MELTING TOGETHER OF EAST AND WEST FUNDRAISER AND JAPANESE CULTURAL FESTIVAL

On October 11, WFWP Denver Chapter and the local Japanese community partnered to sponsor a fundraiser and an annual Japanese Cultural Festival. I don't know who had more fun, the adults or the kids! There were 30 adults and 14 children.

Mrs. Hisako Geschwind and Mrs. Shirley Chimes co-emceed the occasion and bowed to each other as a traditional form of respect. It was a great coming together of not only the American and Japanese cultures; others were represented as well.

The pictures show the fun we had eating, folding origami, doing the circle dance, and listening to a guest sing a song that the Japanese people sang after 9/11 to comfort the American people.

Adonia Hentrich and kids doing origami

Blessing Ngalame

Fundraising Gift Table

Heppell Family doing origami

Hisako Geschwind teaching origami

Ichinohe Family and friend KC doing origami

Introducing the Hentrich Family

Japanese Decor

Japanese Food Table

(L-R) Shirley Chimes, Alicia Ponce, Hisako Geschwind

Shirley Chimes (L) Hisako Geschwind (R)

Shirley and Hisako co-emcees