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Fun,
Fantasy, and Fanfare with Flowers, Sogetsu School’s 33rd annual
Rose Show, was held at the Japanese Garden Pavilion on June 6 –
7, 2003. The theme matched that of the Rose Festival and encouraged arrangers
to let their creativity show through beautiful arrangements featuring
roses.
This year’s show featured
a Renka Workshop on Friday evening, June 6. Renka is a relatively new concept
used by the Sogetsu School, and was taught here last fall by Koka Fukushima,
a teacher from the Sogetsu headquarters in Tokyo. Each team of arrangers
created an arrangement on the stage. Then, all arrangements were linked
together with bamboo to create one large arrangement that became a highlight
of the exhibition. Other
arrangements featured unusual materials such as copper tubing, wire mesh,
feathers, fiber optic flowers that glowed softly, and containers made
by arrangers’ spouses. Unfortunately, the extremely hot weather
necessitated replacing drooping flowers each morning.
Keiko Kodachi is the long-term Branch Director of the Portland Sogetsu
Branch. Her arrangement featured flowers representing a Japanese fairy
tale. Carmen Sivertson did a lovely arrangement as a memorial to Mary
Nakadake.
Mary Dickson was this year’s
Rose Show Chairman assisted by Hideko Hearn. Donna Tanaka, Amy Lu, and
Mary Dickson did demonstrations to educate visitors. Lois Bosland was
the liaison with the Rose Festival Association.
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