KOKUSAI KOULYUU events

Well, I created an 案 with some of y'alls ideas and my KAKALI said it looks TANOSISOU so, thx for the help!

I now have until the 12th to decide what supplies I'm gonna need to make everything so they can use YOSAN

question, what is koksai kolyu? do yall solely have events for shimin, or do yall also do events for the alts?

i had originally thought our events should be half half because koksai kolyuu for alts to experience nihonbunka outside of their schools too, and also maybe as an avenue for alts to meet local people; but [redacted co cir](and subleader just now) said if our events are majorly alts, then it defeats the purpose of koksai kolyuu. so im starting to wonder if my understanding/defintion of koksai kolyu is wrong....

without the alts, there also wont be any foreigners at the events besides me and cie; but with the covid capacity limit, alts can take up a majority of the spots vs sometimes shimins just dont rsvp so the foreigner ratio is unbalanced. subleader said koksai kolyu should give shimins opportunities to come in contact with english but most of our members speak to us in japanese.

thank you! sanko ni naru 

I also see koksai kolyu as a two way thing, so most of my events are literally exchanges between Japanese and Gaikokujin, over things like "board games" or "picnic" as a sort of theme. I normally limit the capacity of each group so that it's as much as possible half Japanese half Gaikokujin, and that tends to go quite well. The events go pretty well and I get good feedback, but it annoys me a lot how my office refuses to acknowledge the Gaikokujin as customers in the same way as the Japanese participants. My kakaricho always calls them "volunteers" or "balluk's hulemdos", when half of them I've never even met before. I plan to keep holding the events as two-way exchanges where both groups can benefit, but tbh i doubt my office will ever see them the same way. In my case, holding an event for the purpose of helping foreigners to do something is not part of how my office sees my job description.

I gave a few culture 講座 alongside my cooking classes. Even tho the themes revolved around food, I was able to share some good points about the differences across America. 

I would recommend planning a 20-30 min lecture, then leaving 10-15 min for Q&A at the end. 

It may depend on what you're doing to make the cards. I think 1 hr is a decent amount of time, but including a short presentation would be good if you're worried that 1 hour is too much time.

Hello hello p:

I’m currently planning different events to propose for this spring, and one
recommendation I got from the former CIR here is for me to introduce
アメリカ文化講座s aimed at adults in our town.

After looking through the forums here, I got plenty of ideas to try and pitch
aimed toward kids with parents such as craft workshops. If anyone has
experience proposing non-cooking events for adults, what kind of theme and
purpose did you choose for your events? Did you find them mostly successful
in terms of satisfied participants?

I’m open to trying anything like 文化講座s
or even craft workshops aimed toward adults, but I would like to hear if
anyone had more success with a certain kind of event versus others for
engaging adults.

Hello hello CIRHPers :v

Thankfully, I can report the Easter egg event is happening tomorrow!
Since it’s my first event, I imagine turnout will be pretty small, but we’re hoping multiple kids end up coming.

Since I was told to pitch more ideas aimed at adults in the community, I want to ask what kinds of crafts other CIRs may have had success in pitching for workshops with adults. P: Since cooking events look highly unlikely (cheeseburgers, smores, and pasta didn’t get through), I want to try craft workshops since they still allow people to talk to each other and get hands-on making something.

Since we want to promote the area’s nature, I wonder if an outdoor painting or drawing activity would be too unrealistic for a summer activity. P: What do we think?

Hikari are the events aimed at foreign or Japanese residents (or both?)

my office has two separate series of events; one is a series that highlights the fun cultural activities the city has to offer, and one that brings foreign and Japanese residents together to do something fun.

For the former, we primarily focus on giving foreign residents the chance to try traditional Japanese cultural activities, but once a year also ask a foreign owned restaurant chef to come and give a one off cooking class/cultural lesson to Japanese locals too. In the past we have done Japanese sweets making, ikebana, and tea ceremony events for foreign residents.

For the latter, we do all kinds of activities, but recent crafts were Japanese indigo dyeing last year and this year a 3 part pottery class. Participants were almost half and half foreign and Japanese, and we encouraged them to talk and mingle / share their 感想 with each other about their pieces that they made, to make it more of a koulyuu kind of vibe