As part of Pensacola’s inaugural Foo Foo Festival, the Japan-America Society of Northwest Florida will present the 2014 Japanese Film Festival on November 14, 15 and 16. Each day will be located at a different venue and will showcase a different aspect of contemporary Japanese cinema. Admission is free on all three days. With seven…
The Summer/Fall 2014 edition of “Hamakaze” (or “The Sea Breeze”), the newsletter of the Japan-America Society of Northwest Florida, has just been released. Topics covered in this issue: Events to Tie Our Community: Bon Fest & Film Festival Sister City Gero Donated $12,837 to City of Pensacola for the April Flooding Relief Shinji Nagashima, the…
The Japan-America Society of Northwest Florida will usher in the “Year of the Horse” with its 21st annual Japanese New Year Celebration on Saturday, January 25, 2014, at the Bayview Community Center in Pensacola. Festivities will take place from 12 noon until 4 p.m. and will include performances by the popular Matsuriza taiko drummers, martial…
Michael Conrad is the 2012-2013 president of the First City Art Center board of directors. Since college, I have had a keen interest in non-mainstream movies. My roommate was the campus projectionist, and he would allow me to sit with him and watch some of the most obscure movies that had been made in the…