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Calendar of Events 2010

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Throughout February:

Kusama at Fairchild, Miami

Japan & the Art of War, Bienes Museum, Ft.Lauderdale

The Japan Craze & Western Art 1880-1920, Orlando

1

Origami Club Meeting, (FROGS) Ruskin  

Origami Club Meeting, (Orchid) Duval

2

Ikenobo Ikebana, Morikami, Delray Beach

Stroll for Well-Being, Morikami, Delray Beach

3

Happy Hour Fundraiser, Miami

4

Sumi-e Ink Painting, Morikami, Delray Beach

Bonsai Meeting, Pensacola Gulf Coast

5

Tampa JETAA Tsudoi, Tampa

 

Sogetsu Ikebana, Morikami, Delray Beach

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7

The Art of Bonsai, Morikami, Delray Beach

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Origami Club Meeting
, Sarasota

Bonsai workshop, Miami

10

11
Bridging American & Japanese Styles of Communication, Morikami, Delray Beach

SUMI-E
Ink Painting
, Hisshin Chapter, Ponte Vedra Beach

12

Bonsai Meeting, 

Orlando



13

Bonsai Meeting, (Gold Coast) Sunrise

Arts & Crafts Workshop, Morikami, Delray Beach

14


Tea Ceremony Class, Morikami, Delray Beach

 

The Art of Bonsai, Morikami, Delray Beach

15

Japanese Fusion Dance by Etnia Fusion, Ft. Lauderdale

16

Origami Club Meeting, Sarasota


Ikebana International, Miami


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THE RAMEN GIRL, Morikami, Delray Beach


Secrets of Sushi, Morikami, Delray Beach

Bonsai Meeting, Lakeland

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Kawa Bonsai Meeting, Bunnell

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THE RAMEN GIRL, Orlando

Sado, The Way of Tea, Morikami, Delray Beach

JClub Meeting, Orlando

Bonsai Meeting, Tampa

Bonsai Meeting, Melbourne

Bonsai Meeting, Gainesville

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Origami Club Meeting, Sarasota



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Bonsai Workshop, Orlando

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Bonsai Meeting, Boca Raton

28

Martial Arts Day at Ichimura Garden, Morikami, Delray Beach

The Way of Taiko Workshop, Morikami, Delray Beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
*Dates & times are subject to change, please verify with appropriate organization. Check your local library for anime clubs and other events. Click here for Japanese language classes.
   
  Film & Food Event featuring THE RAMEN GIRL (Delray Beach & Orlando)

Date: February 18
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446 
Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org

Date: February 20
Time: 2:00 pm
Where: UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management
9907 Universal Blvd, Orlando, FL. 32819
Details: (305)530-9090, http://www.miami.us.emb-japan.go.jp/the_ramen_girl_orlando.html

Showcasing Japanese culture and lifestyle, the Consulate General of Japan in Miami and the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens proudly present a film screening and food tasting event featuring the hit film "The Ramen Girl," starring the late Brittany Murphy.
Enjoy a free tasting of ramen noodles prepared by Chef Uemura, the official chef of the Japanese Consulate. Ms. Reiko Nishioka, Director of Education at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, will also share her insights about ramen and Japanese food culture. This is your chance to taste some of Japan’s most popular food!

 

  Happy Hour Fundraiser to Benefit Miami-Kagoshima Student Exchange Program

Date: February 3
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Novecento, 1414 Brickell Ave, Miami FL.
Details: (305)530-9090

Get Happy for a Good Cause! Come support the Miami-Kagoshima Student Exchange Program. A $10 donation gets you 2 drinks and complimentary appetizers!
Sponsored by Rotaract Club, Novecento, and Bacardi.

 



  Kusama at Fairchild

Date: Now through May 30
Where: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, Florida 33156
Details: www.fairchildgarden.org or (305)667-1651

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden presents Yayoi Kusama at Fairchild as part of its annual art program. The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, known for her distinctive sculptures and paintings that involve hand-worked repetition and bold patterning, will be exhibiting works from the exuberant new sculptural ensemble Flowers that Bloom at Midnight (2009), a group of her classic Pumpkins, as well as a multi-part, floating work specifically conceived for one of Fairchild’s large ponds. This will be the first time anywhere in the world that all these sculptures have been shown together in an outdoor setting. Yayoi Kusama at Fairchild will open on December 5, 2009, to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach, and
will be on view through May 30, 2010.



