Aikido Kenkyukai Santa Barbara announced Monday its ongoing plans to raise money for the victims of the Japan disaster.
“We’ve already begun raising funds online,” said Lia Suzuki, chief instructor and a former resident of Japan.
Ms Suzuki said the belt ceremony at 2:30 p.m. April 9 at the organization’s training facility, 121A E. Mason St. will double as a fundraiser.
“It just seemed like the logical this to do.”, Ms Suzuki told the News-Press.
Ms. Suzuki said she never saw people run out of a building during a tremor or an earthquake in the nearly 10 years she lived in Japan.
Watching events unfold on the news and seeing people flee from buildings, “I knew right then that it was serious,” she said.
The money AK Santa Barbara raises online and at the April 9 event will go to help affected members of the international aikido community, Ms. Suzuki said.
For more information or to make a donation, go to www.aksb.org
Carolyn Bolton
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Online fundraising starts NOW: Donate Here
Events…
Wednesdays, 6:15-6:30pm: “Gasshou” (putting the palms together)
We invite people from age 3 to 100 (aikido practitioners and non-practitioners, alike) to sit in meditation/prayer/silence between the teens & adults beginners class and adults’ “Gohdou Keiko”.
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- Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm: ”Gohdou Keiko” or Joint/Collaborative Training
We invite Aikido-ists from all affiliations and all dojos to come to our dojo to train together.
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- April 9th, 2:30pm: Kids’ Belt Ceremony
Fundraiser event at the dojo. Come support the kids, congratulating them on their recent achievement.
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