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The California Association of Japanese Language Teachers, Sacramento Chapter, and The Department of Foreign Languages at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) cordially announce this special event, “Celebrating Japanese Culture and Language through Karaoke” on Saturday, December 17, 2005, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the CSUS campus. Celebrating
Japanese culture through Karaoke 1.
What is the purpose of this event? Karaoke is a music entertainment system providing prerecorded accompaniment to popular songs that a performer sings live, usually by following the words on a video screen.What is Karaoke in your language? Any questions and/or comments? Email to: Professor Kazue Masuyama Last
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1. What is the purpose of this event?To celebrate the Year of Foreign Language by promoting Japanese language and culture in the Greater Sacramento through Karaoke |
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2. Who can participate in this event?Those who are currently learning Japanese. If you are not currently learning Japanese, you may be able to enter with your Japanese language teacher's reommendation from your school. Each school, college, and university can select three (3) songs by individual(s) or group(s). The time limit of each song is up to 2 minutes .Thus, we suggest that students perform only one stanza of the song. Please let your Japanese language teacher know if you are interested in participating in this event. We need to know your name, your contact address (street address and phone number or email) and song (choice 1 and 2) by 5 pm, December 7, Wednesday. Or contact Ms. Naoko McHale (Davis High School) directly. The contest schedule will be finalized by Sunday, December 10.
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4. How do I get there? Where can I park?Find directions at http://www.csus.edu/webpages/visitors.stm Free Parking Parking Lot 2 Faculty/Staff/Student spaces are assigned for this event. Lot 2 is across from the bookstore so it will be fairly close to Mendocino Hall. No permit is required. Click HERE to obtain parking map and campus map.
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5. What is the schedule?Registration will start at 1:00, and actual performance will start at 1:30. We encourage all participants in the event to be there by 1:00! <Tentative
Event Schedule>
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6. What are the benefits to participate in this event?For students, we believe that this gives you a chance to get to know students and teachers from other schools. We plan to give prizes (1st place winner - $50; 2nd place winner - gift certificate; and one special winner - gift certificate)! We have already received special gifts from various organizations. We will also have a raffle where you have a chance to win some cool prizes (Japanese electric dictionary, etc.). Japanese newspaper reporters will write about this event! For teachers, we hope that this event will help promote your programs and attract many students to your class. |
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7. Who will decide these winners?Our special judges for the contest include a professional karaoke singer, Port of Sacramento Japanese School representative, local Japanese business people, and media representatives. They are: Mr.
Yoshihiko Fukushima, the Rep. of Port of Sacramento Japanese School
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8. Who is responsible for this event?Event committee members Professor
Kazue Masuyama , Sacramento State, Event coordinator
Professor Richi Kroupa, Sacramento City College Helpers Mr.
Yohei Akimoto, Sacramento State
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9. Participating schools (alphabetical order)We have just advertised this event - for those schools that want to participate in this event, please email Kazue Masuyama or Naoko McHale.
Sacramento
City College
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10. Individuals and organizations that support this event (alphabetical order)Supporting Organizations and Business: Consulate
General of Japan, San Francisco Hokubei
Mainichi Kikooman
Food, Inc. Donation from the following individuals: Mr.
Hiro Tsuji Japanese
language teachers:
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Most commonly asked questions by participants in 2005 1. What songs can I choose from? The Karaoke machine has 47,000+ songs (the songs came out before May, 2005) and we believe that we will be able to find the songs that participants want to sing. So please let us know:What song does each of your students want to sing? First option and second option. When the song is old and popular, many singers might have sung the song. We want to know which singer's version does your student want to sing if they know. 2. Where can I get the songs? We look for the song in the database in the Karaoke machine. 3. Are children songs ok? Yes. 4. Do I have to furnish my own Karaoke tape? No. If we do not have the songs that students want to sing, we may ask students to bring them. But let us look for the songs first in the database. 5. What kind of format do you need? We suggest that students perform only one stanza of the song. When we find out the number of participants, we may increase the time limit of each song. 6. Do I have to memorize the songs? We highly encourage students to memorize the song, but there is a monitor that shows the song. If students forget, they can see it. They are in Japanese. 7. Can I perform as a group? 3 songs per school - so a song can be sung by an individual or group. Again, we may allow more students from each school if we do not have enough participants. We will inform you after the due day (December 7, 2005). 8. Is there a fee? No fee. We have been fundraising for this event, and we welcome donations from any individual (including teachers) and organizations. The money will support this event. 9. Should I dress in costume? It should be apt to them. It would be fun to see their performance if they dress up!
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