What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

Hello, everyone.

This is the chairperson of the remote practice on November 11, Yuko Tanihara.
Please be careful that it will be held online.

Genre: Reading and discussion
Title: Imaginary trip around the world

At first, please make some groups to have 4 members in each group.
Next, please choose 1 country in each group.
Then, discuss with your group members according the guidance sheets.
If you finish talking about that country, please choose another country.

Notice:
I am sorry to bother you, but could you please download the attached in advance?
I would like to ask someone sharing the material in each group (in a breakout room).

Just FYI, I chose Australia, France, Italy, South Korea, and the United States the last time (August 20, 2022), so I chose China, New Zealand, Mexico, Denmark, Spain, Turkey, and South Africa this time.

I hope you will enjoy it! See you on Nov 11.

Best wishes,
Yuko Tanihara

Hello , everyone

　　I have found a good material for our practice.

This time we would translate Haruki Murakami"s and Ogawa Yoko"s novels into Japanese.

I put these materials. ( attached materials were separated ) )

Takeo Kuchinaka

Title: November: Let’s describe and discuss each monthly topic!

Please make some groups having 4-5 members in each group.
At first, please choose your own topic from the following list or create your own idea that has something to do with November. No overlap over the topics in your group, please.

List of Topics
autumn leaves, kotatsu, frost, campfire, coat, shichigosan,labor thanksgiving day, pocky, beaujolais nouveau, camellia japonica, ginkgo nuts, leonids (shooting stars),Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday,or Your Own Idea.
Part 1: Design and construction of your prompt speech for 5 min.
Part 2: Present your speech for 1 min.
Part 3: Share idea and opinion on the presented topic in the group for 10 min.
*Repeat Part 2 and Part 3 after the first speaker in your group finishes the practice.

ESS-STaffs

The announcement about the practice on Dec. 2nd.

For the first 30 minutes, let’s enjoy a word, guessing and party game called Taboo. The objective of the game Taboo is for a player to have their partners guess the word on the player’s card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card.

And the next 30 or 40 minutes, let’s practice one minute speeches. In our daily life, the ability to do that confidently and competently is highly important.

For both Taboo games and one minute speeches practice, I will prepared the two separated envelopes. One envelope contains the slips of paper which you use for the word guessing game and the other one contains the slips on which topics are written for one minute speeches. Never open them until I say OK.
Let’s enjoy it. M.Oishi

This is an announcement for the online Practice planned for the 9th of December, 2023.

Title : What is YOUR museum definition?

Time schedule
18:00-18:05 Introduction
I will briefly explain the structure of the Practice and introduce the ICOM Museum Definition (see below for the background information).

18:05-18:25 Group discussion
Participants will join a breakout room of 3-4 people and talk about their own museum experience(s).
Please choose a timekeeper in your group and give each person up to 5 minutes to talk, so that everyone can speak.

You can talk about any museum visit(s) that you remember for any reason.
Please tell others what the museum was about, where it was, when/why you went there, who you went there with, and how you remember your museum experience(s).

If you have extra time after everyone's presentation, please ask questions to each other.
18:25-18:35 Free talk
Based on your own and others' museum experiences, the participants will exchange thoughts on the main question - what is YOUR museum definition?

18:35-18:40 Short conclusion and administrative notices from the ESS staff members

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Background - please read only if you are interested!

Do you know that there is such a thing as an international museum definition?
ICOM (the International Council of Museums), a global organisation of museums and museum professionals founded in 1946, has established and evolved an international museum definition in its history - here, let's name it the "ICOM Museum Definition".

The latest version of the ICOM Museum Definition was adopted last year, in 2022:

“A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage. Open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability. They operate and communicate ethically, professionally and with the participation of communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection and knowledge sharing.”
(https://icom.museum/en/resources/standards-guidelines/museum-definition/)
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...as you can see, there are too many conceptual, theoretical, or practical ideas in this definition to be discussed at all within 40 minutes!
So, instead of discussing the ICOM Museum Definition itself, the Practice will focus on talking about what museums mean to you.

In the end, I believe that there can be as many museum definitions as individuals, and I genuinely wish to learn your own versions of museum definitions based on your own museum experiences.
Thank you very much once again for inviting me to host this online Practice, I am looking forward to seeing you online soon!

All the best, Minamo Akiyama