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Dear Chapter Members and Guests,

Our INS SoCA Chapter will be having a meeting this Sunday, Feb. 26, from High Noon to 3PM, at Loyola Marymount University, at the William H. Hannon Library, located at One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659,

This will be a very special meeting, where we will be able to see, and discuss, the Kinsey Contemporary Netsuke Collection, and Contemporary Netsuke, in general.  Richard Silverman, our very own INS Chapter's world class authority on Contemporary Netsuke will be our lecturer, and Ms. Cynthia Becht, Head, Archives and Special Collections of LMU's William H. Hannon Library, will be our Host.  Please bring white gloves if you have them; if you don't, there should be enough in supply.

Sorry for the later than usual notice, but the access details were a bit tricky, due to LMU being on Spring Break
 - remember Spring Break?
- I suspect that this looks harder than it really will be . . . .

Here's what you need to know, to gain access,
after you figure out how to get to the LMU Campus and the William H. Hannon Library on the LMU Campus:
 - this link may help those who use Google Maps   http://maps.google.com/
 - paste the link below into your Browser,
or go on Google Maps and type
"LMU William H. Hannon Library," and that should also do the trick: 

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=LMU%27s+William+H.+Hannon+Library&hl=en&cid=1711250124143114348

- The front door of the William H. Hannon Library should be open;.
- An LMU Public Safety Officer will be on guard at this front door to let only attendees to our INS SoCA Chapter Meeting inside.
- Once inside, please take the elevators or stairs up two floors to the top (third) floor.
- The Von der Ahe Suite will be open; that is where we will be meeting.
- Both Ms. Becht and I will be on the third floor, awaiting your arrival.

I am copying Ms. Becht with this notice, to make sure that I understand these instructions correctly and have explained them understandably.

I sincerely hope that all of you can make it to the meeting this Sunday.  If I have missed anybody by cutting and pasting the email list once too often, please let them, and me, know!
 
with Kindest Regards,
David

David S. White
INS SoCA Chapter Chair
12401 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 200
Los Angeles CA 90025-1089
dsw90049@gmail.com
O: 310-571-0300
F: 310-571-0707
C: 310-721-7345

Please join the NEW YORK Chapter of the INTERNATIONAL NETSUKE SOCIETY

                                     at its next meeting:

                            Sunday, February 19, 2012

Szechuan Chalet

1395 Second Avenue (near 72nd/73rd Streets)

Restaurant phone:  212-737-1838

Our speaker at this meeting will be our own NYC chapter member, Dieuwke Eijer, who is also the author of the book Kagamibuta: Mirrors of Japanese Life and Legend.  The topic of Dieuwke’s presentation will be Serial work in Kagamibuta.  Here are Dieuwke’s comments about the talk she will present: 

I will discuss three types of serial work in kagamibuta. There are the identical kagamibuta, that look like they came out of a mold, almost ready to be sold. And then there are pieces that show a partially identical image, while the rest of each of those kagamibuta is more or less individually decorated. Some techniques encourage serializing and we do see them being used in these two groups.  A third group consists of images that definitely go back to one design, but the kagamibuta are manufactured in such techniques that make each of these kagamibuta a unique piece. Thus we may not realize, that they are – in a way – part of a series. If you have a kagamibuta in your collection that you suspect of being serial work, bring it!

If you have any other netsuke you would like to bring with you, please feel free to bring them. 

Dieuwke’s talks are always extremely interesting and informative, so please come join us at our meeting. 

Please also bring cash for your food/drink.

RSVP to:  Jeffrey Klotz, 973-616-2988 or jklotz@takaraasianart.com 

Best regards,

Jeffrey

Please join the NEW YORK chapter of the INTERNATIONAL NETSUKE SOCIETY

at its next meeting:  Sunday, December 4, 2011, at 2:00 P.M.

at Szechuan Chalet

1395 Second Avenue (near 72nd/73rd Streets)

Restaurant phone:  212-737-1838

It's time, once again, for our own Bob Goode to present his annual junishi (zodiac) lecture.  The zodiacal animal for the coming year is the dragon.  The dragon is one of the most common supernatural creatures found in both Western and Eastern Mythology. Bob will discuss the role of the dragon in the culture of China and Japan, with emphasis on the many ways it is represented in  antique and contemporary netsuke .

