Event Reviews

December 10, 2021 – A Celebration of Tradition – Series 4, Holiday Arrangements A celebration of Tradition – Series 4. Live production will feature our teacher advisor for Aratame schoool, Sumi Metz. Sumi Metz has taught Ikebana for more than 40 years in Nagasaki Japan and in the United States and provides ikebana instruction for…

November 19, 2021 – A Celebration of Tradition – Series 3, Autumn Joy Live production will feature our teacher advisor for Wafu school, Fusako Hoyrup. Fusako Hoyrup is the founder and President of the California Chapter of the Wafu School of Ikebana. Her study of ikebana began over 60 years ago in Japan where she…

October 15, 2021 – A Celebration of Tradition, Series 2: Autumn Breeze Joan Yusui Suzuki was born in San Francisco and moved to Japan at age six. While in Japan, she began her studies in Sogetsu Ikebana and received her first teaching certificate at the age of 16. Upon her return to the US in…

September 17, 2021 – A Celebration of Tradition, Series 1 Our zoom program will feature our teacher advisor for the Ohara School, Mrs. Kayoko Fujimoto. Kayoko Suiyo Fujimoto is a Grandmaster of the Ohara School. She has led a large and devoted group of Ohara teachers and students for six decades. Included in a long…

May 21, 2021 – May Flowers We welcome you to our demonstration and exhibition for this year’s final program. On May 21st, Sumi Metz, Aratame School, and Katsuko Thielke, Sogetsu School, will present a program entitled “May Flowers”. The exhibition arrangements were made by six ikebana artists from 5 ikebana schools. Robyn Torres – Sogetsu…

April 16, 2021 – Hope Blooms with Spring Flowers The program will showcase the different styles of each school. Setsuko Iwami, represents from Ohara School, and Sharon Krawetz, is from Wafu School, will demonstrate. Arrangement exhibits by our Ikebana International Artists Dianne Krueger – Enshu School, Rebecca Shaw – Ikenobo School, Yoko Tahara – Ohara…

March 19, 2021 – Harmony The March 19th program features Kika Shibata, Riji of the Sogetsu School, in a program entitled “Harmony”. She started studies of Sogetsu Ikebana at an early age with her mother, Mrs. Shoka Narimatu. Awarded her teacher’s certificate in 1964, she earned the title of Riji in Mach of 1989. She…

The live program of this month will feature two Ikebana artists from two different schools : Louise Ow Ling (Ikenobo) and Ron Brown (Sogetsu). This program was presented live February 19, 2021 on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ikebanasf. It was recorded and can be viewed here:

Ikebana in the Virtual Age, Series 5: Welcoming the New Year with the Elegance of Ikenobo. We begin the New Year with Joseph Lam from the Ikenobo school in a program titled “Welcoming the New Year with the Elegance of Ikenobo”. Joseph is an award winning Ikenobo artist whose designs truly show the elegance of…