Japan Connect: Presentation & Performance

Thursday, March 27, 2014, 6 - 8pm

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High school students from Wasedajuku, a prep school in Japan, will give presentations about their lives in a free, public event.  Wasedajuku students focus on leadership and international communications.

The student presentations will be followed by a performance by Sara Galas Band. Based in New York City, the multi-culturual quartet whose members hail from Italy, Japan and Guatamala will play its own original songs.

Located in The Great Hall, in the Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues

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