If you have any dragon netsuke or any other netsuke you would like to share with our group, please bring them to the meeting.   

Please also bring cash for your food/drink.

Please RSVP to:  Jeffrey Klotz, 973-616-2988  or jklotz@takaraasianart.com

I hope you will join us there.

Jeffrey

The next INS SoCA Chapter Meeting is on Sunday, November 13, 2011, from noon, sharp, to 3 P.M.
We will be meeting this time at Richard Silverman's condo, which Richard has graciously offered for our use.  Jeff Klotz, of Takara Asian Art (www.takaraasianart.com), will be our Guest Lecturer.  Jeff's topic will be the cutting-edge work of Clive Hallam.  If you have any of Clive's work, please bring it to the meeting so that we can discuss it!

So that we can be sure to have seating for all, please RSVP for your attendance at this meeting ASAP when you receive this email.   And please, bring a friend!

We will not be meeting in crowded restaurants any more, and we need your attendance to re-build this Chapter.  If you missed our October Chapter meeting, where Paul Moss gave (not one, not two, but . . . ) three, separate PowerPoint lectures, you missed a very good one, but we had about half of the number that we could have had.
Please try very hard to make this one, and you won't be sorry!

Parking is free on the Beverly Hills, West side of Doheny - not on the East side (West Hollywood side), but you can also valet park at Richard's building. 

Richard Silverman's address is:
838 N. Doheny Dr., No. 1102,

West Hollywood, CA 90069
The meeting room is right off the first floor lobby.

Hope to see you all there!

with Kindest Regards,
David

INS SoCA Chapter Chair
12401 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 200
Los Angeles CA 90025-1089
dsw90049@gmail.com
O: 310-571-0300
F:  310-571-0707
C:  310-721-7345

On or about Monday, October 17, 2011, the new INS website will go active. In an attempt to keep up with the latest in Internet technology, we are moving to a platform with newer technology via www.wildapricot.com.

Here are a few things you might need to know:

The new site has been reorganized for a more logical access, but contains all of the old contents.

In the Members Only part of the site, you will be able to check, control, add, and change your contact information, as well as select who can see this information and more. We encourage all Members to check it out and update their information and settings as appropriate.

Members who don’t have email addresses, or have not registered them with us, will still be contacted via snail mail.

Members who do have email addresses will be able to manage their membership themselves via Wild Apricot (WA). WA will send out renewal notices and the member will be able to click on a link to our website to pay their dues online. The member will receive an automated receipt and will be sent a notification of the renewal and transaction details.

We know that privacy is a key concern for all of us. By default, WA does not display or disclose any member’s profile or personal information in any way, without the member explicitly giving their approval. By default, a member’s profile is not shown in any online directory. A member will need to explicitly change their profile settings if they would like to have their information shown in the online directory which will only be accessible to other members in good standing. The Directory Publication preferences are listed in each person’s Profile page and members can choose to be included or not. We hope this puts everyone at ease.

To view or change your settings, you go to: www.netsuke.org, then: View Profile -> Edit Profile -> Privacy -> Allow to show online -> and then click on as many details as you would like to be displayed. You can also add your avatar image in the profile section.

You will be getting two versions of this email, this one from Constant Contact, and one from us via Wild Apricot, telling you how to start.

We will be able to send out eBlasts from within this new system, removing the need for a separate eBlast system (now Constant Contact).

We hope you and the rest of the netsuke world will visit the site, see what it offers, and see how you and the Society can benefit from it.

Norman L. Sandfield

INS Webmaster

Good News!

Our INS Website, www.netsuke.org, which has been down since last Friday (depending upon your time zone), will be back up within the next 24-48 hours. Aisha Buntin, who is our hands-on Website Technician, as been on top of it since the outage initially occurred.

