[Seattle Go Center] Go online Tuesday - Bunka no Hi online - Maeda Sensei's Go School online

Hello fellow Go enthusiasts!

Seattle Go community continues to Stay Home - Stay Safe.  The Go Center Board of Directors is considering when it will be prudent to re-open, and it probably won't be until Seattle is in Phase III of the Safe Start Phased Reopening Plan.

That's bad news for face-to-face games of Go, but there is still online Go.  The Go Center Discord Server remains active as a great place to meet and arrange to play on KGS or OGS, and the voice channels are nice for reviewing games afterward.  And tomorrow (October 13), we'll start hosting Tuesday Zoom sessions, 6:30 - 9:30 pm.  (Actually, I'll be online starting about 4 pm, so if you want to hang out a little early, drop on in!)

Zoom link:  https://zoom.us/j/95806790335
Passphrase:  empty3
(full invitation below with calendar links etc.)

Another upcoming fun online event -- the Bunka no Hi / Japanese Culture Festival at JCCCW!  (Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington -- the Go Center sometimes partners with JCCCW to do Go outreach at their Japanese culture fairs.)  Here is their invitation:

Bunka no Hi is going virtual this year! Bunka no Hi, or Japanese Culture Festival, is a free festival dedicated to celebrating, commemorating, and educating the public about Japanese and Japanese American Culture in the Seattle area. We hope you can join us from the safety of your home during our "Virtual Bunka no Hi", which will include a new video every Sunday at noon (PDT) during the month of November.

The new cultural videos will be available on the JCCCW's YouTube channel. Viewers can learn about Seattle's Japantown (Nihonmachi), manga graphic novels, storytelling (kamishibai), taiko performances, mochi pounding (mochitsuki), and Japanese New Year's mochi soup (ozoni).

We encourage you to invite your friends and family from across the country and around the world! The event is FREE to join!

Also online -- Maeda Sensei's Osaka International Go School!  Every month there are 4 games with other students (all games reviewed), 2 lectures, and one simul game with a pro (also reviewed).  The cost is $100/mo if you sign up for more than one month, and there is a price for just viewing lectures and game reviews.  Our own Bill Chiles is a student, and he expressed complete satisfaction.  It's a good way to get serious, fun games each month, and the reviews are the icing on the cake.  Bill says that each lesson brings him something new to apply to his games, a perspective he hadn't considered.  The E-Journal also mentioned the school in August:  https://www.usgo.org/news/2020/08/international-osaka-go-school-to-open-in-september/

Here's the full Zoom invitation, with calendar links etc.:

Seattle Go Center is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Game of Go Fun
Time: Oct 13, 2020 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
        Every week on Tue, until Nov 17, 2020, 6 occurrence(s)
        Oct 13, 2020 06:30 PM
        Oct 20, 2020 06:30 PM
        Oct 27, 2020 06:30 PM
        Nov 3, 2020 06:30 PM
        Nov 10, 2020 06:30 PM
        Nov 17, 2020 06:30 PM
Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.
Weekly: https://zoom.us/meeting/tJEld--vpzspGdELeySiBqPNkZsF0iZ1GgJR/ics?icsToken=98tyKuCtpjssHd2VsxqCRowMGoigM-3xmGJejad4sBr8MClxczPYPdhRFOJ2Kon3

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/95806790335

Meeting ID: 958 0679 0335
Passcode: empty3
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That's it for now.  Look for another email later this week.

See you soon at the (virtual) Go Center,