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ENJOY a slide show from WUB Scholarship recipient Mary Nakada!
Cha Cha Chiburu Fiesta! Friday December 7, 2007
No "normal" WUB-Hawaii meeting in December... instead, we will be having Cha Cha Chiburu Fiesta on December 7th, at the Honolulu Country Club in Moanalua.
This is our big gala event for the year and will help us to raise funds to support our South American Chiburu Sisters and Brothers celebrate the Okinawa Centennial Celebrations in 2008. This is also our recruitment effort so we want everyone to participate and bring prospective members to the event.
WUB members from Okinawa and South America will be at the party to join us as we dance the Cha Cha and Samba. We will have great food and lots of Orion Beer and Awamori. There will also be a golf outing that will also take place on the same day.
UPDATE: The event is sold out, but if you want to support the event which is for the Brazil/Argentina Okinawan Immigration Centennials, please contact us to donate silent auction items, or click the donate button here to make a monetary donation! Ippei Nihei Debiru!
Past WUB-Hawaii General Meeting:
Thursday, November 1, 2007
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Maple Garden Restaurant
Topic: Kyuzo Toyama (Father of Okinawan Emigration) (click for more)
COST: $17.00 per person ($10 for students)
PARKING: On-site or street, a few stalls in Frank's Auto Repair next door,
also FHB parking lot where you need to feed the meter
Please RSVP to Mae Higa maey@ WUBHawaii.com .
If anyone has any ideas for a different meeting place, please let us know!
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Congratulations
to the 1st WUB scholarship recipient Mary Nakada from
Peru! Mary arrived in Hawaii on (8/5/06) and has completed the APLP
program and has returned to Peru in December.
Click here for more on Mary
and the award.Read her final report here (also in Spanish). Read her interim report here (also in Spanish and Japanese). Read a couple Okinawan articles about her and WUB. |
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WUB-Hawaii Beach House Retreat + Golf!
The Retreat was held March 3-4, 2007. Portlock area, Hawaii Kai.
We had over 50 people who showed up for all or some of the retreat. The food
was tasty, the discussions enlightening, and the cameraderie and networking wonderful. There was also beer, soft drinks, water and AWAMORI! Some swam in the ocean, some went fishing (and caught fish!), the golfers had fun, and it seemed everyone had a good time relaxing, conversing, and getting to know others.
There was also some volleyball, a near explosion, waterbaloons, and a sanshin performance by the Okinawan students.
Thanks to all who came and especially the many who helped out in someway!
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Click here for more details (beach house, directions, agenda, committees)
Click here for WUB RETREAT PHOTOS!
Nomura-Ryu Ongaku Kyo Kai, Hawaii Shibu
40th Anniversary Celebration
April 22, 2007 - Sunday, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM.
Hawaii Okinawa Center, $15 presale tickets
Here is a music recital organized by one of our WUB members... just the third public performance by the local sanshin group since 1967! Click here for more...
WUB Hawaii Shinnen Enkai
Friday, January 19th, 5pm -10pm
Natsunoya Tea House.
Thanks to Mihoko and Derek for putting on a great program!
Our Christmas Party was held at the Hawaii Prince Hotel, on
Monday, December 4th, from 6:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Thanks to Jackson for planning it!
Our fearless leader Bob Nakasone was recognized by the Okinawan newspaper, Ryukyu Shimpo, and named one of four Okinawans who have made important contributions to Okinawa. Bob accepted his award at a ceremony attended by approximately 1000 people. Bob's speech.
SENJUKAI'S AWAMORI FESTIVAL! Thursday, November 30, 2006.
The annual Senjukai Hawaii's fundraising event. The event helped raise funds for future Okinawan Dance recitals and scholarships for students who will be taking the test in Okinawa to further their dance skills.
View the Group Photo from an informal, unoffical Student get-together, held in Sept, and attended by some WUB officers and others relevant to student work or education opportunities.
The 4th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival was held in Okinawa from October 12-15, 2006. Many WUB-Hawaii members attended--stay tuned for pictures and reports from the Taikai. For more info about the big event, please visit the 4th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival website.
More of the WUB-Hawaii website coming soon, stay tuned! ... let us know if you want to help in any way or have any suggestions/comments/etc ...
email: webmaster1@wubHawaii.com
with suggestions for this webpage...