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"Ten Thousand Things" is a Buddhist expression representing the dynamic interconnection and simultaneous unity and diversity of everything in the universe.

. . from Boston to Osaka (Dec. 16) to Tokyo (in January '08) -- FOUR STORIES JAPAN

Again, from The Paleonymy Project, a literary and cultural website edited by Winnie Shiraishi, news of more upcoming transnational literary events -- in Osaka and Tokyo.

This is an exciting part of a global wave of transnational performing, visual and literary arts. The most spectacular, borderless in spirit, and oceanic of these event is in Columbia: the International Poetry Festival of Medellin, where 72 poets from 52 countries recited for over 10 days in 2007, at readings attended by thousands. Not quite as explosively as in Medellin, which is like the Krakatoa of transnational creative outpouring, these artistic springs are showing up everywhere, usually locally generated, but part of a global Zeitgeist that is fascinating.

On December 16, at 6pm-8pm (event opens @ 5), FOUR STORIES JAPAN will hold a reading in Osaka.

Readings by Tracy Slater, Four Stories Boston and Four Stories Japan founder; Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, <>author of Aquiline; Chris Page, author of the novel, Weed, and editor of Kansai Scene magazine; and Michael Vezzuto, columnist for Kansai Time Out magazine.

Location: Portugalia
Nishi-Tenma 4-12-11, Umeda,
[Just north of the American Consulate]
06-6362-6668
Osaka, Japan

In January, 2008, the next Four Stories event will be held at the Pink Cow restaurant and art bar in Tokyo.

Eric Johnston's article "Four Stories rises in Osaka's 'cultural desert:' American woman creates old-fashioned literary salon for lovers of the written word" tells the story about how Tracy Slater, who lives between Boston and Osaka, conceived and started this transnational tri-city event.

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