• Thu, Mar 13, 20259:30 AM to  Sun, Mar 16, 2025 5 pm
• Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson (map)

“Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson will be hosting a Spring Ikebana Exhibit from Mar. 13th through Mar. 16th, 2025.

Let’s welcome the season of renewal surrounded by vibrant colors and fragrances.

Ikebana is considered “an art of the moment”: one flower, one branch, one artist, one encounter. Ikebana exemplifies how no moment repeats itself and how the rarity of that moment cannot be forgotten.

Our visitors will step into this world where every flower arrangement tells a story and captures a fleeting moment. Guests will be able to watch demonstrations, see the koi pond, and enjoy the living art gallery that it ikebana. 

Spring is finally here, come enjoy it!!”

Date & Time:

3/13 – 3/16

Thurs-Saturday 9:30am – 4:30pm

Sunday 12pm – 5pm

Tickets:
General: $20
Members: $15
Children (under 15): $5 

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Introduction to Ikebana

February 27 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

In Person Education Building ClassroomThese classes take place In-Person in the Education Building Classroom

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$50 Non-Member / $40 Member

Class Capacity 12 – Register Early!

Hosted by Members of AZ Chapter of Ohara School of Ikebana

“The Arizona chapter of the Ohara School of Ikebana is offering an Introduction to Ikebana workshop. Students will learn about the philosophy and art of Japanese flower arranging and create an arrangement. Students will receive a vase to use in class and take home with their flowers. Kenzan (frogs) will be available to borrow during the class.”

Refund & Cancellation Policy

https://tucsonbotanical.org/event/introduction-to-ikebana

• Saturday, February 22, 2025
• 5:30 PM to 7:45 PM
• Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson (map)
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“FUNHOUSE movement theater returns to Yume Gardens to take the audience on a butoh exploration of body as landscape. In eternal vessels of clay, we wander and wonder, at once in and of the landscape. We are earth and stars and the space between unseen realms. We are clouds and mountains; rivers and forests; presence and prayer. We are the dreams within the clay.

Join us for Lost Among Clouds, an exploration of form, movement, and spirit, featuring Christopher Carlone, Heide Foley, Karenne Koo, Lin Lucas, Sherry Mulholland, Keita Tsutsum with music by Paul Amiel.

Visitors to this unique butoh performance will encounter dancers dispersed throughout the refined splendor of the garden, each engaged in improvisational communion with the sights, sounds, and sensations of the natural environment. Prepare to be moved.

The experience is immersive, allowing for audience members to move throughout the garden as the dancers perform in different spaces.

A contemporary, avant-garde performance art, butoh is a seamless blend of dance, theater, improvisation, and traditional Japanese performing arts. Butoh compels both performers and audience to investigate the primal, universal energies that connect us, and invites us to share an embodied experience of the collective unconscious.”

Date & Time:

2/22

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM & 6:45 PM – 7:45 PM

Tickets:
General Admission: $35

Advanced ticket reservation is required. This is a limited admission event.

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“Join guest speaker Dr. Junko Sakoi to learn about the history of Japanese Incarceration in the United States on our Day of Remembrance. February 19th is the anniversary of Executive Order 9066 enacting the internment of civilians with Japanese ancestry. For questions and concerns, please contact APASA Coordinator at kristietham@arizona.edu.”

Feb. 19, 12 noon at APASA office, 1303 E. University Blvd., room 409A on fourth floor of Student Union Memorial Center.

APASA stands for Asian Pacific American Student Affairs.

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“The University of Arizona is excited to welcome a professional Rakugo performer from the English Rakugo Association in Japan for a special workshop and performance in English! Rakugo is a traditional form of Japanese comedic storytelling, performed while seated on stage with only a folding fan and a hand towel as props.

This year, we are offering both a workshop and a performance to give participants a deeper understanding of this unique art form.

Feb. 20,2025

“Workshop: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Main Library Room 112), 1510 E. University Blvd.

Performance: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (ILC Room 140), 1500 E. University Blvd.

✳︎Workshop registration is limited to 30 participants!

✳︎Performance seating is available for up to 150 attendees!

We encourage students, faculty, and community members to join this cultural experience. Instructors are welcome to share this with their classes, and students may inquire about extra credit opportunities with their professors.”

Register here: https://docs.google.com/…/1RZmwJQJBGDf63…/preview

For more information, please contact Noriko Hayashi at nhayashijoi@arizona.edu.

Come discover the humor and charm of Rakugo!