Hello!

Welcome back to to all members of CUJA for another semester of fun events. To kick off the winter term, we are once again involved with organizing the Japan Night with our schools’ Japanese Department. This is a major event about Japanese culture that CUJA is honored to be involved in during the past years of operation and this year, we are very excited to once again be a part of this great event.

Japan Night is an event to promote traditional Japanese culture with many activities including:
1. Japanese Dinner (Bento)
2. Haiku Contest
3. Tea Ceremony
4. Martial Arts Performance
5. Different Workshops including:
Sushi-making
Takoyaki
Kimono-wearing
Tea ceremony
Calligraphy
Origami
Japanese Traditional Card Game (Karuta)

The non-member fee is $20, however if you are a CUJA member with a valid membership card, it is $15. Please contact us at exec.cuja@gmail.com for payment before the 20th for the discount or contact Carleton’s Japanese department after the date.

For anyone interested in Japanese traditional culture, this will be a great event. We hope to see you all!!!

Its the PUB NIGHT where members (19+) will be provided beer on a first-come-first serve basis.

The event is held at Fox and Feather Pub and Grill on Tuesday, December 6 at 7 pm and will last till about 10 pm. This is for those who were wondering a day after classes have ended so no one will have class conflicts at this time.

CUJA does NOT serve alcohol to minors so if you are 18 or younger. You may still come to socialize, but we will not be serving you beer.

ID and CUJA Membership Cards are MANDATORY!!! DO NOT forget them.

Place: Internet Cafe Karaoke, 182 Rideau Street (Near Dalhouse and Rideau)
Time: November 25th, 2011, 7:00pm – 10:00pm

We will also have a small karaoke singing competition, if you are interested, please email us at exec.cuja@gmail.com.
Winner will receive a gift card.
Further rules will be explained during the event. To avoid awkward results, execs are not allowed to win

Tonight, Friday September 14, at 6:30pm, CUJA is holding the first Movie Night of the year!

To open up with our series of Movie Nights, we will be showing The Secret World of Arrietty. The anime is a 2010 product of Studio Ghibli, what is known as the Walt Disney of Japan which brought us the Academy Award winning Spirited Away.

The film tells the story of Arrietty, a young Borrower who lives under the floorboards of a typical household. She eventually befriends Sho, a human boy with a heart condition since birth who is living with his great aunt Sadako. When Sadako’s maid Haru becomes suspicious of the floorboard’s disturbance, Arrietty and her family must escape detection, even if it means leaving their beloved home.

The movie will be in Japanese with English subtitles so this will be a great way to practice your language for those who are studying Japanese.

We hope to see you all.

Hope everyone is enjoying the new school years so far. Almost three weeks of school has gone by and CUJA’s first social event of the year is coming around. The annual icebreaker is scheduled on this Friday, September 30 at Carleton University Ice House 2406. We will be serving some snacks and play some Japanese games. This will be a great time to meet people who share the same interest in Japan as you and practice your language with our Japanese members as well as experience a little Japanese culture through the games.

For those of you who have not got your membership yet, we will still be collecting membership fee tomorrow. Membership card will also be handed out tomorrow for everyone who has paid.

See you all!

Hello Japan lovers!

It has been a while since we saw each other last April. Summer has gone by and now CUJA is back for yet another year. This year, we will be welcoming some new execs who are very committed to making CUJA a great place for everyone interested in Japan. As this is our third year of operation, we -the exec team- call ourselves “CUJA in 3D”.

Our events this year include CUJA’s classic Maid Cafe, Karaoke Night, Ski Trip, etc… along with Movie Nights, Culture Night and many more.  “CUJA in 3D” hope to see all of you soon!

Our first event, the icebreaker is scheduled to be coming this Friday, September 30. We are looking forward to seeing you all!

Image taken from Oto-Wa Taiko

Carleton University is proudly hosting the Oto-Wa Taiko Japanese drumming group and Dagaku children’s group to help survivors of the recent earthquake/tsunami in Japan. With the powerful sounds of Japanese drums, they hope their prayers and energy will travel overseas to those affected by the earthquake/tsunami.

