July Events at the Morikami

“Children of the Sea”
(Photo courtesy of GKIDS Films)

(PRESS RELEASE)_Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens July programming:

Tuesday, July 1 – Sunday, July 7
Family Fun: Tanabata
Time: 10am – 5pm
Cost: FREE for members or with paid museum admission. 
Make a wish for the Star Festival, Tanabata! Write your wish on a strip of colored paper, or tanzaku, and tie it to a branch of our Tanabata bamboo to celebrate.
Saturday, July 9, 16, 30

Japanese Language Intensive III (Virtual Workshop)
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $100 (3-day Workshop); Advance Registration Required
This intensive three-day workshop covers Units 4 and 5 of the required textbook and completes hiragana reading and writing. It concludes the Nihongo Level I series. The prerequisite for this course is Nihongo Intensive Workshop II or the Nihongo Level I Part 2 Class. Students who have completed this workshop may go on to the Nihongo Level II class in Part 1 of the following season. 
Sundays, July 10, 24 or Thursdays, July 14, 28

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Sado: Tea Ceremony (Beginners Class)
Time: 10:15am –12:15pm
Cost: $60 (Morikami Members $55). Advance Registration Required.
Expand upon your knowledge of Japanese tea ceremony in this hands-on class. Perform traditional Japanese tea ceremony, with its ever-evolving seasonal subtleties, in the authentic Seishin-an Tea House under the guidance of instructor Yoshiko Hardick. The tea ceremony changes from month to month and from season to season. 
Sundays, July 10, 24

Sado: Tea Ceremony (Intermediate Class)
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Cost: $60 (Morikami Members $55). Advance Registration Required.
Expand upon your knowledge of Japanese tea ceremony in this hands-on class. Perform traditional Japanese tea ceremony, with its ever-evolving seasonal subtleties, in the authentic Seishin-an Tea House under the guidance of instructor Yoshiko Hardick. The tea ceremony changes from month to month and from season to season. Intermediate course requires approval by the instructor before registering. 
Saturday, July 16

Youth Calligraphy (Workshop)
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm 
Cost: $20 (Cost does not include museum admission). Advance Registration Required.
Ages: 3rd Grade – 12th Grade*
*Children under fourteen must be accompanied by their parent/guardian in the workshop. The parent/guardian is welcome to enroll in the workshop alongside their child.
Learn how to write Japanese words with ink and brush, two traditional calligraphy writing implements. 
Sunday, July 17

Film Screening: Children of the Sea
Sponsored by JM Family Enterprises
Time: 11am (English dubbed)
2pm (In Japanese subtitled in English); 
(111mins., 2019, Non-Rated, Animation/Adventure)
Cost: $5 with paid museum admission (Children ages 3 and under free)
Ruka spends her summer at an aquarium, where she’s drawn into an enigmatic aquatic event alongside two mysterious boys raised in the ocean.
Thursday, July 21

Sunset Stroll 
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Cost: $8 (free for members). Advance Registration Required.
Member registration begins June 24 at 12 pm
General admission tickets open July 1 at 8 am 
Take a leisurely stroll after hours through Roji-en: Garden of the Drops of Dew, Morikami’s six distinct gardens. Cornell Café will be serving light hors d’oeuvres for purchase and the Museum Store will be open to browse. Enjoy live musical koto (zither) and shinobue (flute) performances at 5:45pm and 6:45pm on the museum’s lakefront terrace. Tickets must be purchased online in advance. Tickets will not be available at the door. Members also need to make a reservation. To purchase tickets, visit morikami.org/event/sunset-stroll/.
Saturday, July 23

The Art of Kokedama (Workshop)
Time: 10:30am – 12:30pm or 2pm – 4:30pm
Cost: $60. Advance Registration Required.
Kokedama is the Japanese art of growing plants in a moss-covered ball of soil. It is wrapped with string and contains an ornamental plant growing inside. These beautiful and decorative plants, brings an organic and natural touch to planting orchids, succulents, and other ornamental plants. Delray Beach floral and glass artist Claudia Henao will teach students how to create their very own kokedama.
Saturday, July 30

Sumi-e Brush Making (Workshop)
Time: 10am – 3pm
Cost: $150 (2-Day Workshop). Advance Registration Required.
Katazome is a Japanese resist process used for hundreds of years in Japanese textiles. Traditional artisans created a resist paste made from a rice flour mixture and applied to cloth through the use of elaborately hand carved stencils. Wherever this paste is applied will resist the dye, creating a pattern. Traditionally katazome is dyed with indigo to create the traditional white and blue of many Japanese textiles. During this workshop, students will learn fabric preparation and resist paste, creating stencils, and the dyeing of the fabric in a natural indigo vat. Along with having access to vintage stencils from Japan, students will also learn contemporary non-traditional methods that one can use at home.
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Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is located at 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. For more information, call (561) 495-0233 or visit morikami.org.