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April workshop - Dalley's debut demonstration

The lovely arrangements that were done in the workshop following her demonstration. We also had two special guests at our workshop, courtesy prerana, and we had friendship through flowers with them, one of whom was a Sogetsu artiste from Pakistan!
Posted by Sogetsu at 9:45 AM No comments: Saturday, April 12, 2014

The Auroville group visits us

March 22nd, 2014.

Sensei Valeria Raso Matsumoto and her group visited us from Auroville. She consented to give us a demonstration on "Techniques", and Dalley Verghese was our gracious hostess for a wonderful morning.

Her daughter was a great assistant to her, not only to carry out the demonstration, but helped her by translating her words for us.

Valeria had interesting shapes of containers and it was remarkable how she had carefully packed them along with the leaves and other materials of her choice for the demonstration.  She began with the white circular vase with an interesting opening.

Dally had prepared the venue in her home for this event so beautifully and with superb taste, the event looked gorgeous. Meenu had organised the programme so meticulously, keeping an eye for details and the whole programme was superb! Thank you all for this wonderful effort.and a memorable morning.
Our members then created their own freestyle compositions, and Sensei Valeria gave her valuable comments on these.

Unfortunately, we don't seem to have pictures on these.

Valeria drove from Puducherry along with 9 of her students, some of whom we had already met and so we renewed our friendship, and were very happy to meet the new students. We had lunch at the Presidency Club and we thank Trishala for organising this. Later Valeria and her team drove to the ikebana exhibition by our members and then returned to Auroville.
Posted by Sogetsu at 12:30 PM 3 comments: Friday, April 4, 2014

Japan festival ABK AOTS Dosokai had their annual Japan Festival between Friday 21st March and Sunday 23rd, at their own premises on Nelson Manickam Road.

The Sogetsu Study Group was happy to participate and display Sogetsu Ikebana along with the Japanese dolls, origami and Bonsai exhibits.  There were also Judo demonstrations to attend as part of the festival.

All of us assembled on the evening of the 20th to put up our arrangements, and since we each had to do just one piece, we were done fairly quickly!

Here are the pieces we did, in no particular order.  For some of them, the wall or the curtain worked as a good background.  For others, we tried to use a black cloth background to highlight the arrangements.

This is one area we need to improve upon - our photography and recording of our work, giving more focus on the lighting and the background.

And now, we steel ourselves for the Chennai summer, and look forward to gathering again once the mercury falls!
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