All Southern California Go Happenings

The annual Cherry Blossom Festival inside the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park draws thousands of people every year to check out the spring cherry blossoms and to enjoy hours of provided entertainment. Many vendors also sell delicious delights.

Being that Go is the national game of Japan, the San Diego Go Club has been invited to teach Go there every year since the festival began more than a decade ago. SDGC has tables inside the Exhibition Hall (first building inside the entrance gate... a prime spot). Jessie Janowitz, author of the new book "All the Ways to Go," will join SDGC. Her novel, is aimed at youth. It involves two young teens and their adventures in Go in NYC and Princeton, NJ.

There is an admission charge to enter the Garden. The entrance opens at 10:00 a.m. PDT. But SDGC volunteers get to enter at the VIP rear gate behind the organ pavillion.