Thank you to everyone who came to the Holiday Origami Workshop! We hope you all enjoyed!
(Photo by the ikebana shop. All rights reserved.)
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Holiday Origami Workshop
How about a little origami to prepare for the holiday season?
Learn to make a holiday wreath plus some accompaniments:
- a ribbon
- a Santa figure
- candy canes
- a reindeer
- a stocking
Cost: $7 per person (plus HST)
Date & Time: Nov 19th (Sat), 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Max 8 participants.
Advanced registration required. Call or email us!
First come, first served!
＊If you are a group of 6-8 persons, we can set a separate workshop time for your group! Please check with us.
tel: (902) 407-0487
email: inquiry@theikebanashop.com
Prince Andrew High School Students Visit
Today we welcomed to our studio about 20+ students and two teachers from Prince Andrew High School. They came to learn a little bit more about ikebana. They were treated to a live demonstration of ikebana. Thank you for asking many questions.
Many thanks to Mrs. Shannon Patterson for bringing the students. We are very grateful for her efforts in giving the young people an opportunity to be exposed to other forms of art like ikebana. This is our second time to receive a visit from Prince Andrew High students. We hope to see the next batch in 2012. We love the youthful energy and enthusiasm that they bring!
Sorry it was a little crowded but we hope you found it interesting!
Here are the two arrangement created today: basic upright moribana (right) and free-style (left)...a play with mass and lines...plus, did you notice that the roses were installed just so...to make them peek out from behind the weeds?
Images of the students are published with their permission.
All photos by the ikebana shop. All rights reserved.
Nocturne 2011
This was our second year to participate in Nocturne: Art At Night. Miyako and five of her students prepared our ikebana exhibit for the night.
We are older (just a little bit) and wiser! And it showed in the creativity and profundity of the works of the students. The more one looked, the more one saw interesting details and gained more insight from the arrangements. One visitor commented that last night's exhibit showed more maturity compared to last year's.
We thank everyone who took time to visit us (despite Quinpool being a bit removed from downtown where most of Nocturne took place.) We also thank those who came to see Miyako during her ikebana demonstrations at Pier 21. (Thank you Pier 21 for inviting us again!) And of course, we thank ikebana students: JB, Lien Cayer, Marina Sokolenko, Valerie Sokolenko, and, last but not least, Val Spencer for taking time on Saturday to make the wonderful arrangements. We know it wasn't just an afternoon's work...everyone probably had had some excruciating hours of planning before the actual day of exhibit! Special thanks to Val who helped us take the shop apart and put it back together again the following day...really appreciated. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't do it, but we're sure you can make Humpty Dumpty whole again! (^-^)
And of course, we thank the organizers of Nocturne for making this happen. You put Halifax on the map!
See you next year!
Please enjoy some photos of the exhibit on our flickr gallery:
(All photos by the ikebana shop. All rights reserved.)
How To Appreciate Ikebana
Here is a little slide presentation that we prepared for Nocturne 2011. We are in Zone 4, #68 in the guidebook. (http://www.nocturnehalifax.ca/)
We hope it will make the experience of seeing our ikebana exhibit more interesting. Please visit the shop on Oct.15th (Sat), 6PM - 12 midnight. See you!
Also, Miyako will be performing live ikebana demonstrations at Pier 21 - Canadian Museum of Immigration.
Tentative demonstration schedule: 7:30, 8:30, 9:30.
QuinFest Fun!
Thank you to all who visited Quinpool Road on QuinFest yesterday. We were very happy to see the street alive and bustling.
Our tiny fishing pool was surrounded all the time with little hands trying to hook their target yo-yo water balloons. We loved hearing the shrieks of delight from the children. 500 balloons were quick to disappear! We hope you all had fun. ....and we'll see you all again in next year's QuinFest!
We would like to thank the Quinpool Road Mainstreet District Association for organizing this annual event. We also thank the weather for being such a great sport!
(Photos by the ikebana shop. All rights reserved.)
Quinfest! Sep 17th (Sat) 11AM - 3PM
This coming Saturday, Sept 17th (Sat) 11AM - 3PM. Pencil it in your calendars! It's Quinfest (formerly the Quinpool Fall Fair of previous years). A great day of family fun along Quinpool Rd. Lots of stuff going on along the street. Our shop will have the water balloon fishing game (it's free!) for the little ones! We'll see you there!
(Photo by the ikebana shop. All rights reserved.)
Free Castella 7/16 (Sat)
Many liked it when we had that free cookie & cupcake day last month...so we decided to do it again this month. This time we invite you to taste castella (see below). We timed the day to coincide with the Quinpool Cruise Day to give people that extra reason to visit Quinpool. Enjoy a bite of castella before you go on to hear the blues and see the classic cars on parade!
Castella is a popular Japanese sponge cake made from flour, eggs and sugar. This cake was introduced to Japan by Portuguese merchants back in the 16th century. At that time, use of dairy products was not normal in Japan and it so happened that the Pão de Castela (the Portuguese name for this cake that means “bread from Castile”) was one of the few European cakes that did not use dairy products in its recipe. This was the reason why this cake survived in Japan...and eventually evolved into the current Japanese version called “castella”.
(Photo by the ikebana shop. All rights reserved.)
Tea Tasting Workshop 6/25 (Sat)
Join us to learn the different tastes in Japanese green tea. We won’t be using paper cups!
Origami Workshop 6/11 (Sat)
Join us for another fun origami workshop on Jun 11th (Sat)!