as i had counted 0221.com.arthe Bon Odori will be held again in La Plata after a 2-year hiatus and will take place next Saturday, February 25. The organizers now confirmed the scheduled date for the traditional celebration and began to spread various images on social networks summoning all the residents of the region to the party.
The event It will take place from 5:00 p.m. on the premises of the Japanese School of our city, at 186 and 482, Colonia Urquiza. The 2023 edition will be the XXII and will have a special meaning because it will mark the reunion with the public after having been with the blinds down during 2021 and 2022, due to the pandemic.
The coronavirus and the closure of January 2020 due to poisoning that affected several people who ate food in poor condition from one of the party stalls are now behind us. Now everything is ready for a new call.
Edition after edition, the Bon Odori is more and more crowded – around 20,000 people came to witness it in one day – and that aroused the interest of the Tokyo television channels. “A few years ago a Japanese channel came because they could not understand how thousands of people gathered in a field. They came to make notes and even gave away trips to Japan. They even said -and for this we are also proud- that outside of Japan it is the biggest festival”the Professor, Graduate in History and scholar of the Japanese community in La Plata, Irene Isabel Cafiero, told this portal weeks ago.
In the celebration everyone gets involved in a day full of music, lights and a lot of color in a huge two-hectare property that brings together the most varied samples of oriental culture. The event was declared of provincial and municipal interest more than a decade ago and year after year encompasses a mystique that for many is indecipherable.
The organization is the responsibility of the school’s board of directors, made up of only 10 people -fathers and mothers of the students- who have an exclusive mandate of one year. “The entire organization is transmitted year after year despite the fact that the people are different. That essence is what remains,” they describe. This commission is divided into 25 areas, each one with a person in charge and person in charge who specifically deals with all aspects of the event: food, sound, lights, parking, paperwork, security, logistics and others. Since May, everything begins to be managed: from the layout of the shows to the purchase of edible products and the permits that must be processed with the Municipality.
“There is a department of singing, odori, women’s, men’s, table tennis, baseball; everyone helps, and it is ad honorem. On Friday we all go to cut onions, bell peppers, they are stored in refrigerators in trucks and at the Another day others go early to cook. Then, the day after the Bon Odori you have to disarm, and each one will continue working on their own,” the historian explained.
The appointment is made for Saturday February 25 and as usual, everything is already calculated, without any detail left to chance. The celebration will begin at 5:00 p.m. and it was reported that in case of rain it will be automatically postponed to Sunday the 26th. For more information, the website is bon-odori.com.ar.