  JETAA Tsudoi in Tampa

Date: February 5
Meets on the first Friday of each month
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Panera in the Brandon Town Center
Details: tampakumi@gmail.com, http://sites.google.com/site/tampagumi

Tsudoi is an informal gathering to meet people who share an interest in Japan. No agendas, no rules. Just hang out and chat. It's a great way to meet new people who share similar interests.


  The Way of Taiko: The Heartbeat of Japan


Date: February 28
Time: 10:15 am - 5:00 pm
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446   
Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org 

The workshop will include an introduction to the history of taiko. Participants will be taught how to understand sounds and movements, i.e., how to connect nature and the meaning of body movement. They will become familiar with the way of taiko and learn how to drum. Top performers from South Florida’s Fushu Daiko will conduct the workshop. The group is recognized by Seiichi Tanaka, the master of San Francisco Taiko Dojo, who brought taiko to the United States and who trained senior members of the Fushu Daiko group. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes; jewelry is not recommended.

  Bridging Japanese and American Styles of Communication

Date: February 11
Time: 7:30 pm
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446  
Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org

Join us for an intriguing look into how we can feel more comfortable in cross-cultural interactions by becoming more aware of each other's cultural norms.Every culture has unspoken communication norms that need to be followed in order to seem polite. Because our own culture's norms are as familiar to us as the air we breathe, we are usually unaware of them unless we sense something "strange." In interactions between Americans and Japanese, shared familiarity with these norms cannot be assumed and "strange" feelings can lead to dysfunctional relationships.

 

  The Art of Bonsai
Date: February 7, 14
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446  
Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org 
Advance Registration Required 

The art of bonsai creates the illusion of age and maturity of a tree that has developed and sustained the effects of nature for many years. Students will become familiarized with horticultural aspects of growing bonsai including styling, care and maintenance.

 

 

  Japan and the Art of War

Date: Now through March 15
Where: The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book
100 S. Andrews Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33301
Details: www.broward.org/library/bienes/bienes.htm

The exhibition, drawn from the private collection of Mitchell “Micky” Wolfson, Jr. (renowned South Florida Collector and Social Historian) focuses on the period from the Meiji Restoration to the end of the Second World War (1860s -1945).  The 80 objects in the exhibition include small civilian and military design objects, books, scrolls, postcards, games, posters, ephemera, and textiles from the Sino-Japanese Wars, Russo-Japanese War, and the periods of peace between. The exhibition is about art in Japan and how artists pictured war and conflict.  Art was used to support or work against war through propagandized books, art, personal effects, and design pieces. 


  The Japan Craze and Western Art 1880-1920

Date: Now through August
Where: The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
445 North Park Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789, (407) 645-5311
Details: http://www.morsemuseum.org/special_exhibitions/japan_vignette.html

Japan emerged from 250 years of self-imposed isolation as a dazzling light of inspiration. Fascination with the art of Japan grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century and greatly influenced art and style in the West. Japanese compositional and formal characteristics in fact played a central role in the development of modern Western art. Like Europeans of the period, American designers produced Japanese-inspired decorative objects of all kinds. This vignette might be a contemporary room of someone who is much taken with that moment around 1900 when Japanese concepts of form, color, texture, and space were new and very fashionable. 

Image: THE BRIDGE
19th century
Colored woodblock print on paper
Katsushika Hokusai
(PR-036-82)

 

  Sumi-e ink Painting - Introduction
Date: TBA
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL33446  
Details:
(561)495-0233, www.morikami.org 
Advance Registration Required

Sumi-e is a form of Japanese ink painting brought from China in the 12th century. Primarily done in black ink, the name literally means "charcoal drawing" in Japanese. Students learn to grind their own ink using an ink stick and a grinding stone. They will also learn how to hold and utilize brushes to create the primary sumi-e brushstrokes. The course begins with a review of basic techniques and then students are guided as they create paintings of floral subjects.  

