UNL’s annual Japan Festival is March 6. The event includes a variety of Japanese music performance and a screening of the film “Hafu.”

The festival opens with music performance by UNL students at 3:30 p.m. in Nebraska Union’s Heritage Room.

At 5 p.m., Mikiko Sakamoto Petrucelli, a UNL graduate, will lead a piano recital in the Heritage Room. Petrucelli received a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from UNL and a performance degree from Hochschule für Musik, Detmold, Germany. Her accomplishments include winning the Josef Dichter Competition in Vienna, Austria in 2001. Petrucelli has given numerous chamber and solo concerts in Japan, Germany and the United States. The recital will feature arrangements by Japanese composers.

The festival closes with the 7 p.m. screening of “Hafu” in the Nebraska Union’s Auditorium. The film details the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan.

All events are free and open to the public.

The festival is sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan-Chicago, the UNL Japanese program, and the Kawasaki Reading Room for Japanese Studies.