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Title: NetTokyo Fundraising Event / Networking Event
Location: Monsoon Cafe Daikanyama
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2009-07-11
On July 11, NetTokyo will be celebrating its 5th Anniversary at its annual fundraising event. The location is one of my favorite spots, Monsoon Cafe in Daikanyama!
The event kicks off at 14:00 and continues till 18:00 so there’s four hours to mingle and get to know each other. If people want to continue after 18:00 then of course that’s up to you.
The cost is 4,000 JPY per person if you pay in advance. On the day it will cost 5,000 JPY per person. Cost includes 1 drink and light snacks.
There are advantages to booking early – you’ll receive 5 extra raffle tickets for the grand prize draw. More chances of winning!
All profits on the day go to a range of charities supported by the event, including Room to Read, Tokyo 2016 Supporters Club, and The Hamigaki Project.
Please do RSVP if you are going to attend. It makes it much easier to organize and make sure there’s enough food to go round – very important. Visit NetTokyo to sign up and book your place.
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Title: Summer Sonic Music Festival 2009 – 10th Anniversary!
Location: Tokyo Chiba Marine Stadium & Makuhari Messe
Link out: Click here
Description: Summer Sonic Music Festival
Start Date: 2009-08-07
End Date: 2009-08-09
The Summer Sonic music festival is now split between Tokyo and Osaka so you can choose the location that is easiest for you. Tickets are slightly more expensive in Tokyo as follows:
Tokyo: 3 day ticket 39,500 JPY including tax
Osaka: 3 day ticket 37,000 JPY including tax
Tokyo: 1 day ticket on August 7 – 14,000 JPY incl. tax, August 8 and 9 – 15,000 JPY incl. tax.
Osaka: 1 day ticket on August 7 – 13,000 JPY incl. tax, August 8 and 9 – 14,000 JPY incl. tax.
This is another musical extravaganza which has, some say, become more popular than Fuji Rock Festival – partly because of the central location which makes it more accessible to more people.
Personally I still love Fuji Rock and the chance to head to the hills ^_^
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If you love music and you love summer, Fuji Rock Festival is a fantastic venue.
It’s set in the mountains in the countryside and is a real chance to escape the regular routine and really get lost in some live music. I love it!
If you want to attend all 3 days there is a camping ground where you can pitch your tent (cost is 3,000 JPY for the duration of the festival) and not too far away you’ll find local onsens (hot springs) so you can avoid that horrible icky feeling that often goes with the 3 day events like these.
3 day tickets cost 39,800 JPY per person
1 day tickets cost 16,800 JPY per person (these are limited to a maximum of 10,000 people per day).
Please note, camping, car and any other costs involved with the festival must be purchased at the same time as your festival ticket.
Follow this link for directions on how to get to the Festival site.
There is a free shuttle bus that connects Echigo-Yuzawa station with the Fuji Rock Festival site so its easy to get to. There’s also a car park which costs 3,000 JPY per car, per day for 2+ people.
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Title: Celebrate Independence Day!
Location: Solfa in Nakameguro
Link out: Celebrate Independence Day
Start Date: 2009-07-04
Start Time: 22:00
End Date: 2009-07-05
Celebrate Independence Day – and Night : ) – at Solfa in Nakameguro!
The party kicks off at 22:00 on Saturday July 4 and continues through till 5 am so there’s plenty of time for dancing.
Entry is 2,500 JPY which includes 1 drink.
The line up is impressive with the following Artists all taking the floor:
Jay Zimmermann [red melon]
Hideyuki Ozaki [nest]
Yasuharu Motomiya [nordform]
Gelman [glmn studios]
Bob Rogue [miniscule.tv / variance]
Smidj
Not a bad way to celebrate your independence!
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Title: FEW Networking Meeting (women only)
Location: Tokyo City Club, Canadian Embassy
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-07-09
Price: 3000 yen for members and 6000 yen for guests
How to be published in Japan: Tips and Tricks for Writers of Books and Articles
Cindy Mullins will address how to get a book published in Japan. Cindy will explain the book publishing process, how to woo agents and publishers by writing a killer book proposal that will grab their attention. She will also talk about ‘Priorities, Passion, and Publishing: The Secret Formula for Creating a Best-selling Book or Successful Career’.
Hugh Ashton will tell us about independent publishing. He will concentrate on the process of self-publishing via the online PoD service route, rather than the ‘print it yourself and get a crate of sliced dead trees’ approach. Kathleen Morikawa covers this approach excellently in her book, ‘Self Publishing in Japan: What You Need to Get Started’:http://tinyurl.com/qxc721
Miki Noguchi will discuss freelance writing in Tokyo: how to get articles published in magazines, print or online. She will explain how you’ve gotta hustle because it’s all about making contacts.
So, if you’ve ever had dreams of becoming a published writer of books or articles, we’ll see you there.
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Title: Pink Cow Connections
Location: Pink Cow Shibuya
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-07-02
WorkVitamins, Bringing Perspective to the Office
“Maximizing your working environment assets. Productive spaces to improve your business.”
Speaker: Martin van der Linden
Anyone who has worked for a typical Japanese corporation has horror stories to tell about the workplace. The rows and rows of small, steel desks with files and paper stacked above and below, the colour tones of Stalinist grey evenly distributed throughout the whole space except for the yellow smoking room , the artistic coffee stains on the carpet, the direct translation of the company’s hierarchy onto the design (buchos on the window, kachos on the end of each row, last hire at the end of the row), the blinds that are consistently closed and despite the top location of the office allow no views outside, etc.. etc… Is it any wonder that Japan has one of the world’s highest suicide rates?
