SWET Summer Party at the Kantokutei, Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

Date: Sunday, August 3, 2014
Time: 5:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Place: Koishikawa Korakuen Garden (Iidabashi area; see here for a map and how to get there by train or subway)
Fee: Free of charge
RSVP: By August 1, 2014 (Friday) to events@swet.jp

We will have the use of the large dining room at the Kantokutei restaurant, at the entrance to the garden. The party will be “potluck”* and BYOB. Please bring something to contribute to the nibbles and beverages so that we can enjoy and share dishes & drinks of our own choice. SWET will provide paper cups, chopsticks, plates, and napkins.

*Please note: “Potluck” can mean whatever portable snack or dish you can bring to contribute to the feast given your circumstances at the time--not just home-prepared dishes, but a block of cheese, a bunch of grapes, a bag of potato chips, a loaf of bread, a bottle of pickles, a package of luncheon meat, something from the o-sozai section of the supermarket, etc. The pleasure of potluck is seeing what comes together.

As the food is sure to come together, do take this chance to: enjoy a pre-party stroll around one of Tokyo’s nicest landscape gardens (the entrance fee is ¥300*), which will be pleasant in the late afternoon of a hot August day; call on far-flung friends to meet up in central Tokyo; and gather with other wordsmiths for stimulating conversation and networking. 

* Please note also: Entry to the garden is only possible until 4:30 p.m.

SWET held its 2009 summer party at Koishikawa Korakuen with a talk by Enbutsu Sumiko. The article about that event includes information about this venue.