LA's 33 Strings三十三絃の会Newsletter #4 🌸Blossom Festival Recap🌸 Hosted at the California Institute of the Arts, the 2nd Annual Blossom Festival had another successful turnout! This year's sought collaborations with other cultural clubs on campus to showcase different cultures and great performances by LA's 33 Strings and students alike. Not just performances, but different experiences and great eats as well! With great people, food, experiences, and performances, there's nothing creative minds...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
LA's 33 Strings三十三絃の会Newsletter #3 Our New Logos!! We are very excited to announce our logos! Among many candidates (thank you for submitting!), these are the two finalists. We love both so much, so we decided to use both as our logos. You will be seeing these logos everywhere around us! The first logoThis logo depicts the number 33 in both Arabic numbers (33) and Japanese numbers (三十三). You can also see a koto bridge and shamisen bachi. The second logo This one says our name (三十三絃の会 LA's 33...
3 months ago • 5 min read
LA's 33 Strings/三十三絃の会 Newsletter Updates on Our Activities! Logo Competition Deadline Extended! The new deadline is March 16 at 11:59pm! Please submit your ideas from below! Don't forget that there is a $100 prize for the winner! Submit your Design! Las Vegas Performance in February We had a wonderful time sharing Japanese music with the Las Vegas audience at the Dream Asia Food Festival! One of the pieces that we played was My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ) from Studio Ghibli. There were so many...
4 months ago • 2 min read
LA's 33 Strings First Newsletter! Let us introduce ourselves We are Nonprofit Now! After all challenges and difficulties, now we are happy to announce we are a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit! We are very excited to grow with this new format while keep doing what we love and have been doing, appreciating Japanese music, learning how to play Japanese instruments, such as koto and shamisen, and sharing Japanese music with everyone out there as much as possible! Here is our mission statement. At...
5 months ago • 3 min read