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October 2009
In this issue:
- TW Developing New Public Resources, Sneak Peek
- Upcoming Events
- Anne Parry Honored with TW Peacemaker Award
- Promoting at Honbu
- Promoting at TW
Feature Article
TW Developing New Public Resources, Sneak Peek at Harassment Handout
After launching our new website four months ago to wide acclaim, Thousand Waves is busily creating a set of public resources which will be added to the website in coming months. The resources include a media center, photo archives, a more expanded mission and history section, and a full set of violence prevention and self-defense resources—free and downloadable. We are providing readers with a sneak peak of these resources by sharing a handout about responding to harassment.
Seido's 33rd Anniversary Celebration
October 16-18th (Friday-Sunday)
Jun Shihan Nancy and a team of students including Senpai Jo Willis, Matt Birnholz, Sophie Michals, Rick Toboz, Annie Gregory, Lauren Schwendimann, and Michele Curley will represent Thousand Waves at Seido's upcoming 33rd Anniversary celebration. In addition to taking classes at honbu, members of the group will participate in Kaicho's annual benefit tournament featuring exciting kata, kumite, and breaking competitions for Seido practitioners from honbu as well as domestic and international branches.
Fall 4-Week Self-Defense Course Begins
October 19th (Monday)
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Call and Response: Being an Advocate Every Day October 20th (Tuesday) Thousand Waves' Marie O'Brien will be a panelist at the Younger Women's Task Force's Fall Education Event, Call and Response: Being an Advocate Every Day, discussing safe and effective ways to intervene in domestic violence situations. This public event runs from 6:00-8:00pm at the YMCA Chicago, 101 North Wacker Dr. RSVP required. More information at www.ywtf.org/YWTF/chicago.aspx |
| Punch & Kick-a-Thon October 24th (Saturday) Punch & Kick-a-Thon Regular children’s classes are cancelled this day, but all adult classes will be held as usual. Punch & Kick-a-Thon is one of Thousand Waves’ two annual fundraising events. On October 24th, karate students as young as four and youth up to age 14 will undertake the physical, mental, and spirit challenge of completing 500 (4 year olds to 2nd graders) or 1,000 (3rd graders through 14 year olds) punches and kicks. If you would learn more, please view at this informational flyer. If you would like to register, sponsor a participant, or make a general donation please visit the Punch & Kick-a-Thon website. |
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Junior and Adult Black Belt Testing at Thousand Waves Adult Color Belt Test Color Belt Tests for Children |
| Thousand Waves Closed for Thanksgiving November 26–27th (Thursday and Friday) |
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Community Outreach
Anne Parry Honored with TW Peacemaker Award On September 19th, TW’s free public lecture and discussion series, Meditations on Activism, now in its eighth year, hosted Anne Parry, Director of the Office of Violence Prevention at the Chicago Department of Public Health and long time anti-violence educator, activist, researcher and executive. She spoke about her latest work, Psychological First Aid, a guide to supporting well-being during difficult times. Ms. Parry was inspiring and instructive, and provided us with concrete tools to provide positive, pro-active healing responses to those who have been exposed to violence or experienced trauma of any kind. |
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Member News
Report from Senior Black Belt Testing
On Wednesday October 7th Eric Franque, Kathy Tanner and Ben Samuels-Kalou shared their recent experiences at Honbu, the headquarters of the World Seido Karate Organization in New York City, where the karate-ka tested for advanced promotions. Eric Franque is now a third degree black belt, Kathy Tanner is now a second degree black belt and Ben Samuels-Kalou is a first degree black belt. Joy Williamson, the head of our sister school Sun Dragon in Austin, Texas also tested and was promoted to second degree black belt, and her student K.J. Scheib was promoted to first degree black belt, although neither reporting on Wednesday as they returned home to Texas post testing.
Congratulations to all Karate-ka that promoted in September 2009:
| Aaron Alberg Aaron Shafer Adam Flam A.J. Meyers Akil Mitchell Ana Gore Andre Nandi Annie Gregory Arturo Jauregui Ashley Savoie Ayers Evans Ben Rachlis Brianna O'Malley Carter Napoli-Tager Christopher Meyers Clio Kidwell Dharma Seda Gonzalez Diane Miller Diego Jauregui Elliot Phillips Evan Burleigh Everton Levy Gabe Muenzer |
George McCoy Halle Gold Hannah Rachlis Heather Shannon Henry Moskal Henry Nishiura-Groves Hope Robinson Isabella Cartagena Jack Savoie Jayne Spottswood Johnny Hollowed Joseph Friedman Joshua Baumstark Kalina Fleming-Lopez Lars Anderson Lauren Schwendimann Lazar Sestovic Liam Dahlborn Lily Reeves Lizzy May Mark Hubert Mary Wei Mateus Jobes |
Matthew Trigo Max McCoy Maximillian Barrios Maxwell Buttny Michael Youngblood Michele Curley Nora Begy Payton Shearn Rick Toboz Ron May Sam Brown Sara King Sayira Khokhar Shelby Donahue Sophia Newman Sophie Reese-Wirpsa Thomas Culverhouse Todd Scales Tony Aguirre Will Glynn Zoe Arvanitakis |