{"id":23735,"date":"2012-02-24T21:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=23735"},"modified":"2012-02-24T21:39:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:39:25","slug":"launch-of-tomo-anthology-to-benefit-teens-in-tohoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/24\/launch-of-tomo-anthology-to-benefit-teens-in-tohoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Tomo anthology to benefit teens in Tohoku"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suzanne Kamata (Tokushima 1988-90),\u00a0 Publicity Assistant for SCBWI-Tokyo shares this:\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saturday, March 10, 2012<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tomo <\/em><\/strong>Anthology Launch: <\/strong><\/p>\n

An Evening of Readings, Discussion and Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Time:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday, March 10, 2012, 6:30\u20138:00 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Place:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tokyo Women\u2019s Plaza, Conference Room 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

5-53-67 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo <\/strong><\/p>\n

(by the Children\u2019s Castle and United Nations University). <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fee:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Attendance only: 500 yen SCBWI members; 800 yen nonmembers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attendance and Tomo <\/em>book: 1,200 yen <\/strong>SCBWI members; 1,500 yen nonmembers<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reservations: RSVP contact (at) scbwi (dot) jp<\/em> by\u00a0Friday, March 9\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This event will be in English.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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March 10, 2012, is publication day for Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction\u2014An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories <\/em>(Stone Bridge Press). <\/em>One year after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, this collection of short fiction brings teens worldwide closer to Japan and contributes to long-term relief efforts in Tohoku. Join us for this Tokyo Tomo <\/em>launch event, which will feature readings by various Tomo <\/em>authors, as well as panel discussion and reflection on this project.<\/p>\n

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Tomo<\/em> (meaning \u201cfriend\u201d in Japanese) is an anthology of young adult short fiction in prose, verse and graphic art set in or related to Japan. Edited and with a foreword by Holly Thompson, this collection for readers age 12 and up features thirty-six stories\u2014<\/strong>including ten in translation\u2014contributed by authors and artists from around the world, all of whom share a connection to Japan. Tomo <\/em>includes a wide variety of unique stories, including tales of friendship, mystery, fantasy, science fiction and history. By sharing \u201cfriendship through fiction,\u201d Tomo<\/em> aims to bring Japan stories to readers worldwide, and in so doing, to help support young people affected or displaced by the March 11, 2011, Japan earthquake and tsunami disasters. Proceeds from the sales of this book will go toward long-term relief efforts for teens in Tohoku. To begin with, Tomo<\/em> fund donations will go to the Japan-based NPO Hope for Tomorrow (hope-tomorrow.jp), which in addition to providing educational expenses (including university entrance exam fees, travel costs to exam centers, etc.) also provides mentoring, tutoring, and foreign language support to high school students in hard-hit areas of Tohoku. Visit the Tomo Blog at http:\/\/tomoanthology.blogspot.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for interviews with contributors and more information about Tomo. <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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www.scbwi.jp<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Suzanne Kamata (Tokushima 1988-90),\u00a0 Publicity Assistant for SCBWI-Tokyo shares this: Saturday, March 10, 2012 Tomo Anthology Launch: An Evening of Readings, Discussion and Reflection Time:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday, March 10, 2012, 6:30\u20138:00 p.m. Place:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tokyo Women\u2019s Plaza, Conference Room 1 5-53-67 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (by the Children\u2019s Castle and United Nations University). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For a map see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6aP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23737,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions\/23737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}