Japan Festival of Wellington
Japan Kids Summer Festival
11 January 2009
11 January 2009
Location: Auckland
Event category: Community event
The fourth Japan Kids Summer Festival
Forrest Hill Primary School 50 Forrest Hill Road, North Shore City
11:00-15:00
Traditional Japanese children's festival including stalls with food and games, workshops, a storyteller and taiko performance (Japanese drums).
Programme: 11:00 Festival starts
12:10 Taiko performance (Japanese drums)
14:10 Storyteller (in Japanese)
15:00 Festival ends
There will also be corners where people can play the traditional Japanese games Fukuwarai and Koma-mawashi. Fukuwarai “Lucky laugh” is a Japanese game played around the New Year. Similar to Pin the Tail on the Donkey, but the players pin different parts of the face onto a blank face. Koma-mawashi is a Japanese children’s game of spinning top, also played around the New Year.
Submitted January 3rd, 2009
