SCMS ---> Kinema Club

[Wei Ting Jen]

Hello all,

I've been hibernating from the list due to job demands as a corporate slave.
But as luck would have it, I can obtain very good rates for bulk bookings
through my company at numerous hotel and serviced apartment properties in
Tokyo. Not as idyllic as an onsen in Hakone, but would be convenient and
cheap to travel to. (They have conference spaces too, but it won't be free)

Oliver, if you want to drop me a line I can put you in touch with our guys
in Tokyo to try and arrange some sort of group accomodation.

Regards,
Wei Ting

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Eija Niskanen <eija.niskanen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yoyogi Koen? Or Inokashira - we could drop by at the Ghibli
> Museum...But Fukutake Hall sounds good!
>
> Eija
>
> On 5/13/09, Kukhee Choo <choo.kukhee at iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >  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.
> >
> > http://www.shikiresorts.com/institution/kanagawa/forest/forest.html
> >
> >  Just an idea.
> >
> >  Kukhee Choo
> >
> >
> >  amnornes at umich.edu wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > I think it's a splendid idea. Here are the two ways that it could
> happen
> > under such short notice.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > I'll add a fourth: everyone stay at an onsen!
> > >
> > > Seems to me Kinema Club has its anarchic nature just for this kind of
> > thing.
> > > Let's do it. I'm willing to put some time into organizing, but could
> use
> > help.
> > >
> > > We can invite SCMS folk in, see how many there are, and then
> strategize.
> > Even if there are only five of us, it will be worth it.
> > >
> > > Markus
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Eija Niskanen
> c/o Hirasawa
> Koenji-kita 4-2-10
> Suginami-ku
> Tokyo 166-0002
>
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