PUPPET SHOWS at Yume Japanese Gardens on December 13

ISSUN-BOSHI – “Little One-Inch”

December 13, 2020 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm / from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

“Tiny though you be, you can still realize big dreams, including finding lasting love. So learns Issun-boshi, diminutive hero of the charming Japanese fairytale “Little One-Inch.

As his name indicates, Little One-Inch’s stature is minature. But his adventures are grand, and so is his eventual bliss: he plies a rice bowl as a boat and uses a chopstick as an oar, wields a needle to valiantly defend a lovely princess against a huge ogre, and wins her grateful heart and hand in a happily-ever-after marriage.

“Little One-Inch” will be staged by The Red Herring Puppets. Lisa Sturz, artistic director of the company, is an Emmy award-winning puppeteer who has worked with Walt Disney Imagineering, PBS, NBC, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. With her fellow puppeteers, she brings this centuries-old Japanese coming-of-age story to memorable, colorful life.”

General admission: $16 adults

Children age 3 to 15: $10 

Tickets include admission to Yume Japanese Gardens, 2130 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson

Advance purchase required – Audience limited to a maximum of 10 persons per show

The 3:30 pm show is sold out. Still availabilities for the 2:00 pm showPurchase Tickets

Fall Ikebana Festival at Yume Japanese Gardens on November 19 to 22, 27 to 29

November 19-22/27-29, 2020 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

“Enjoy dozens of signature floral compositions highlighting the wide breadth of flower arrangement styles in Japan’s most distinctive art form.

General admission: $16 adults

Children under 15: $5

Members: $10

Includes entry to the entire Gardens.” at 2130 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson

www.yumegardens.org

https://www.yumegardens.org/purchase-fall-ikebana-festival-tickets

“Sonya Evans and Odaiko Sonora are pleased to join Yume Japanese Gardens for Meditation Drumming. Attendees are welcome to observe, listen or join in the drumming as their spirit moves them. Bachi (drumsticks) will be provided for anyone who wishes to participate.”

Tickets $16 General Admission, $5 members of Yume Gardens, 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Includes entry to the gardens. Yume Gardens is at 2130 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson.

Audience limited to a maximum of 10 persons.

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Evenings at Yume

Obon Floating Lanterns

November 12-14, 2020 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

“Be bewitched by the glow of lanterns and candlelight and by haunting recorded Japanese folk melodies played on traditional instruments as you stroll Yume’s paths after dark. Purchase at the door a floating lantern and launch it on our koi pond, an Obon offering to honor your departed with radiant memory.”

Yume Japanese Gardens is at 2130 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson

General admission: $16 adults (purchase tickets at either 6:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.)

Children under 15: $5

Members: $10

” Now more than ever a refreshing refuge for Tucsonans seeking harmony, hope and healing.Plan to visit the Gardens to enjoy 1,000 Cranes, 1,000 Dreams, our first exhibition of the new season.Timed admission tickets are required for entry. To purchase your ticket or reserve your spot, visit our website at yumegardens.org

Visitors will sense Yume’s commitment to well-being in the first exhibition of its 2020 Fall/Winter season: 1,000 Cranes, 1,000 Dreams is an outdoor display of 1,000 colorful origami cranes made from folded paper and donated by the people of Tucson.

The exhibition draws on the Japanese tradition of Senbazuru, which holds that those who devote time and effort to make origami cranes see their most heartfelt wishes granted. Cranes will be flying from stone lanterns to stone water basins, perching on boulders and flocking on bamboo gates and fences.”

Yume Japanese Gardens opened in Jan. 2013 and is located at 2130 N. Alvernon Way. They were forced to close in mid-March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Senbazuru exhibit starts on October 15 and continues to November 15. Community members were asked to start folding these 1000 cranes on May 6, and completed the project by end of June, 2020, during the pandemic.