posted May 22, 2012 10:22 PM by Matt Wilkie
Unanticipated events have left Aikido Yukon
without any instructors to teach the Wednesday & Thursday childrens
classes and the Friday youth class.
Please accept our apologies
for the inconvenience, we really tried to find something that would
work, and I hope the notice is early enough for you to make alternate
arrangements.
Adult classes are unaffected, long time senior student Theo Forewell is filling in for both Gaël and Mary's classes.
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posted Apr 29, 2012 10:49 PM by Matt Wilkie
Hello Everyone. I thought the Childrens Fitness Tax Credit receipts were available on-demand for clients the same way regular
receipts are, through the Amilia registration interface. As it turns out generating tax receipts is something we need to do from the admin
side. My apologies for not getting these documents to you earlier. To
be in compliance with Revenue Canada's rules, Aikido Yukon needs to
distribute these receipts to clients before February 15th every year. So
if you don't receive your 2012 CFTC receipt by, say, Feb 7th 2013,
please send a reminder.
I'm about to generate the receipts for all our students for 2010 and
2011. They get sent to the primary address of the account holder on
Amilia. Please contact me if you don't receive what you expect. best regards,
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- matt wilkie
for www.aikidoyukon.ca, info@aikidoyukon.ca
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posted Apr 27, 2012 12:23 AM by Matt Wilkie
The administration screwed up (that would be *cough* yours truly). All children and youth classes for the 2012 Spring Session were unintentionally marked 15-20% off! Too late to do anything about it now though, so Enjoy!
In the event there's a spontaneous arising of gratitude at the unexpected windfall, proceeds for refundables at Raven Recycling can be donated to Aikido Yukon (with Recycling Club Points still going to yourselves of course).
-Matt Wilkie
Le (sheepish) Président de Aikido Yukon
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posted Apr 17, 2012 7:54 PM by Matt Wilkie
A troupe of five Noh artists and two assistants, direct from Japan, will be offering a Noh Lecture/Demonstration on Tuesday, May 8 at the Yukon Arts Centre.
It is one of the stops on a Canada-wide tour by the group, which is
sponsored by the Foreign Ministry of Japan. It is open to the general
public and admission is free, courtesy of the Foreign Ministry and the Japan Foundation. In
this Lecture/Demonstration, the group of artists will talk about
history of Noh, its stories, and the masks. They will also demonstrate
dance movements, costume preparation, musical instruments. Finally, of
course, the artists will perform excerpts from famous Noh plays. Noh, or Nôgaku能楽, is classical Japanese theatre and its history goes back to the 14th
century. The oldest of the three major traditional Japanese theatres –
Noh, Kabuki, and Bunraku – Noh is akin to Zen Buddhism in its
aesthetics and spirituality. It is a kind of symbolic drama colored
with the graceful aesthetic effect of quiet elegance that is expressed
through the word yûgen 幽玄("elegant,
refined, and elusive beauty"). More often than not, the main actor
performs while wearing a characteristic Noh mask. His stylized
action/dance is accompanied by singing, chanting and music performed by
the instrumentalists. The pursuit of a symbolic ideal beauty of this
ancient Japanese performing art is certain to captivate the audience and
transport them from their everyday life to a mysterious, spiritual
world. In 2001, UNESCO added the art of Nogaku to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. For more information, call Fumi Torigai, president of the Japanese Canadian Association of Yukon at 393-2588. |
posted Mar 22, 2012 1:23 PM by Matt Wilkie
Anyone going east next month? Toshiro Suga, 7th dan, will be giving a seminar April 27-29 at Carlton University, courtesy of our own Pascale Roy-Léveillée, email her at carlton.aikido@live.com for more info.
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posted Feb 28, 2012 10:33 PM by Matt Wilkie
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updated Mar 19, 2012 12:22 PM
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posted Feb 21, 2012 10:01 PM by Matt Wilkie
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updated Mar 18, 2012 1:54 AM
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Tuesday March 20, 6:30-8:30pm
at Sport Yukon, 4061-4th Ave, Whitehorseplease note the start time change of 6:30
Anyone interested in the practice of aikido is welcome. It's a good
opportunity to meet some of the faces behind the organisation and those
that participate on different days. You don't need to be a current
student or member of Aikido Yukon; likewise intention to volunteer or
join the board is welcome but not necessary.
Agenda:
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Eat good food and enjoy each others' company
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Talk (a bit) about happenings of the past year (seminars held and
visited, new 1st kyu & black belts, a dear departed, strategic
planning workshop, curriculum development, volunteer appreciation)
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Annual financial report
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Farewell to leaving board members,
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Hello to new ones a.k.a. election of new board members (maybe you?)
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Wrap up
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posted Feb 19, 2012 11:46 AM by Aikido Yukon
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updated Feb 19, 2012 11:52 AM
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Hello Everyone,
A while ago we advised all Dojo’s we would be aligning our Kyu and Yudansha rank testing requirements to those used by Hombu Dojo. This was after consulting with our Technical Director and discussing amongst the senior Aikido members.
Attached is a new master test list which reflects those requirements.The list of techniques have fewer items than before and the minimum time between grades is shorter. Chief instructors of Dojo’s are free to add requirements but the ones listed will be considered the primary and absolute minimum needed.
In addition while there are fewer techniques for each rank the quality of the demonstration will be held to a higher standard. That may well require longer training times than listed and in fact would be expected for most people.
Lastly, the time between ranks is a “minimum” period of time the CAF requires to process a promotion. It does not mean students are automatically eligible for promotion upon reaching the minimum training times.
All the best, Douglas Mathieu, Secretary The Canadian Aikido Federation La Fédération Canadienne d'Aikido 56 Somerset PK SW Calgary, AB T2Y 3H4 Ph: 403-201-7108 E-mail: dmathieu@telus.netWeb Page: www.canadianaikidofederation.ca
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posted Jan 30, 2012 2:44 PM by Matt Wilkie
30 Jun - 06 Jul 2012- Hayato Osawa Shihan of Hombu dojo will be the main instructor at the first annual Canadian Aikido Federation
Summer Camp to be held in Kelowna, BC at the UBC-Okanagan campus. The first day of camp will be 30 June and the last day will be 06 July 2012. Arrange for accommodations Conferences & Accommodation, UBC, Okanagan Campus.
More details will be posted on the CAF website as they become available (where there's also info on BC seminars for Feb 11th and March 9th in Abbotsford and Kelowna).
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posted Jan 9, 2012 10:47 PM by Matt Wilkie
The Japanese Canadian Association of Yukon (JCAY) is pleased to announce the upcoming Japanese Film Nights. Thursday & Friday, January 12th & 13th at the Yukon Arts Centre.
Thursday Jan. 12 at 7PM - Paprika by Satoshi Kon - When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Groundbreaking animator Satoshi Kon directed this visually spectacular adaptation of a science fiction novel by Yatsutaka Tsutsui. 2006 - Rated R - Japanese with English Subtitles - 90minsFriday Jan. 13 at 7PM - Maborosi by Hirokazu Koreeda - Winner of the 1995 best director award at the Venice Film Festival, Hirokazu Koreeda's feature-length directorial debut "Maborosi" is a hauntingly beautiful film about a young woman who faces an inexplicable death of her husband. 1995 - Rated PG - Japanese with English Subtitles - 110mins |
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