Lunar New Year Performances
Lunar New Year!
Yukai Daiko will be performing at Hedrick Hall tomorrow, January 29, 2014, for Hedrick Court’s Lunar New Year’s celebration! Stop by the Fireside Lounge at 7:00 PM for free food, games, and cultural performances including Japanese Taiko!
Yukai Daiko will also be performing for Mattel on Thursday, January 30, 2014, for another Lunar New Year’s celebration!
Generation 10!
Yukai Daiko would like to thank everyone who attended our Fall 2013 Trial Period. It has been an amazing experience teaching people who come from varying musical backgrounds the art of Taiko. We admire the passion, commitment, and positive attitude towards learning that many of you demonstrated. We hope that everyone who attended will stay updated with our upcoming events.
Without further adue, Yukai Daiko would like to warmly welcome Generation 10 to our Yukai family:
Jessica Huynh
Alex Ding
Daniel Keating
Koji Nishikawa
Junyi Wang
Kevin Lin
Sehwan Oh
Trial Period!
Yukai Daiko would like to proudly present Trial Period! During this time, we will be offering free workshops on Fridays and Saturdays for the next six weeks. We will be teaching the basics of how to play Taiko, and also sharing a few of our songs. We would like to thank everyone who came to our Open House, and we hope you had such a great time, that you’ll attend Trial Period! Our first workshop is this Friday, October 11, at 8:00pm. Meet us at the Bruin Bear!
Bruin Plaza and Open House
Yukai Daiko would like to thank everyone who came to meet us during the Enormous Activities Fair. Now it’s time we show you how Taiko looks and sounds like! Come watch us perform at Bruin Plaza on Thursday, October 3, 2013 from 12pm-3pm. Also, meet us at the Bruin Bear at 8pm on Friday, October 4, 2013 for our Open House Performance. We hope to see you soon!
Stay tuned for our upcoming Taiko Workshops where we teach you how to play Taiko!
Activities Fair!
Summer is over, and Yukai Daiko has returned! UCLA’s Enormous Activities Fair is on September 23, 2013 from 9am-2pm;this is a perfect time to introduce yourselves! Yukai Daiko would love to meet everyone who is interested in learning about Taiko, so stop by and see what we’re all about!
Yukai Daiko will also be performing at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. This will take place on Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 6:00 PM for the benefit and opening night for the Japanese play Shun-kin. Come support Yukai Daiko on a wonderful evening, and experience the art of Taiko! Hope to see you there!
Chain Reaction Fundraiser
On August 18, 2013 Yukai Daiko performed at the Bergamot Station Arts Complex in Santa Monica, for the “Chain Reaction” fundraiser and public awareness event. Chain Reaction refers to a sculpture shaped like a mushroom cloud, which is scheduled to be taken down by the city of Santa Monica. The purpose of the fundraiser was to save Chain Reaction, which is a monument to the usage of the atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and a reminder of the resulting devastation.
Yukai Daiko joined food trucks, businesses, artists, and other musicians in an effort to save the anti-nuclear sculpture known as “Chain Reaction.” 
Yukai Daiko – Generation 9
Yukai Daiko would like to thank everyone who attended the fall 2012 trial period. We take great pride in teaching people with diverse musical talents and levels of musicianship the art of taiko, and fall quarter is the only time we are granted this opportunity. Each participant made a dynamic impression, and we hope that you all will continue to stay updated with our current events and come back next year.
The end of trial period marks the beginning of the taiko journey for the next generation of Yukai Daiko members. Yukai Daiko would like to welcome its 9th generation to the Yukai Daiko family:
Tony San Pedro
Amy Chan
Jalynn Zou
Crystal Lee
Bevin Chan
Cory Ferris
Alina Quach
Sam Suman
Nara Zhou
Alice Wang
Willa Chen
Open House and Trial Period
Ever wanted to learn how to play taiko, or Japanese drumming? Want to meet new friends and check out a neat student group on campus? Then come visit Yukai at our annual Open House on Thursday, October 11 from 7 to 9 pm! Meet us at the Bruin Bear and we’ll tell you about who we are, what we do, and even perform a few of our songs.
At Open House, we’ll also tell you about our annual Trial Period, a series of twelve free workshops in which our members will teach you the fundamentals of playing taiko, as well as various pieces of our repertoire! At the end of trial period, applications will also be available for trialees interested in joining our group for the rest of the year. No previous experience is necessary for trial period, and all UCLA students are welcome!
Trial period workshops begin on Friday, October 12 and are offered Fridays from 7:45 to 10 pm and Saturdays from 9:45 am to 12 pm. Please meet us at the Bruin Bear and wear comfortable clothes. We hope to see you there!
Enormous Activities Fair and Bruin Plaza
Hello again from Yukai! Zero week is approaching at UCLA, and Yukai will be on campus so you can learn more about who we are, what we do and how you can play taiko with us.
Come find our table at the Enormous Activities Fair in UCLA’s Dickson Plaza on Monday, September 24 from 10 am-2 pm. We look forward to talking with you about Yukai and the opportunities we’ll provide this fall to learn and play taiko!
Also look for us on Tuesday, September 25 from 11 am-1:30 pm as we perform in Bruin Plaza! Come see what taiko looks and sounds like and learn more about how you can get involved in Yukai this year.
We’re excited to be starting a brand new school year next week at UCLA and can’t wait for all the new and interesting adventures that await us in our ninth year of playing taiko. Hope to see you there!