Our November General Meeting included two demonstrations, the first a co-presentation by Master Debbie Warriner and President Valli Reed featuring the Ichiyo School, and the second by David Kennedy, President of the San Diego Bromeliad Society. At first, Debbie and Valli each made their own arrangements: Debbie’s...
Our chapter organized a unique program on the 25th of November titled, ‘Jugalbandi’. Jugalbandi literally means ‘entwined twins’. Two prominent ikebana artists of two different schools, namely Sogetsu and Ohara, showed arrangements distinctive of their respective schools. They were Mrs. Syama Balbir , First Master of Ohara...
It was the first demonstration of Mrs. Leslie Dolin of our chapter. She showed several typical Sogetsu School arrangements with seasonal material (flowers and branches). She showed how we can make an artistic structure for flower arrangement with kitchen material (sticks, etc.). It was amazing to know...
On November 11, the Kobe Chapter held its regular meeting and experienced the demonstration of Mr. Kenichiro Kuwahara, the Iemoto designate of Kuwahara Senkei-ryu with lunch. We had many guests including Mr. Senkei Kuwahara, 15th Iemoto of the Kuwahara Senkei-ryu, and Ms. Nobuko Sakata, President of I.I....
Our October chapter meeting program was to use mitsumata in an ikebana arrangement. The demonstration was given by a chapter member, Kimiko Johnston, who is a Sogetsu sensei. She started her presentation by showing us how to wire the branches to use them in arrangements. After the...
Our yearly opening luncheon hosted Mrs. Kyoko Peterson as our Ikeobo demonstrator. She did beautiful arrangements from classical Rikka to abstract freestyle. The next day we enjoyed a workshop that included making a container.
For our October 22 meeting, we made miniature arrangements under the guidance of our own member, MaryLee Hawse, Ikenobo Professor 2nd Grade. We used sake cups as our container with guidelines as to height and width of our arrangements. MaryLee brought each of us a nice bunch...
The 55th year’s Celebration of Taipei Chapter was started by Flower Exhibition in SHIN KONG MITSUKOSHI Department store, Taipei. On 29th of September 2022, more than 100 members from different schools set up the exhibition. The 8 grand pieces were carried out by the members from each...
