SCMS ---> Kinema Club

[Dolores Martinez]

Just a P.S.
Does anyone know why there is no official cancellation notion up yet on the
SCMS site?  Lola

2009/5/13 Dolores Martinez <dm6 at soas.ac.uk>

> Dear all,
> 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
>
> 2009/5/13 Kukhee Choo <choo.kukhee at iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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