Join the Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania and the Society for Contemporary Craft to learn about the Japanese textile art sashiko.

Sashiko is a decorative reinforcement stitch, similar to Western quilting, traditionally with white thread on an indigo background. The presentation will be given by Fumiyo Iwadachi and the hands-on making session will be facilitated by Itsuko Hotta.

Full details and links to registration are available here: http://www.japansocietypa.org/event-2293412

You are cordially invited to a luncheon with Eric Sedlak, a Mt. Lebanon native and expert on the current business climate in Japan. Mr. Sedlak will discuss Abenomics and the status of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, with emphasis on current opportunities for US companies.

The luncheon will be held on Friday, September 16 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM in the Jones Day offices in the BNY Mellon building.

Registration is free, but seats are limited, so please register today!

Join us for the Japanese-English Reading Circle, a first of its kind reading group!

Mission: to promote language learning through reading and language exchange. We aim to keep positivity and motivation high while developing reading fluency, vocabulary, content discussion, and reading strategies in a fun, collaborative environment.

How it works:

*Members choose what they want to read (we have a library of Japanese and English books)

*Members read individually on their own time (meetings are for conversation)

Please join us for an afternoon of activities celebrating the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and his teachings. Enjoy tea and conversations with Pittsburgh organizations at 2:00 pm, followed by cultural performances, inter-faith presentations, and a panel discussion with authors, scholars, and educators with the topic "Be the Change:" Gandhi and the Next Generation.

Pitt Akshaya Patra presents: Penn Masala and Dr. Srimix LIVE IN CONCERT at the University of Pittsburgh!

Penn Masala is a collegiate a capella team that fuses South Asian and Western music to create a new style. They have performed in front of the President, at National Awards Ceremonies, and even were featured in the Hollywood movie, Pitch Perfect 2.
Dr. Srimix is a DJ who has been all around the world DJing and showing the best of both worlds on the dance floor. Catch him at the afterparty as well!

The Squirrel Hill Night Market is a free, outdoor street festival that’s fun for adults and kids of all ages, featuring:

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. Aman enjoys the finer things in life and has stopped at nothing to possess them, including embezzling from his real estate firm. When the opportunity to head up a large deal comes along, Aman puts his co-worker and fellow petty criminal, in charge, hoping that he will receive significant kickbacks when the job is finished. But, the deal goes awry, potentially ruining Aman.

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. One of the greatest scandals in Japanese police history, the Inaba Case, is the basis of this gritty, crime thriller. In 2002, Yoshiaki Inaba, a police inspector of Hokkaido Prefectural Police, was indicted on several counts involving weapons and narcotics.

Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Cast: Go Ayano, Munetaka Aoki, Young Dais
Language: Japanese, with English subtitles

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. An audience favorite from the 2013 Silk Screen Festival, Foreign Letters is a beautiful testimony of friendship and adolescence. Ellie escaped Israel with her family as a child and grew up in 1980s Connecticut. The film chronicles her early experiences in America, observations of wealth and excess and her crippling feelings of isolation from her peers.

This film is part of the Silk Screen Film Festival. Admission is free to Pitt students with an ID. Since his wife was killed, Leonard To has lost his job, his friends and maintains only a tenuous hold on his sanity and stability. The police have suspended their investigation, but Leonard continues his obsessive search for his wife’s killer. Leonard is futilely trying to put his life back together when he encounters a stranger standing at his wife’s grave.

Director: Dax Phelan
Cast: Jason Tobin, Eugenia Yuan, Byron Mann
Language: English