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Event Details
At NY Aikido Center, we will present to the public an annual event
entitled "The Human Spirit Festival." This event will offer lectures,
exhibitions, demonstrations and seminars lead by world-renown masters
of their respective art forms. We will be working with other recognized
institutions - non-profit, educational, and social, ...etc. - that promote
the arts, martial arts and other cultural programs to develop our community
presence and involvement.
Through these events, participants and spectators alike will be treated
to a unique glimpse directly into the heart of Japanese culture. They
will have a rare opportunity to learn from, ask questions of and simply
observe some of Japan's highest level masters, some of whom have been
perfecting their art forms for more than sixty years.
Our focus is to promote the traditional learning method of disciplined
practice and personal study of the arts under the direct guidance and
tutelage of a master level teacher. We will present programs that fall
within the two broad traditional paths of study, the aesthetic path
and the martial path. It can be said that both are mapped by the same
ethos, overlap and lead ultimately to the same destination - a person's
discovering harmony within, and developing the relationship between
themselves and the world in which they live. Through this event, we
will show that along either path, the sincere practitioner discovers
the highest elements of the art - an inherent understanding for the
need to discipline the self as a way of achieving one's personal goals,
thus discovering a vital, "inner" power. This is said to be the living
power behind each of the traditional art forms of Japan.
Through innovative exhibitions of traditional Japanese arts, we hope
to provide an arena at which people from all walks of life may gather,
and be empowered to cultivate harmony - within each one of ourselves,
and learn to coexist within our own families, our communities, our individual
countries and ultimately the world.
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