Welcome to the Denver Takayama Sister City Committee2016 pictures page
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Welcome to the Denver Takayama Sister City Committee
2016 Events
Dinner with JFA - October
Tanabata - July
Cherry Blossom Festival - June
City of Takayama park - May
Koto received - April
Setsubun February 2
Shinnenkai January 24
Events of other organizations
Japanese Kite Festival
DSCI World Wide Festival
Colorado Anime Fest
New Year's Day at 285 Landing
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| A dinner for 26 | Conversations | Conversations | Come join us | Steve, Aki, Suzue |
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| Checking out the sale |
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| Tanabata - what it's all about | Our chef, Suzue Sato | Steve, Claire, Barabara, Mattheus | Cleve helps Suzue serve | Part of the garden |
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| The Garden of Serenity | Kellye Grayson and Nick Thomas | More house and garden | Gate to Japanese garden | Lou and Linda Mataresse |
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| Lou and Linda close up | Jim Tait is serene | In front of the little people | There's no place like gnome | A gathering of gnomes |
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| The house at dusk | Denise ?? and Tyler Rauert | Our hostess Rolayne Sellers | Barbara and Matheus | Marie Verrett our photographer extraordinare |
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| Atsushi chills out | Gathering | Takayama man from the consulate | Steve explains it all | Shakuhachi start |
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| Kevin and Allison are entranced | Kitty enjoys the evening | Music at the tea house | Kherlen writes her wish | Kitty passes out papers |
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| Allison's wish | Claire's wish | It was a romantic evening | Claire and Kherlen | Transition to the larger yard |
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| Robin Post shines | Matheus talks about the music | Gathered in the dusk | The magic begins | Enchantment |
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| Magic | Mamiko ... | ... and Homare ... | ... fall under the spell | Love is in the air |
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| Happy to be with each other | Atsushi and Robin | Afterglow | The chief and the chef | Gail Jackson and Atsushi |
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| Celebrants | Friends | Gail, Atsushi, Steve | Matheus and fans | Suzue and Mamiko |
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| Sophie Magrath | View from the balcony | Garden at night | Claire's lesson (see first picture) | Three roses |
| And so it was, a magical night, a mystical night, a romantic night | filled with new and long time friends, wonderful food, a perfect setting and music that carried you away. | These nights can't be planned - they just happen. | Then, inevitably ... |
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| Wishes tree - the day after |
Additional pictures can be found at this Dropbox location.
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| Our neighborhood 1 | Our neighborhood 2 | Our neighborhood 3 | Our neighborhood 4 | Our home |
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| Setting up | Stopping by | Susan explains it all | Susan and Anna | Prints are hot |
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Video: Diana Thompson chanting | Video: Diana DeGette speaking |
| Open for business | Susan and Marc | Opening ceremony | Chanting | Diana DeGette speaking |
| Video: sake cask openning |
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| Sake cask openning | The audience | The audience | The audience | Two beauties |
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| Exquisite pottery | A variety of items | Susan, Anna, and Marc | Taking the stage | Taking the stage |
| Video: The Hokey Pokey |
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Video: The Sakura Chorus |
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| The Hokey Pokey | Take a bow | The Sakura Chorus | Couple from Comic-con | Two beauties |
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| Steve checks it out | Telling the story | Telling the story | Telling the story | Gary, Steve, Makoto, and Grace |
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| Working on the center patch | Taking a short break | Park plaque | The work crew in the sun | The work crew around the park sign |
| In July, 2015, at the party we had to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Denver / Takayama relationship, Mr. Kobayashi (President of the Takayama Denver Friendship Association) presented Steve Comstock (chairman of the Denver Takayama Sister City Committee) with a letter of intent to give us a koto as a token of their warm feelings for us. | Unfortunately, the koto was being refurbished and could not make it to Denver in time for the official celebration. | On April 6, 2016 Mr. Hirakawa (vice-president of TDFA) and Mr. Nakasone of MEM Travel were able to deliver the koto to Steve Comstock. We then took the koto to the home of Junko Shigeta, DTSCC member and founder of Koto Colorado. | Junko is providing a 'foster home' for the koto and hopes to be able to play it for various events we have over the years. The following pictures show Junko unpacking and preparing the koto, and we end with a video of her playing a short piece. |
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| Background | Background | Background | Background | Unpacking the koto |
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| Need to get bridges | Here is box of bridges | Setting the bridges | Set the last bridge | Ready to play |
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| Sonoda's - our Setsubun site | Makoto Kawafune - our host | Makoto Kawafune - and chef | Just some of the chow! | The Scofields and the Sellers |
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| Family | Wise guys | Wise gals | Wise gals, 2 | Gail and Vanessa |
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| Jay and Debbie | Kitty | Suzue and Cleve | Buds | Kent and Rolayne |
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| Colleen and Steve | Ted, Reggie, and Steve | Chowing down, 1 | Chowing down, 2 | Chowing down, 3 |
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| Devilish masks | Two babes | Double trouble | Ferocious | Threat |
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No one got any pictures of the bean throwing. |
| Scary | Erie | Yikes! | Look Out Behind You! | need pics |
Additional pictures can be found at this Dropbox location.
