Ikebana: The Japanese art of flower arrangement
Monday, March 13, 2017
Center for Spiritual Life (basement of Village Dorm A)
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Demonstration by certified ikebana (ikenobo school) teacher Michiko Baribeau
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, is a practice of mindfulness. Cultivating ikebana means walking the meditative path (dao/do) to be in an intimate dialogue with the natural world: ka-do, the way of the flower.Ikebana teaches respect, the balance between control and letting go, the law of impermanence, and stresses the importance to see things as they are (thusness).
Ike, meaning “living”, and bana, meaning “flowers” can be translated to living or natural flowers. As Marcia Shibata, an ikenobo teacher (Ikenobo is the oldest classical school of flower arranging in Japan), asks: “Who is the arranger? What is being arranged, anyway? What is arranging? Is there such a thing as non-arranging arranging?”
Michiko Baribeau is a lifelong practitioner of the way of ikebana (ikenobo school) and also a Japanese tea ceremony master (omotosenke school).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Center for Spiritual Life (basement of Village Dorm A)