Does your town throw a Japanese Culture Matsuri?

[komitsuki]

Nope... just several small Eids (Muslim holidays) and Chinese new year festival in my city in Canada.

[YukisUke]

I live in Brooklyn, NY and they have Sakura Matsuri at the Botanical Gardens every spring. I don't go only because I am a very busy person. Wish I did though. Sounds nice.

[Taty]

I wish they would! *.* that would be great... well we had >Japanese Weeks< at the mall... with stuff like calligraphy, japanese beginner's course, martial arts, flower arrangement, tea ceremonies... I was so surprised there were real Japanese there! cuz our 4 sushi restaurants in downtown are run by Vietnamese... That's what it looks like in Germany xD I was kinda trying to figure out at first if they were really Japanese so I listened to their talking (a mum was talking to her children) and >yamede< and >urusai< really convinced me xD I got to drink some of that pulverized green tea and some Japanese rice cookies... but it looks like it wasn't a regular matsuri... though I wish they would repeat it! xD and if they don't, I'll just go to Japan! XP

[Pexster]

This is also one of the reason why my town SUCKS, they don't celebrate it.

[coolforcats1]

We don't have one in London
I wish we did, it's be awesome XD

[RediscoverTravel]

I just moved to Michigan after living in Japan and was happy to find that there are Japanese festivals. Last New Years we had omochitsuki (making mochi) at my kids Japanese school which was a lot of fun. U of M also has quite a few events including a Japanese Quiz Bowl where 600 elementary and middle school children competed to test their Japanese language skills. My Iaido dojo did a demonstration at the Bowl which was well received.

[SaintKat]

Sure, NZ has a great multi-ethnic society so there's always cultural festivals happening across the country. Not as much activities rurally as in the cities of course. Kohanga Reo (kindergarten) and Primary Schools (ages 5-10/12) are really great at teaching cultural awareness at a young age.

[Hyakushi]

Yup the Aki Matsuri comes around every year I'm actually part of the organization who sets up the festival but I don't think I'm going to be helping out this year cause of my job but I'll probably just give a big donation for raffle tickets heh.
What do you guys have at your festival? our is only a one day thing untill we get the Japanese culture center set up, (Usually we hold it at the hispanic culture center).

[Cypsis]

In my country we have Animatsuri, which is organized by Estonia´s Anime club. there might be some smaller things too, but I really don´t know...

and every year there is a Japanese movie festival in Cinema.

[Tturtle]

I live in VA. They have a Japanese festival in D.C. every year. It was just earlier this month.