 

 

  FROGS Folders in Ruskin Origami Group Service
Date: February 1
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 

Meets on the first Monday of each month.
Where: South Shore Regional Library
15816 Beth Shields Way, Ruskin, FL 33573
Details: (813)273-3652 or folder1@verizon.net

 

 

 

 

 




  Sarasota Origami Club Meeting
origami.jpg (11478 bytes) Date: Meets most Tues. @ 5:30 or 6 pm
Where: New College of Florida, Sarasota
Robertson Hall Conference Room.
Details: Contact  swu@ncf.edu.

 

Learn about the Japanese art of paper folding.

 

 

 

  ORCHID Origami Recreational Club Meeting
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Date: February 1
Time: 7:30 pm

Meets on the first Monday of each month.
Where: Roasters on San Jose, north of 295, Duval, FL
Details: Contact amberh@coj.net.

Origami is the art of paper folding.

 

 

 

  Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement
Date: February 2, 9, 16, 23
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where:
 The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446  
Details:
(561)495-0233, www.morikami.org 
Advance Registration Required 

 

The Ikenobo Ikebana School is the oldest in Japan. Using fresh flowers, students are taught traditional flower arrangement according to the Ikenobo discipline.  

 

 

  Sumi-e Ink Painting Floral & Landscape

Date: February 4, 11, 18, 25
Time: 10:30 am - Floral 1:30 pm- Landscape
Where:
 The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446  
Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org  Advance Registration Required

Sumi-e is a form of Japanese ink painting brought from China in the 12th century. Primarily done in black ink, the name literally means "charcoal drawing" in Japanese. Students learn to grind their own ink using an ink stick and a grinding stone. They will also learn how to hold and utilize brushes to create the primary sumi-e brushstrokes. The course begins with a review of basic techniques and then students are guided as they create paintings of floral subjects.

   

 

 

  Pensacola Gulf Coast Bonsai Society Meeting
Date:  February 4

Meets on the first Thursday of each month.
Where: Gulf Breeze Public Library

1060 Shoreline Dr., Gulf Breeze, Florida
Details:  www.bonsai-bsf.com 





  Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arrangement
Date: February 5, 12, 19
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Where:
The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446  
Details:
(561)495-0233, www.morikami.org 
Advance Registration Required

 

Using fresh flowers, students are taught contemporary Japanese flower arrangement according to the Sogetsu School .

 

 

 

  Stroll for Well-Being: Garden Walks at The Morikami
Date: February 2
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Where:
The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach, FL 33446   
Details:
(561)495-0233, www.morikami.org

 

Participants will visit the Morikami Gardens for quiet contemplation as often as they wish over a 3-month period. A specially developed Journal, designed to enhance the experience, will be used as a guide and a means to record personal thoughts through the 12 themed garden strolls. There will be three meetings with the Journal's author, Associate Professor at the Christine E Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University. An explanation about the program will be provided during the first meeting; the second one, which will take place halfway through the program, will be used to answer any questions that may appear during the first few walks. Finally, the last meeting will take place at the end of the program and will include a discussion of participants' experiences.

 

  Japanese Tea Ceremony Workshop

Date: TBA
Time: 1:00 pm
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach , FL 33446   
Details:
(561)495-0233, www.morikami.org

Participants will learn the basics of sado - Tea Ceremony - necessary to know in order to either learn more about the aesthetics of sado or better understand and fully enjoy the tea ceremony itself. They will become familiar with how to be a guest should you be invited to a Tea Ceremony, make a bowl of tea and serve it to a guest.

 




  Central Florida Bonsai Club

Date: February 12, 26
Time: 7:30 pm

Meets on the second and fourth Friday of each month.

Where: Orange County Cooperative Extension
6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando, Florida 32812
Details: http://www.centralfloridabonsaiclub.com/ 


Learn about the Japanese art of bonsai.

The CFBC was founded in 1969 and is a member of BSF. 

They meet twice a month, once for a meeting and demo and once for a hands on workshop, no holds barred, bring in what you want fun Bonsai night.  

 

 

 

  Raising Orchids

 

Date: TBA
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd.,
Delray Beach, FL 33446  
Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org 
Advance Registration Required
 
Students will learn the secrets of growing orchids. Topics covered include orchid culture as well as repotting, pests, diseases, fertilization and the many varieties of orchids.