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| Setting up | Drinks on the back porch | TR and Sachiko | conversations | In the kitchen |
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| Time to eat | Colleen, Tom, Charlene | Stone poses - 1 | Stone poses - 2 | Charlene |
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| Tom and Sachiko |
| The first day of this event saw a morning and an afternoon workshop to build kites |
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| Sponsors | Where to order kites | Kite master's kites, 1 | Kite master's kites, 2 | |
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| Kite master's kites, 3 | Kite master's kites, 4 | Kite master's kites, 5 | Kite master's kites, 6 | Kite master's kites, 7 |
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| Both sessions full | Both sessions full | A watchful eye | Kite master instructs | Don't sniff the glue |
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| Father and daughter | Happy student | Love the gloves | So far so good! | Happy and proud |
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| See what we've created! | Steve works the room | She just wants to make a kite | Father and son | Lookin' good! |
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| Volunteer Carol-Lynne | Young artist | The kite trio | Following instructions | Built it on his own |
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| Having fun | The lesson | Student designs | Student designs | Student designs |
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| Student designs | Student designs | Student designs | Student designs | Concentration |
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| Artists at work | Volunteer Homare | Another student design | Claudia - queen of the program | Best friends |
| The second day of this event was for flying kites, but kits were provided for kids to assemble |
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| Enthusiasts | Enthusiasts | Enthusiasts | Enthusiasts | |
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| A motley crew | Enthusiasts | Some assembly required | The master puts it all together | Roll it up sushi foodtruck rolls in |
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| Robin McCracken showed up | Finally flying | Roll it up sushi gets busy | The famous 100-kites flight | Consul General Ito being cool |
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| Consul General Ito being cool | Consul General Ito being cool | CG Ito flies the kite | Grace gets a chance to fly | Derek and Makoto hanging out |
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| Glorious banners | Tracking the wind | |||
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| Claudine flies |
Additional pictures for day 1 of the kite festival can be found at this Dropbox location.
Additional pictures for day 2 of the kite festival can be found at this Dropbox location.
| Saturday evening the 28th was a gala for the consular corps of Colorado ... |
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| The Consular Corps | Party crashers | Kitty at the bar | Makoto and Grace Ito | |
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| Two Presidents | Thorn between two roses | Gayle and Pani | Takayama folk | Kay and friend |
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And the next day, we held the DSCI festival at the Tivoli Commons on the Auraria campus ... | |
| Michael Frank | Beth Hendrix | Marie Verrett and her band | ||
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| Opening act | Opening act | Opening act | Opening act | World Trade Center directions |
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| World Trade Center directions | Three cultures(?) | Indian dancers | Indian dancers | Ikebana demonstration |
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| Ikebana demonstration | Ethiopian coffee | Ethiopian coffee | Mongolian food and info | French crepes |
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| Information table | DBT Judo dojo table | What's-her-name and Bryce | The Chennai table | African wares |
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| Michael at the Takayama table | A couple of shady characters | T.R Reid expounds on the Japanese hip-hop scene | Beautiful singer from Kunming | T.R Reid and Sachiko Nakahira |
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| Chinese dancers | The game of GO | Busy at the Takayama table | Mongolian language lesson | Around the world in song - Othman Hassan |
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| Takayama table pottery | Takayama table pottery |
Additional pictures from the Gala can be found at this Dropbox location.
Additional pictures from the Festival can be found at this Dropbox location.
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| Modest wig | Available styles | Fierce warriors | Green with envy? | Cigarrettes? Champagne? |
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| Princess and court | Prince and court | It's a sign | Fair maiden | Checking Costumes |
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| Let me tell you about Takayama | The audience | Working the booth | Guardian Steve | Guardian Chris |
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| David signs up | Gil explains it all | Gil's audience | Special audience | Who are these people? |
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| An odd bunch | Pretty hot ... | ...but watch out! |
Additional pictures can be found at this Dropbox location.
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| Sake bowl | Square cups | Kathy and Charlene | Ogi-san preparing | The spread |
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| The spread | The spread | The spread | The spread | The spread |
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| The spread | The spread | Kevin and Allison | My plate | My plate |
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| Sake cups have salt on edge | Some of the crowd | Some of the crowd |
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