Dear all,<br>What a great idea. Hakone would be wonderful, but how many of us could be accommodated? I also thought: I-House, the Foreign Press Club and the British Council, all of which have rooms, but I don't know if we have connections and what or if they would charge. Also, there must have been an initial contact at the Josai, and if the rooms have all been booked, perhaps we could have use of some of them? Just some ideas. Lola<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/13 Kukhee Choo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:choo.kukhee@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp">choo.kukhee@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If anybody needs some space, there is a new Fukutake Hall at the University of Tokyo which I have access to. There is a public space called the "commons" and I have seen a lot of discussion groups doing their own mini-workshops there.<br>
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And I think the onsen idea is great. There is a really cheap place in Hakone that has a conference room and everything. I think they accept up to 50 people per group.<br>
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<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu" target="_blank">amnornes@umich.edu</a> wrote:<br>
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Oliver suggests an Kinema Club, and worries that it's stepping on someone's toes. I want to chime in to remind people that Kinema Club has no feet so there are no toes to smush.<br>
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I think it's a splendid idea. Here are the two ways that it could happen under such short notice.<br>
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1) One or more of our colleagues in Japan could chip in with a space. Even one big space could suffice, as "panels" could be converted into "huddles." Each huddle goes off to a corner and people do their thing.<br>
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2) A distributed version. People find their own spaces for panels: hotel rooms, restaurants, coffee shops, etc. Put a goodly amount of time between panels. If we didn't think there was enough time to pull this off, then we could centralize it. Between panels everyone meets at, say, the south entrance plaza to Shinjuku Station. People find their huddles, and then peel off to a coffee shop or ramen shop to do it. Needless to say, this makes spectating problematic.<br>
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3) Weather permitting, do it in a public park. Too late for hanami taikai, but this of course would be easier than anything else. At the very least, the "main reception" could be a picnic with absolutely no fuss. BYO everything.<br>
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I'll add a fourth: everyone stay at an onsen!<br>
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Seems to me Kinema Club has its anarchic nature just for this kind of thing.<br>
Let's do it. I'm willing to put some time into organizing, but could use help.<br>
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We can invite SCMS folk in, see how many there a