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Sackville Ikebana Exhibition 2025

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Our ikebana exhibition this year was held on the weekend of Feb 22-23, 2025 at the Sackville Public Library. Thank you to all who came and visited us. We hope you enjoyed the show. We certainly enjoyed putting everything together!

It was an interesting challenge as the tops of bookshelves were used as platforms. So all the arrangements had to be designed to be seen from roughly around eye level and up. Also, we had to take care that no branches go past beyond the air space of the shelf, lest a library patron get poked in the eye while browsing the shelves!

The library’s main hall was a beautiful space with a large wall-to-wall glass window that allowed natural light into the space. It also afforded us with a breathtaking view of the outside scenery and was a wonderful backdrop for the demonstration. We used the shelves on the right side for the exhibition.

We’d like to thank the team at the Sackville Public Library—Eric D, Jasmina K, Ainslie C, and Doreen S—for your warm welcome. You made everything go smoothly! Thank you for entrusting your space to us for the weekend!

To Miyako’s students who gave so much of their time and effort to make this a success, well done and thank you! We hope you had a great experience.

Free-Style Arrangement by Robert L

Free-Style Arrangement by Miyako

 

Variation No. 5 by Leo A

Free-Style by Media C

Free-Style by Michelle C

Variation No. 3 by Denise P

Variation No. 4 by Heather N

 

Free-Style by Val S

Variation No. 5 by Brenda D

Free-Style by Linda K

Free-Style by Lyla H

Free-Style by Miyako

Free-Style by Linda C

Free-Style by Odessa G

Ikebana Demonstration by Miyako

And here are some members of our team having a relaxed moment! That was a lot of fun and we hope to do it again soon.

CBC and CTV News also featured us in their local news!

Read the CBC article here.

Watch the CTV News at 5 clip here.

My Ikebana: Coat Hanger

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#32 Green bamboo tubes and simple rustic jars also make the best containers.
青竹の筒やタネ壺も最高の花器。

The combination of materials and a container is one of the basic aspects of ikebana. This principle indicates the importance of developing an eye for discoveries and ideas for containers. Ordinary items that we rarely notice may suddenly appeal to us with gleaming possibilities. Look around to find unconventional containers in the diversity of common, everyday items and tools as well as wood, stones, and iron.
— The Fifty Principles of Sogetsu

It's summer and the coat hanger is standing bare with no coats. So why not use it as a flower fixture? We carefully nestled an otoshi container to hold the flowers and water!

 

I hope you like it. —Miyako

The Ohara Ikebana Exhibition Apr-2024

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The wonderful thing about being in Japan is that there are many ikebana-related events happening year-round.

We were fortunate to be in Tokyo when the Ohara Ikebana exhibition was happening at the Takashimaya Shinjuku department store (Apr 11-16, 2024).

Please enjoy some of the exquisite works at the exhibition!

My Ikebana: At Sogetsu HQ 08-Apr-2024

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My next class at Sogetsu HQ was under the direction of Sensei Ishikawa Misei. I worked with Japanese roses (yamabuki) and gloriosa lilies. In a conic container, I made the Japanese roses seem like they were playing together while the gloriosa lilies brought them all together in one unity. I hope you like it.

Ishikawa-sensei also made a demonstration using Japanese roses and red dogwood.