Brian Sweeney, an English and journalism teacher at Townsend Harris High School in Flushing, was recognized as one of six grand-prize winners of this year’s
San Francisco Taiko Dojo, the first of its kind in North America, will be unable to renew their lease for September as a result of a roughly 150% rent increase.
With their rent being tripled effective September 1, the popular long-running Bay Area Japanese drumming group and cultural collective San Francisco Taiko Dojo is looking at eviction, and may have already had their last performance.