The Memorial Japanese Culture Club organised a maid cafe event on Saturday (February 9) which was open to the public, free of cost. An well-attended event, it featured activities ranging from craft-making to Japanese games. A prize draw occurred later in the evening and cake and snacks were available to all.
We spoke with the club president Mikayla Pie about the Japanese Culture Club and its scheduled activities.
MUSE: How often do you hold this cafe event?
MIKAYLA: We do a different event every semester, so once a semester we have one main big event in The Landing and one monthly event in The Loft but usually we have a cafe event once a year.
MUSE: How many people are involved with the club?
MIKAYLA: It depends, every semester it fluctuates. But this semester there are 5 executive members.
MUSE: How may people get involved with the club?
MIKAYLA: We have a Facebook page, MUN Japanse Culture Club, as well as an instagram page which is MUNJCCNL. Anyone can get involved, it’s open to the public. We used to have weekly meetups but now we just have monthly ones. We encourage everyone who is interested, to join!
MUSE: What’s your favourite part about being in the culture club?
MIKAYLA: My favourite part about the culture club is that not only do we get to experience and enjoy the Japanese culture, we also get to blend all the different cultures together and experience things from around the world.
MUSE: What kind of other activities or events do you organise?
MIKAYLA: Previous events we’ve done included origami, calligraphy and things like that.
The Japanese Culture Club invites everyone interested to learn about a different culture or be reminded of their own some more, to join their committee and/or growing body of participants. The instagram for the Japanese Culture Club can be found below.