 

 

 

 

  Gold Coast Bonsai Society Meeting
 

Date: February 13

Time: 9:30 am

Meets on the second Saturday of each month.
Where: City of Sunrise Parks & Leisure Department
6800 Sunset Strip, FL
Detailswww.goldcoastbonsai.com 

 


 

  Sado Omote Senke Tea Ceremony Class

Date: February 14
Time: 11:00 am
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd.,
Delray Beach, FL 33446  
Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org 
Advance Registration Required  

The class affords a unique opportunity to study the traditional art of Sado, The Way of Tea. Attending a Tea Ceremony Workshop (offered in November, January and March) is required for those who have never taken a Tea Ceremony Class but wish to start studying Sado.

 
  Bonsai Society of Miami

Date: February 9
Time: 7:30 pm

Meets on the second Tuesday of each month.
Where:  Fairchild Tropical Garden

10901 Old Cutler Rd., Miami
Details:  www.bonsaisocietyofmiami.org              


Learn about the Japanese art of bonsai.

 

 

 

 

  Hisshin Chapter Sumi-e Ink Painting

Date: February 11
Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Meets on the second Thursday of each month.
Where: The Players Senior Community Center

175 Landrum Lane, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082

Details:  rondawncoleman53@bellsouth.net or joescotty@comcast.net

 

Sumi-e is the Asian art of ink painting that has been in existence for thousands of years. The Four Treasures - Ink (Sumi), Inkstone (suzuri), brush (fude) and paper (kami) are the beautiful tools used in this art form. Guests are welcome to attend meetings/paint-ins. Scotty Thorton will lead a painting session on Shikhisi boards.

 

 

 

  J.Club Meeting

Date: February 20
Where:
Orlando, FL.
Details:
http://ld-e.com/jclub/upcomingevents.html

Japanese Film and Food Event @ UCF




  Kawa Bonsai Society 
Date: February 19
Time: 7:30 pm
Meets on the third Friday of each month. 
Where: 
Flagler County Agricultural Extension Office,  
Sawgrass Road,Bunnell , FL .
Details:
http://www.kawabonsai.com/, (386) 586-3437
GPartelow1@cfl.rr.com

Besides monthly meetings, visiting artists, an annual three day show called the Joy of Bonsai, Kawa also participates in the statewide Convention of the Bonsai Societies of Florida.

 

 

  Ikebana International Meeting & Free Class- Miami Chapter

Date: February 16
Meets on the third Tuesday of each month.
Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Where: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens
10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, FL. 33156
Visiters Center Ballroom
Details: Please contact Ms. Mieko Kubota at (305)665-2141
or miekokubota@bellsouth.net

Program life with furoshiki and holiday table arrangements.

FREE Ikebana Flower Arranging Class: TBA

  Sado, The Way of Tea
Date: February 20
Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where:
The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd, Delray Beach, FL 33446   
Details:
(561)495-0233, www.morikami.org
Advance Registration Required  

Observe the Japanese Tea Ceremony in the Seishi-an Tea House, an ever-changing demonstration rich in seasonal subtleties. Your involvement in the true spirit of the ceremony of tea; harmony (wa), reverence (kei), purity (sei), and tranquility (jaku), along with a sip of green tea and a sweet, will help bring a calm perspective into your busy life.  


  Bonsai Society of Brevard Meeting

Date: February 20
Time: 2:00 pm

Meets on the third Saturday of each month.
Where: Melbourne Library
540 E. Fee Ave., Melbourne
Details:  www.bonsaisocietyofbrevard.org  

Learn about the Japanese art of bonsai.




 

  Gainesville Bonsai Society Meeting

Date: February 20
Time: 9:30 pm

Meets on the third Saturday of each month.

Where: Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
4700 S.W. 58th Drive, Gainesville
Details:  www.afn.org/~bonsai/ 

Learn about the Japanese art of bonsai.





 

  Hukyu Bonsai Society Meeting
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Date: February 20
Time: 9:30 pm

Meets on the third Saturday of each month.

Where:  University of South Florida Botanical Gardens, Tampa
SW corner of the USF Tampa Campus.  

Intersection of Pine and Alumni.
Details:  www.hukyubonsai.com


Learn about the Japanese art of bonsai.





