Come meet MIKU at our festival!
Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Arcade Game will be at J-POP SUMMIT in a tent on Post Street from 11am – 6pm both days of the festival! Get your $1 Arcade Coupon at the NEW PEOPLE Booth in front of NEW PEOPLE building for 1 play. Come back again if you want to play more!

One and only on this continent! The very first CGM (Consumer Generated Media) Arcade Game ever, Hatsune Miku Project DIVA is a world created by the players themselves. The arcade is a rhythm game featuring Hatsune Miku and other vocaloids’ popular songs from “Hatsune Miku Project Diva” on PSP, and from “Niko Niko Douga”. New songs are planned to be uploaded online. Enter into the Hatsune Miku world!
Check out how to play >>

ALL YOU CAN PLAY AT VIP PARTY!
Get your VIP party ticket and play Project DIVA all you want for free! During the party, Project DIVA will be moved from its Post Street tent to the Cinema lobby in NEW PEOPLE building.
Get your VIP Party ticket now >>

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at J-POP SUMMIT: Saturday, 8.27 from 2:15pm to 2:45pm

Give Them Away!
Starting from August 11th until J-POP SUMMIT – Layla Lane will be giving away some exclusive Layla Lane merch on NEW PEOPLE’s Facebook page every week, so check in time to time to see the questions they ask – and the first person to answer the correct answer is the winner! Winners get to pick their prizes up directly from Heday and Valerie during their meet & greet after their show at the festival! So check back in on August 11th at facebook.com/newpeople !

Layla Lane / Happy Lane (Coca Cola Theme Song)

About Layla Lane
Cross-cultural rock duo Layla Lane combines exquisite arrangements and clever harmonies for a style that is equal parts 1960′s pop, gypsy swing, and good old-fashioned rock n’ roll. Fronted by guitarist Heday from Shizuoka, Japan and Los Angeles-born pianist Valerie Stern, the band captured the attention of Coca-Cola Japan and partnered with thebrand on a year-long TV commercial campaign in 2010. Layla Lane released its major-label debut on the Avex Trax last Fall. More about the band >>

Band Credit:

Danceroid to join as judges!
Vocaloid fans! Here is your chance to hit the stage at J-POP SUMMIT this year to dance in front of a your friends AND A huge audience! Animation on Display is the host, and guest performers Danceroid will be your main judge. They will be joined by the final winner to dance out the final song at the contest – so post your video on J-POP SUMMIT FEST’s Facebook wall! More details on Submitting >>

A sample video that shows dance and cosplay (we are not asking for perfect video production) FYI – this video got over 4 million views…

SUPPORT J-POP & Meet Celebrities!!
We have 3 days left for our Kickstarter fundraiser to close – pledge over $20 to party with celebrities at our Saturday, 8.27 VIP Party!! Also you will get access to music video event in the cinema, and take home an exclusive MIKU x KITTY keychain! Check out Pledge Options >>

h.NAOTO’s First U.S. Store Opening in October!

This is absolutely incredible news for the Bay area, and of course, for us at NEW PEOPLE. World-renown Tokyo street fashion brand h.NAOTO will be opening their first U.S. flagship store in NEW PEOPLE’s Fashion Floor on Friday, October 7th!

As promotion for the upcoming store opening, h.NAOTO will open a pop-up-shop during the J-POP SUMMIT Festival on August 27 and 28th, where head designer Naoto Hirooka will also be hosting a fashion show. Naoto Hirooka fans will have a chance to meet the designer at the J-POP SUMMIT Festival VIP party. (Pledge to support J-POP SUMMIT on our Kickstarter page to get invited! )

★ h.NAOTO event schedule at J-POP SUMMIT 2011

Saturday, 8/27 (11am-7pm) &28 (11am-6pm)
Pop-Up-Shop on NEW PEOPLE Fashion Floor

Saturday, 8/27 @ 13:30pm -14:30pm
New Collection Fashion Show at SUPERFROG Gallery
*For customers who purchase over $100 at the h.NAOTO pop-up-shop inside the NEW PEOPLE Fashion Floor.

Sunday, 8/28 @ 11:30am – 12:30pm
h.NAOTO Tokyo Collection screening at NP Cinema (Q & A with Naoto Hirooka) *For customers who purchase over $100 at the h.NAOTO pop-up-shop inside the NEW PEOPLE Fashion Floor.

★ h.NAOTO calls for MAKE-UP ARTISTS

If you love the h.NAOTO esthetic, the designer is seeking make-up help for his fashion show! You must be available on Saturday, August 27th. Please email h.naoto@newpeopleSF.com with images from your best make-up work. Once you are chosen, we will give you further details. ( this position has no compensation )

★ h.NAOTO calls for models

***ALL SUBMISSIONS FOR MODELS HAVE CLOSED. ***
All models who have been chosen have been directly notified by h.NAOTO already.

✭Models need to be available for the following times:
Submission Deadline: August 10th
Notification: August 15th – only the chosen models will get an email notification.

✭Models need to be available for the following times:
8/26 18:00 – 20:00 Fitting *UPDATED
8/27 8:00～14:30 Rehearsal, Hair & Make-up and Fashion Show *UPDATED

Artist Yoshitaka Amano has donated three new brush works on canvas to be auctioned off for the tsunami and earthquake victims of Japan. (100% of the proceeds will be received by the Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. http://jcccnc.org/) The three pieces will be auctioned on exhibition’s closing day.

More info about auction and reception on gallery page >>

About the artist and this exhibition:
Yoshitaka Amano: Monochrome & DEVA LOKA USA

A native of Shizuoka City, Japan, Yoshitaka Amano is best known for his character design for Final Fantasy video games and numerous Japanese hit TV cartoon series that sparked the imagination of youth in Japan and inspired a whole generation of artists who grew up watching his bold illustrations come to life. At the young age of fifteen, he started working as a character developer at Tatsunoko Productions and fifteen years later he left and became a freelance illustrator as well as an exhibiting artist.

For this U.S. exhibition, Amano has donated three new brush works on canvas “Monochrome I, II, & III” to be auctioned off on exhibition’s closing day for the tsunami and earthquake victims of Japan. (100% of the proceeds will be received by the Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund.) The three pieces combined with his DEVA LOKA* USA, a series of paintings Amano prepared as an ode to nfluences of 60’s and 70’s American pop culture, will be exhibited in this show.

*Deva Loka is an ancient Indian land of God, and is the theme that he has been able to unite all of his years of work under.