BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Bruach Official Website - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://bruach.info X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Bruach Official Website REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20250101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260131T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260131T160000 DTSTAMP:20260421T132838 CREATED:20260119T213526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T131019Z UID:704-1769864400-1769875200@bruach.info SUMMARY:🇯🇵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Japan Society of Scotland – 39th Annual General Meeting DESCRIPTION:🎤 Guest Speakers: BRUACH\nThe Japan Society of Scotland (JSOS) is delighted to welcome Bruach as guest speakers for its 39th Annual General Meeting\, celebrating 40 years of cultural exchange (1986–2026). \nThis special event will explore Bruach’s experiences in Japan\, including their participation in Expo 2025 Osaka\, and how shared musical traditions continue to deepen cultural connections between Scotland and Japan. \n\n📍 Event Details\n📅 Date: Saturday 31st January 2026⏰ Time: 1:00 pm🚪 Doors open: 12:30 pm \n📌 Venue:University of Edinburgh40 George SquareRoom LG.11 \n🎟️ This is a FREE event📝 Sign-up required👥 In person & Zoom attendance available \n\n🎶 Programme Highlights\nBruach at Osaka Expo 2025\n🌏 International Expo performance experience – Sean \n🎵 Other live gigs and charity events – Davie \n🍱 Food culture and everyday life in Japan – Niall \n🎎 Introduction to Japanese traditional court music Gagaku and instruments – Pheely \n🌸 The future of music and cultural exchange – Kayo \n\n🌉 Theme\nThe Japan Experience and Japanese Traditional Music – GagakuDeepening the Cultural Bridge through Shared Musical Experience \nThrough storytelling\, music\, and visual material\, Bruach will share how cross-cultural collaboration creates understanding beyond language and borders. \n\n✨ Join Us\nThis event marks a special milestone for JSOS as it celebrates 40 years of Scotland–Japan friendship\, and offers a unique opportunity to hear first-hand experiences of international cultural exchange through music. \nWe warmly invite members and guests to join us for this inspiring afternoon. \n \nZOOM attendance: please register here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4kDDxhCDQZGuYLjXxo67uQ\n\n\nThe AGM should take about 30 minutes and after that our guest speakers will be the folk/pop band BRUACH who were invited to play at the Osaka Expo 2025.  They will talk about their experience of being at the Expo and their introduction to traditional Gagaku music.  So a lovely cultural exchange to kick off our 40th Anniversary year.\nIn person attendance\, please contact URL:https://bruach.info/event/%f0%9f%87%af%f0%9f%87%b5%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%a7-the-japan-society-of-scotland-39th-annual-general-meeting/ LOCATION:Edinbrough University\, 40 George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Bruach Gig 2026,Bruach Lecture END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR