July Events at the Morikami

Credit: Morikami

(PRESS RELEASE)_July workshops, classes, and demonstrations:

Saturday, July 1 – Sunday, July 2
Guest Artist Music Workshops (Workshops) 
Time: Beginners – 9am – 12:30pm (10am – 10:30am break) 
            Intermediate – 1:30pm – 5pm (2:30pm – 3pm break)
Cost: $200 Advance Registration Required 
The program is aimed at beginners, those with no or little experience with the koto. Workshops are taught by visiting koto musician Shirley Muramoto. 

Wednesday, July 5, 12, 19, 26
Member Morning Walks
Time: 9am – 10 am
Cost: FREE for members only 
Museum members are invited to experience and explore the serene beauty of Morikami’s Japanese gardens before the hustle and bustle of the day begins.

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Wednesday, July 5 – Sunday, July 9
Family Fun: Tanabata
Time: 10am – 5pm  
Cost: FREE for members or with paid museum admission. No Reservation Required 
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 1, 15, 29
Japanese Language Intensive III (Virtual Workshop)
Time: 12pm – 3pm  
Cost: $100 (3-day Workshop). Advance Registration Required
This intensive 3-day workshop covers Units 4 and 5 of the required textbooks 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.

Sunday, July 8
Family Fun: Teru Teru Tanzaku  
Time: 12pm – 3pm   
Cost: FREE for members or with paid museum admission. No Reservation Required 
Teru Teru Bozu are charms used to keep the rain away. Learn how to make one and combine it with a tanzaku, a strip of colored paper (for a small $2 donation).


Sundays, July 9, 23 or Thursdays, July 13, 17
Sado: Tea Ceremony (Beginners) (Class) 
Time: 10:15am – 12:15am 
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 9, 23
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 15
Calligraphy: Youth Workshop
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm 
Cost: $20 (Cost does not include museum admission) Advance Registration Required
*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 traditional calligraphy writing implements.

Sunday, July 16
Film Screening: Lu Over the Wall 
Sponsored by JM Family Enterprises
Time: 11am (English dubbed)
            2pm (In Japanese subtitled in English)
            (112mins., 2017, Rated PG, Animation)
Cost: $5 with paid museum admission (children ages 3 and under free)
From visionary anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa comes a joyously hallucinogenic but family-friendly take on the classic fairytale about a little mermaid who comes ashore to join a middle-school rock band and propel them to fame. Kai is talented but adrift, spending his days sulking in a small fishing village after his family moves from Tokyo. His only joy is uploading songs he writes to the internet. When his classmates invite him to play keyboard in their band, their practice sessions bring an unexpected guest: Lu, a young mermaid whose fins turn to feet when she hears the beats, and whose singing causes humans to compulsively dance – whether they want to or not. As Kai spends more time with Lu, he finds he is able to tell her what he is really thinking, and a bond begins to form. But since ancient times, the people in the village have believed that mermaids bring disaster and soon there is trouble between Lu and the townspeople, putting the town in grave danger. Winner of the Grand Prize at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival and an official selection of Sundance 2018, Lu Over the Wall is a toe-tapping, feel-good demonstration of Yuasa’s genre-mixing mastery that will leave you humming long after you leave the theater.

Thursday, July 20
Sunset Stroll
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Cost: $5 for members, and $8 for the general public.  
Enjoy a sunset stroll through the Roji-en: Garden of the Drops of Dew, or visit the Yamato-kan, the Morikami’s original museum, during the museum’s private, after-hours event. The Cornell Café will be serving sake and hors d’oeuvres for purchase, and the Museum Store will be open to browse. There will also be live taiko drumming performances by Fushu Daiko at 5:45 p.m. and 7 p.m. on the museum’s lakefront terrace. Tickets must be purchased online in advance and will not be available at the door. 

Saturday, July 22
The Art of Kokedama (Workshop)
Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm or 2:00pm - 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. Learn the mechanics of how to make kokedama, creating two regular size and one small one to decorate your home or to give away to a special person.
 
Friday, July 28
Documentary Film Screening: Resistance at Tule Lake 
Underwritten by Michael Sonnenreich
Time: 7pm
Cost: $10 (Member $7) 
Film & Discussion led by Director Konrad Aderer
The dominant narrative of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans has been that they behaved as a “model minority,” that they cooperated without protest and proved their patriotism by enlisting in the Army. Resistance at Tule Lake, a new feature-length documentary from Third World Newsreel and directed by Japanese American filmmaker Konrad Aderer, overturns that myth by telling the long-suppressed story of Tule Lake Segregation Center. Resistance at Tule Lake tells the long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government’s program of mass incarceration during World War II. Branded as “disloyals” and re-imprisoned at Tule Lake Segregation Center, they continued to protest in the face of militarized violence, and thousands renounced their U.S. citizenship. Giving voice to experiences that have been marginalized for over 70 years, this documentary challenges the nationalist, one-sided ideal of wartime “loyalty.”

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. ​