, 242 Sherwood Drive, 12/31/08
- Michelle Reen, City of Battle Creek, 12/31/08
- Ken Tsuchiyama, City of Battle Creek, 12/31/08
HAP KI DO INTERNATIONAL COMING TO BC IN 2010 click here for more information SOUTH KOREAN COMMMUNITY
The Korean Population in Battle Creek, Michigan may appear negligible, but it is significant. Many may correlate the Korean presence from the few beauty shops in the area, however, other areas of interest are present, such as the new Korean Martial Arts Hap Ki Do School in Battle Creek teaching students self confidence, self discipline, self improvement, and self control, through the Hap Ki Do Martial Arts School of Self Defense. battlecreekdiversity will soon interview Grand Master Hee Kwan Lee, 8th Degree Black Belt as he will share with us living in Battle Creek and the Korean Martial Arts Hap Ke Do School. 
Grand Master Hee Kwan Lee will take 39 students to South Korea for the International Hap Ke Do Championship Games, click here for more info
Battle Creek will host the 2010 International Hap Ki Do Championships
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Battle Creek-based Korean Martial Arts LLC brought home quite a bit from their trip to South Korea for the Tri-Annual Hap Ki Do International Championships this week. The school returned home with a first place showing in the group competition. They also got word that Battle Creek would receive the bid to host the 2010 International Championships, marking the first time the event will be held outside of South Korea. "We already kind of knew it, but this was official and the flag was raised," said Bob Schreiner, the school's head instructor and a fifth-degree master, when a flag was raised at the recent event in South Korea denoting the winning bid. "It's going to take a lot of help from the city and everything. The people we need to run and organize the event is going to be a huge accomplishment alone." Kellogg Arena would seem to be an ideal place to hold the 2010 Championships, but no venue has yet been picked. "I think what it shows is Battle Creek is a very good site to run large events with all kinds of interesting scopes — from baseball to Hap Ki Do," said Larry Wegener of Battle Creek Sports Promotion. "I think it will be an organizational challenge. You'll have some language barriers with people coming that speak Korean. It will be an international event and probably be the biggest event we've ever hosted." There are going to be many questions leading up to 2010, including how the Cereal City could handle the influx of international competitors and the 10,000 visitors the tournament would bring. Those issues aside, the tournament could give quite a boost to the local economy. Battle Creek Unlimited provided Korean Martial Arts LLC with financial estimates that showed the tournament would bring around $3 million into the community. As far as this past week's competition, the Battle Creek school made quite a showing at the event that had over 17,000 people from 50 countries. Katie Lee got a bronze medal in the kicking competition, while Shon Nelson silvered in kicking. Eric Hiner took gold in the long jumping (jumping over a number pads that resemble people). The tandem of Alex Lee and Jared Burdette silvered in self defense competition, while the duo of Dean Wainright and Heather Holmes took bronze in self defense competition. Korean Martial Arts LLC also took a second team to the competition, which received special recognition from the federation because of how diverse they were. "It was an awesome experience. Our students performed, and for us to walk away with the gold medal is just outstanding," Schreiner said. "It was the first time USA was represented there and I think we did the country proud." |
