Calendar

Garden Related Events
May 17, 2021 - 5pm – Okan Arts Chats presents Patricia Belyea chatting with Amy Katoh, an expat in Tokyo who’s shared Japanese folk textiles with the world for the last five decades.  They'll talk about indigo, kasuri, and boro, as well as how an East Coast college girl ended up in Japan championing its traditional crafts for fifty years.   Click here to learn more.

May 22, 2021 – Ikebana International is presenting a beautiful online version of its Annual Exhibition, normally held at the Seattle Asian Art Museum.   Click here to learn more and to Register.

Garden Events
April 28, 2021 – Kaleidoscope Series:  Chado - Way of Tea with Omotesenke-style Tea Master Kyoko Matsuda (Virtual)
May 8, 2021 – Koi Day (virtual)
July 7, 2021 – Tanabata - Star Festival (virtual)
July 15, 2021 – Kaleidoscope Series:  Chado - Way of Tea with  Urasenke-style Tea with Keiko Tanaka of Tankokai  (virtual at 5pm.)
Aug 12, 2021 – Garden Party in the Garden
Sept 10 & 11, 2021 – Moon Viewing
Oct 8 - 17, 2021 – Maple Viewing

Every Sunday in May, 2021 – Virtual Children's Day Program

Unit86 Calendar

April 20, 2021 – Reading Group Discussion - 10am via Zoom
“The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa (1994) - translated by Stephen Snyder (2019).

May 18, 2021 – Continuing Ed - "Bonsai for the Curious" - 10am via Zoom
Bruce’s illustrated talk will introduce you to an ancient and worldwide gardening art form.  He has been a Master Gardener and Master Pruner since 2016.  He is secretary of the Puget Sound Bonsai Association, on the board of the King County Master Gardener Foundation, and is a docent at the Pacific Bonsai Museum.  Bruce’s primary gardening passion is bonsai.

June 15, 2021 – Dewey Webster - Preview  New Stone Carvings at SJG Booklet - 10am via Zoom

July 13, 2021 – Reading Group Discussion - 10am via Zoom
Guest speaker Jay Rubin—writer and translator—“Imagination in Translation” 

August 17, 2021 – Continuing Ed - "Shinto, traditional Japanese religious belief and practice"
Lawrence Koichi Barrish, Negi/ Senior Shinto Priest, Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America - 11am via Zoom

September 14, 2021 – Continuing Ed - “Japanese Textile Treasures” by Patricia Belyea, Okan Arts - 10am via Zoom

October 12 2021 – Autumn reading discussion of Tokyo Ueno Station

October 23 2021 –  Unit 86 General Membership Meeting - 10am (more info soon)

SPECIAL:

Continuing Ed Meeting from May 2020 re: "Favorite Gardens we have Visited" by Unit 86 Members. 
Recording available for your viewing at: https://youtu.be/K7qrPcBv_cE  

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