For the second time in the Ełk Cultural Center is organized an event that is popular among all lovers of Asia – Day Japanese. On November 20 (Sunday), the participants of the event will move to the country Cherry Blossom.

Program:

Fan decorating workshops

ECK, free participation, registration is required at tel. 87 621 80 00 (Mon-Fri, 8:00-16:00)

• 10.00 a.m. youth and adults
• 11.30 a.m. children 8+

During the workshops, participants will have the opportunity to decorate your fan with your own unique pattern inspired by Japan and Far away - instructor Monika Dąbkowska.

Japanese is simple – a Japanese lesson

10.30 a.m., age: 10+, chamber hall, free admission

In the lesson, participants will learn basic phrases and greetings in Japanese, count from 1 to 100, names of months, days of the week and solve some quizzes related to Japanese writing and kanji characters!

Japanese cinema

• "Ramen. Taste of memories" (subtitles), 11.30 a.m., youth and adults, free tickets available at the ECK ticket office

Presented in the Culinary Cinema 68 section. International Berlin Film Festival, a new film from Singapore's most famous film director Eric Khoo, author of "Tatsumi", "12 Floors" and "Be with Me".

• "Belle" (subtitles) + discussion panel, hours 13.30, age: 10+, free tickets available at the ECK ticket office

Visionary, Oscar-nominated creator of "Mirai" and "Wolf Children" Mamoru Hosoda presents visually stunning, honest and a poignant story about growing up in the age of social media.

Opening of the exhibition of Japanese woodcuts

1.00 p.m., Ślad Gallery, free admission

Japanese ukiyo-e, or woodcuts depicting "paintings" flowing world" delighted many recipients. During the vernissage you will be able not only to admire the original Japanese woodcuts, but also learn about how they are formed.

Linocut workshops

2.00 p.m., age: 12+, room 25, share payable PLN 15 at the ticket office ECK, the number of places is limited

During the linocut workshops you will be able to create your own own work in a similar style and technique similar to woodcut, but easier to perform for people starting their artistic adventure. In progress workshop participants will get acquainted with the linocut technique and make their own painting inspired by Japan – instructor Wiesław Kulik.

Little Japan – children's zone (and not only)

2.30 p.m., Zebra room, free admission

For the youngest lovers of Asia and Japan in the Zebra Hall will be thematic coloring pages, photo wall, reading Japanese fairy tales, making paper dolls and the possibility of making a souvenir with your own hands in the form of a pin.

Not just sushi. Culinary tour through the regions of Japan (lecture)

4.00 p.m., chamber hall, free admission

Japanese cuisine, which is on the list of the world UNESCO heritage is not only sushi. Participants of the lecture will "travel" through different regions of the Land of the Rising Sun and learn m.in where to go for the most delicious beef and where to eat ice cream flavored with soy sauce.

The lecture will be conducted by: Roksana Zawiłowska – graduate Ethnolinguistics with a specialization: Japanese language at Adam University Mickiewicz in Poznań. Scholarship holder of the Japanese Ministry of Education at Kyoto Sangyo University university in Kyoto. She worked for over two years in Osaka, in a Japanese IT company. She devoted her free time in Japan to travel – including culinary ones.

Kyoto – the heart of Japan (lecture)

5.15 p.m., chamber hall, free admission

There are places that arouse universal admiration and on they are memorable for a long time. One of them is certainly Kyoto – a city that for over 1000 years it was the capital of Japan, which is the cradle of culture japanese and which is said to be the "heart of Japan".

During the lecture you will be able to get acquainted with the history Kyoto, "visit" the most interesting monuments and traditional districts and take part in the most important festivals.

Speaker: Aleksandra Popek – Japanese scholar, graduate Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She studied and worked in Kyoto. She had the opportunity to visit these more and less known corners of the city, and still not she still saw all that the mysterious Kyoto has to offer.