The event will take place this Friday April 1, 2011 at 7:00pm in Kailash Mital Theatre (Southam Hall), Carleton University. Admission is $10.00 and tickets will be sold at the door. Tickets are sold on a first come, first served basis so make sure to get there early to avoid disappointment! Parking is available in Parking Lot 1 for a flat-rate of $6.00 after 5:00pm. Please see Map for directions.

Please visit Oto-Wa Taiko’s Website for more information about this event and the drumming group.

Hi Everyone,

We’d to start by saying the past week has been incredibly emotional,  not only because of the images of Japan that continued to fill the news, but rather primarily because of the positive reaction that we experienced from the Carleton community.  The fundraiser was a huge success, with about $14, 500 raised in only 5 days.  Our donors left so much more than a monetary value- they have left us with warmth, compassion, and hope.

Support has also come from friends who have donated cookies in exchange for all donations (courtesy of Boko Bakery), art work (courtesy of Eepmon) and handmade jewelry (courtesy of Mika Yoshimoto).  Many students also donated their time  and donated to this cause – CUJA members and non-members alike.  Without them, we would not have been able to mobilize as quickly and with such force as we did.

We have also had huge support from the Carleton University administration, in particular Roseann O’Reilly Runte (President and Vice-Chancellor) and Suzanne Blanchard (Associate Vice President) who helped us inform the community on a scale that CUJA could only hope to be reach.  They also arranged for us to have a table despite there being no available spaces to rent out.  They also continued to check up on us with kind words of support.

The instructors of Japanese Language (Yoko Azuma-Prikryl, Elizabeth Sowka, and Mika Yoshimoto) have also been part of our support team, giving words of encouragement and helping CUJA spread its hopeful message.  Fellow clubs and associations have also been very supportive, including the Muslim Students Association (who supported us while we were haphazardly putting this event together).  Many other groups and associations have also committed themselves to our cause, and will be holding events in the coming weeks with portions of their proceeds going towards disaster relief efforts.  We will continue to update here with information as it develops.

We cannot begin to express our gratitude to all members of Carleton University for their support.  You have validated our belief that there is no better place for CUJA to exist.  You have shown great resolve and great kindness to not only us at CUJA but also to the people in the affected areas of Japan.  Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.

Love always,

CUJA

CUJA may be done it’s fundraiser in the Unicentre Atrium, but there are still events happening to help disaster relief efforts in Japan!

Oliver’s has graciously offered to donate proceeds from this week’s Thirsty Thursday (Mar 24, Oliver’s 1st Floor, 8pm to 11pm!) cover charge! Its a great time to take a breather before the last push of finals assignments!! So be sure to pop by and have a drink to honor the victims of the earthquake and tsunami (drinking is part of Japanese culture, after all)! See more details at their Facebook event page!

Also CUJA will be holding its final movie night of this session, and will be showing Departures (おくりびと) at Azrieli Pavilion 132 on Mar 25, from 6pm!  It is an Academy Award winning movie about our ability to overcome adversity!  It was shown last semester by SLALS, so if you weren’t able to catch it the first time around, don’t miss out!  If you did already see it, and loved it, definitely come by!  CUJA will also be selling snacks (onigiri are makin’ a come back!) and calligraphy pieces, with all funds going to our funds already raised for disaster relief efforts in Japan!  We will also be collecting messages of hope on origami paper that will be made into cranes, as mentioned on our last post!

We hope to see you all at some of these events!  Lets do it for Japan!!!!

Please see the following, created by Kenta Shimohira.  They are messages of hope from Carleton to Japan.  We hope to collect enough messages to make 千羽鶴 (a thousand origami cranes) to help grant our wish for the prosperity of not only the people of Japan, but of people all over the world.

Please feel free to leave a message of hope here, which will transcribed onto a piece of origami paper and folded into a crane.  Once we have collected 1000 cranes, we will send them off to Japan.