Career Development Office Presents
Ikebana: The Art of Flower Arrangement
Friday, November 5, 2021
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Demonstration & Workshop with certified ikebana (ikenobo school) teacher Michiko Hofuu Baribeau
Michiko Baribeau is a lifelong practitioner of the way of ikebana (ikenobo school) and also a Japanese tea ceremony master (omotosenke school). She formerly taught Japanese at Bard College.The workshop (i.e. hands-on flower arrangements) is for students taking the Zen Arts class by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz, but anybody is welcome to join and witness the ikebana teachings by Michiko Sensei. Please feel free to come by at any time during the demonstration.
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?"
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).
Sponsored by the Studio Arts Department.
Flowers kindly provided by the Bard Farm.
Come and see the flowers' last hurray!
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A