The indirect cause involved the process of allowing us to switch to our new website service. The direct cause is several levels of miscommunication from one of the services we use.

We thank you for your patience, and apologize for any inconvenience and confusion. To those Members who notified us as soon as they noticed the problem, a very special thanks!

We will be going through the transition to our brand-new website, hosted on Wild Apricot, on or about Monday, October 17. Again, the transition will occur at an unpredictable time during a 48-hour window, the specific time being out of our control.

Around that date, most of you will be getting two emails from us. One from the new Wild Apricot website, telling you in detail how to see and change your contact information and settings (opt-in, opt-out, etc.). A very similar email through Constant Contact will tell you the same things. We will all go through the rest of the learning curve together, with the ultimate goal of better service at a state-of-the-art Internet service!

Lest you think we are uniquely at fault here, I wish to quote from a story in yesterday’s news: “Bank of America says its website is back to normal after technical problems caused two days of sporadic outages.”

Sincerely,

Norman L. Sandfield

INS Web Master

WE HAVE OFFICIALLY CHANGED OUR MEETING VENUE FOR OUR FIRST FALL INS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER MEETING ON THIS COMING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2011, TO ACCOMMODATE PAUL MOSS' LECTURE MORE COMFORTABLY!!

I have reserved a meeting room at the Marriott Residence Inn Hotel located at 1177 S. Beverly Dr. (@ the NW corner of Pico - right down the street from where we had the INS Convention last May) from noon to 3pm.  Because I have been living at this hotel since last April (lucky me), they slashed the price to a true bargain of only $243.50 (from $500)
- I will take care of the payment later today; if anybody would like to chip in on the cost, please let me know!  All contributions gratefully accepted.  I have also ordered a PowerPoint projector for Paul Moss' talk.

Residence Inn Beverly Hills

1177 South Beverly Drive · Los Angeles, California 90035 USA

We will not be serving food, so please have a hearty brunch before you come.

Here's the information on the hotel:

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/laxrb-residence-inn-beverly-hills/

Directions are here:

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/maps/travel/laxrb-residence-inn-beverly-hills/

Street parking on Beverly and adjacent streets (Smithwood, behind the hotel) is free on Sunday, but, if you park in the hotel it is expensive and we can't validate.

I hope that those of you who were not coming, due to not liking the Cheesecake Factory as a meeting venue, will now be able to attend!
Again, if I have missed anybody, please let them know!

Thanks & See you very soon.
with Kindest Regards,
David White
INS SoCA Chapter Chair
12401 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 200
Los Angeles CA 90025-1089
dsw90049@gmail.com
O: 310-571-0300
F:  310-571-0707
C:  310-721-7345

   Please join the NEW YORK chapter of the INTERNATIONAL NETSUKE SOCIETY

   at its next meeting:  Sunday, October 9, 2011     2:00 P.M.

Szechuan Chalet

1395 Second Avenue (near 72nd/73rd Streets) 

Restaurant phone:  212-737-1838

I will present a talk on Clive Hallam and his work.  Clive is one of the most talented and innovative artists carving netsuke today.  Furthermore, both he and his work are exceptionally interesting. 

I will present some background information about Clive, give some information about his perspective on carving netsuke, and show pictures of some of his work.

If you have any netsuke that were carved by Clive or any other netsuke you would like to share with our group, please bring them to the meeting.    

Please also bring cash for your food/drink.

RSVP to:  Jeffrey Klotz, 973-616-2988 or jklotz@takaraasianart.com 

The INS Journal is being mailed on Thursday, August 25th.  All subscribers should know that no requests for replacements will be considered until the end of September, due to the slow delivery by various postal authorities.  We have already had inquiries "where's my Journal?" since some people assumed a July or early August delivery.  Eric and Karen Knudson, who are responsible for these issues, will be unavailable for the next few weeks, and are not able to reply to emails about deliveries.

We all appreciate your patience!

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Norman L. Sandfield

INS Constant Contact Email Blast Master