Mochitsuki 2008

[spaztic_chu]

I didn't know where to put this, but the organizers for this say that Kumoricon qualifies to come to this~

The Mochitsuki is a non-profit festival that is held yearly at the PCC in January.  Mostly it is a Japanese-American festival to celebrate the New Year.  Events include taiko performaces, live performances by Asian groups, games, and live mochi (rice cake)-pounding and ice-carving demonstrations.  Booths are open to other non-profit groups as well.  This year's festival has a Hawaii theme to it, I believe. 

http://www.mochitsuki.org/about.html
http://www.mochitsuki.org/communitypartners.html <---forms are here

The website is actually kind of sparse right now,so I'd advise contacting info@mochitsuki.org for more info.  Also, booth prices go up after the end of December.

[totemo_oishii]

I've been to Mochitsuki a few times. Great fun. We dress decora. :3

[BlackjackGabbiani]

Their site doesn't list which campus it's on. I'm assuming Sylvania, since they're the biggest, but it'd be nice for them to actually *say* it.

[superjaz]

it is at Sylvania, it would be a great event for kumoricon to be at they would fit right in as its not that differnt from sakura festival at uwajimaya
but yeah great event i plan on going to the prefornace last year was called mochi to do about nothing, it was great! 

[melchizedek]

sounds like fun

[superjaz]

its a lot of fun, there is the preformance which includes taiko, then there is the cultral fest with food and mochi to buy, lots of booths

[laurifer]

I'm planning to be there again this year! And like totemo said, we dressed up decora-ish last year...I've got an idea of what I want to do this year

[JeffT]

Kumoricon is participating for the first time this year! I've created a new thread to highlight Kumoricon's involvement and details of the event:

http://www.kumoricon.org/forums/index.php?topic=6074.0

[~boogiepop~]

Ahhhhhh! Taiko playing! Too bad I don't live closer so I could go.