Kia ora!

As a few people have asked me if I am willing to revive the rakugo club, I am writing this to suss out if there is enough interest out there to resume the group.

Learning from my past mistakes, I will approach it a bit differently this time if you are interested in participating in this only rakugo community in New Zealand.

1. As it is the traditional way, I am still willing to teach rakugo free of charge. However, this time I’d like the participants to organise a venue for me. I want to focus on just teaching rakugo (in the past, I had to do most of the admin myself).
2. This time I will make, for example, a 10 week-long curriculum to end the term with a public performance. I’d like students who actually want to perform at the end of the programme.
3. The problem of a free programme was that many people didn’t show up regularly, but this time I’d expect participants to show up at least 80% of the sessions.
4. I have a few women’s kimono donated to the club for you to use, but otherwise you will need to organise your own kimono. A very cheap ones can be purchased for $30-50 at Asia Gallery Kimono Emporium.
5. If you don’t live in Auckland, please do not contact me regarding this (as it happens a lot!). If you do, I am sorry but I will disregard your message!

If you are interested in getting involved, please message me via the contact page or one of my SNS.

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