Studies have shown that the work environment has a significant influence on our well being. The work environment is business’ last frontier, as companies should stop to treat their work space as a warehouse crammed with stuff and staff. It is time to view the work environment as a powerful motivational tool to create a place where people enjoy working in, encourages communication and team work.
The workplace can either hinder or encourage this.
During the presentation Martin will show an analysis of a typical office and the potential for change. He will explain about the methodology he created called WorkVitamins, which through a series of 5 steps has helped his clients to implement a work environment where work can actually be fun. At the end of the presentation he will also briefly discuss a book he is writing on the subject, including the growing influence that the internet has on our rapidly changing definition of what work is.
Martin has taught and practiced architecture and design in Japan since the early 1990s. He is chief executive of van der Architects, a design and project management firm he set up in 2000, and an adjunct professor of architecture at Tokyo University of Science. His clients include Fortune 500 companies such as Ernst & Young, ING Group, Societe Generale and WPP Group.
Martin has designed and planned at several leading offices including Hiroshi Hara + Atelier, where he worked on JR Kyoto Station and Osaka’s Umeda Sky Building, Cesar Pelli & Associates and Kyoiku Shisetsu Kenkyujo. He lectured at the universities of Musashino Art, Waseda and the United Nations, and also spent time at the Bureau for Architecture and Urban Design in London.
His professional affiliations include membership of the Architects Institute of Japan as well as board memberships of the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in Japan and the American Institute of Architects Japan.
A Dutch national, Martin has an MSc in Engineering Product Design from London’s Southbank University and a BSc in Interior and Industrial Design from the Academy of Fine Art Maastricht. He also was a visiting student on the Fuji-Hara Laboratory master’s course at Tokyo University.
2,000yen includes light snacks
Registration helpful but not required.
Please RSVP at one of the following:
http://www.meetup.com/pinkcowconnections/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=72101140281
Email: ajblick (at) gmail (dot) com
Live webcast if you can’t join us at: The Pink Cow Livestream
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Title: July B-B-Q Party
Location: Pink Cow Shibuya
Description: 4th of July BBQ Party
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-07-04
This is a special order dinner so please RSVP to make sure you get in at
cowmail@thepinkcow.com
U.S.A Independence Day and Obama’s 166th Day in Office Celebration! Join us in what is sure to be a rockin’ fun night of festivities with awesome, finger lickin’ food!
Featuring:
*Special Guest DJs to Spin some Classic American Rock Tunes
*Live Classic Rock and Funky Grooves with the Slamiin’ Band Ali-Mo!
*Chef Andy’s Buffet Menu with All American favorites! Some of the featured dishes:
-B-B-Q Chicken
-Sliced Roast Beef
-Lemon Butter Grilled Fresh Fish
-Spicy Fried Chicken
-Cole Slaw Salad
-Macaroni Salad
-Potato Salad
-Spinach, Chive and Sour Cream Bread Dip
-Classic Party Cheese Ball
-Apple Pie
-Peach Cobler
7:00-10pm 3,000yen entry includes supper yummy B-B-Q style buffet dinner!
After 10pm, drinks only OK.
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Title: Fruits In Suits
Location: Pink Cow Shibuya
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-07-07
Fruits in Suits is a once a month social networking function for gainfully employed Gays & Lesbians in Tokyo to make connections and friends. For details on our latest events, to network with others or to eat, drink, discuss current topics, join our facebook group.
Email: tokyo.fruits (at) gmail (dot) com
Please spread the word and bring friends!
7pm – NO CHARGE!
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Title: Don’s Half-fast Bike Night
Location: Pink Cow Shibuya
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-07-08
Bike Night with the Half-fast Cyclists:
If you travel on two non-motorized wheels in this city, whether those wheels are mountain, road, recumbent, mama-chari or any combination thereof, you’re invited to the continuing meetings of the Half-fast Cyclists. Share your experience and experiences, meet other cyclists, arrange rides & races, trade stuff, learn stuff, join a club, and of course quaff a few beers or grab some grub. Ride your bike! halffastcycling@hotmail.com
From 7 or 8pm, or whenever they show up – NO CHARGE!
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Title: Middle Eastern Buffet!
Location: Pink Cow Shibuya
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-07-10
RSVP (dinner bookings only): Simone – simonegoldsmith (at) gmail (dot) com by Sunday,
July 5th.
FARE FOR US, FAIR FOR THEM
Join us for a night of exotic entertainment and delectable Middle Eastern fare and help Palestinian refugee youths receive fair opportunities.
Featuring live entertainment by well-renowned Middle Eastern Oriental dancers Sadia Hassan and Yasmeen, followed by some sassy world beats by DJ Habibi, the night will be as fun as it will be insightful.
The non-profit organization Global Lives Project
Lebanon team has just returned from the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut and would like to share with you multimedia works made by Shatila’s youths and excerpts from a 24-hour documentary featuring a day in the life of 9-year old Palestinian refugee Jamila Jad.
Come from *6:30pm for entertainment while you tuck into Chef Andy’s super yummy Middle Eastern buffet (3,000yen, including a 1,000yen donation) OR *from 9:30pm for drinks and entertainment (minimum 500 yen donation at door).
There will be a raffle with some great prizes! Ninety percent of the proceeds will go to Social Care, a non-profit Shatila-based NGO committed to empowering Palestinian refugee youths, and ten percent to the Global Lives Project.
