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Sunday, April 21 marked the 52nd annual Cherry Blossom Festival and Parade in San Francisco, and your Berkeley-Sakai Association once again made its presence known!
Barbara Stevens-Strauss is a Berkeley-Sakai Association Board Member who practices and shares with us traditional Japanese art forms including ikebana, raku ceramics, chabana and tea ceremony. Barbara will be teaching a Chabana workshop on June 22, 2019, from 2-4 P.M. at Takara Sake, 708 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94710. The Chabana workshop is a benefit for the Berkeley-Sakai Association. All flowers and natural elements for the workshop will be provide. There is a $50 fee for the workshop and the number of attendees is limited to 15.
In the workshop, We learn how to use flowers and natural elements, available in our gardens, to make multiple arrangements. If you bring your own vase, you can take home one of your creative arrangements. Please contact the Berkeley-Sakai Association or Barbara at
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of both the Berkeley-Sakai Sister City Relationship and the Berkeley Art Center.
Photos of Art Center event with Mayor Takeyama and Mayor Arreguin signing joint proclamation. Photos and music by Hideo Date and friends.
Sakai City Mayor Osami Takeyama and Mamoru Yoshikama, Chairman of the Sakai City Council, along with other Sakai Dignitaries, visited Berkeley during the period of April 19-23, 2017 in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of our Berkeley-Sakai Sister City Friendship. They were formally greeted by Berkeley's Mayor Jesse Arrequin and City Council Members.