  Bonsai Society of Lakeland Meeting

Date: February 18
Time: 7:00 pm

Meets on the third Thursday of each month.
Where: First United Methodist Church
72 Lake Morton Dr., Lakeland, FL 33801
Details:  www.lakelandbonsai.com.

Learn about the Japanese art of bonsai.




  Arts & Crafts Workshop
Date: February 13
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where:
 The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446   

Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org    

Family Fun Programs are for those who want to explore and learn about Japanese culture through hands-on arts and crafts projects designed for the whole family. Families can create projects in an open workshop.  

  Furoshiki Workshop by Etnia Fusion

Date: TBA
Details: (561)312-6619 / nefertiti@etniafusion.com
http://etniafusion.com

Discover this ancient art of gift wrapping and accessorizing using versatile and Eco friendly textiles called Furoshiki. In this interactive workshop Nefertiti from Etnia Fusion will be showing multiple ways how to use this charming Japanese invention to suit the needs of your daily life such as go shopping, present a gift, pack for a picnic and more... This activity is suitable for all ages and genders. Feel free to bring the item of your choice to be wrapped in a one on one demonstration. There will be Furoshikis for sale. Private instruction available upon request.

 

  Terminal Tunes featuring Japanese Dance by Etnia Fusion

Date: February 15
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Ft. Lauderdale International Airport, Terminal 1 Arrivals

Details:
(561)312-6619 or nefertiti@etniafusion.com

The new program FLL Lauderdale Terminal Tunes at the international airport is sponsoring and promoting Etnia Fusion by Nefertiti and Grand Master Punong Guro Ken DeJesus as part of their selected list of featured performers. They will be presenting their signature Japanese Fusion show including Odori dance, martial arts demonstration, the use of traditional implements and weaponry along with fun interaction and audience participation. This is a double celebration, President's Day Holiday Weekend and New Year's Day for the year of the Dragon which officially begins by the moon calendar on Feb 14, 2010.  It is a free event open to the public, suitable for the entire family.


  Lighthouse Bonsai Society Meeting

Date: February 27
Time: 9:30 am

Meets on the fourth Saturday of each month.
Where:  Boca Raton Community Center
150 N.W. Crawford Blvd., Boca Raton
Details: Contact the Lighthouse Bonsai Society 

at www.lighthousebonsai.com 

        

Lighthouse Bonsai Society is a group of novices as well as experienced enthusiasts. The more experienced are more than helpful. Our meetings are fun and educational. They have Visiting Masters, Hands On Workshops, Demonstrations plus much more. Ask to be placed on their mailing list.  

 

 

 

  Martial Arts Day at Ichimura Miami-Japan Garden
 

Date: February 28
Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Ichimura Miami-Japan Garden
1101 MacArthur Causeway (Adjacent to Jungle Island)
Details: (305)858-5016

Visitors will see Iaido, Kendo, Batto, Zendokwan Taekwondo, Karate, Ju Jitsu, Okinawan Goju Ryu, and various Japanese Martial Arts demonstrations and techniques by 9 master practitioners. Come prepared and have your inquiries ready. This is the day to learn all about the different Martial Arts schools. Food and Drinks will be available for purchase.

This event is sponsored by the City of Miami Dept. of Parks and Recreation and by the Friends of the Japanese Garden.


  Japan Through the Eyes of a Child
Date: New Permanent Exhibit
Where: The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446 
Details: (561)495-0233, www.morikami.org  

Japan Through the Eyes of a Child transports young visitors from Florida to far-off Japan, allowing them to step into the world of Japanese culture. Inside the redesigned Yamato-kan, children will experience the super fast “Bullet Train,” the Shinkansen, an elementary school classroom, a street of shops, and a traditional Japanese home. 



  Permanent Bonsai Display
Where: Brevard Zoo
8225 N. Wickham Rd., Melbourne, FL 32940
Details: (321)254-9453 or www.brevardzoo.org

A wonderful exhibit with eight bonsai trees.




  Permanent Bonsai Display
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Where: University of South Florida Botanical Gardens
4202 E. Fowler Avenue NES107, Tampa, FL 33620

Details: (813) 974-2329 or www.cas.usf.edu/garden/

Approximately nine bonsai trees displayed with guide.