05/26 Last Sunday in May Mixing It Up!
05/26/2019 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM PT
Summary
MEMBERS receive complimentary admission for two. No reservation needed, simply check in. You may reserve for additional guests here.
Description
World Music Series Presents
The Irka Mateo Duo
with Woody Aplanalp on Guitar
at 2:00 p.m.
at 2:00 p.m.
Open Day Last Sunday
May 26
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$7.50 Online / $10 at the Gate
Welcome Summer With
Chinese Flower Arrangement,
Asian-Inspired Clothing And The
Vibrant Rhythms of Irka Mateo
Join us at the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden on Sunday May 26, 2019 for a multi-cultural Open Day to celebrate the beginning of summer. Programs are free with garden admission.
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Chinese Tea and Floral Art Demonstrations
Chinese Floral Arts Re-Imagined
With Hui-Mei Ko, Visiting Floral Master from Taiwan, Rose Zee, President of The Chinese Floral Arts Foundation-USA Charter, and
Vivian Chan, EVP/Curator CFAF USA-Charter
With Hui-Mei Ko, Visiting Floral Master from Taiwan, Rose Zee, President of The Chinese Floral Arts Foundation-USA Charter, and
Vivian Chan, EVP/Curator CFAF USA-Charter
Followed by Q&A
2:00 p.m.
Irka Mateo Duo
Irka Mateo is a Dominican singer-songwriter and folk music researcher who has brought the sounds of her native country to the wider world. Her artistic career has been one of breaking boundaries and embracing people’s deepest humanity especially through music. She is one of the pioneers of the Dominican alternative music movement and Afro-Caribbean fusion. Irka mixes Dominican popular and Afro/Indigenous/ European folk, such as mangulina, carabiné, sarandunga, congos, along with others Latin American and African genres such as cumbia, compa, tango and afrobeat. Her artistic sensibility incubated in Spain, France, Brazil, Canada, the United States and her native Dominican Republic.
Irka Mateo is a Dominican singer-songwriter and folk music researcher who has brought the sounds of her native country to the wider world. Her artistic career has been one of breaking boundaries and embracing people’s deepest humanity especially through music. She is one of the pioneers of the Dominican alternative music movement and Afro-Caribbean fusion. Irka mixes Dominican popular and Afro/Indigenous/ European folk, such as mangulina, carabiné, sarandunga, congos, along with others Latin American and African genres such as cumbia, compa, tango and afrobeat. Her artistic sensibility incubated in Spain, France, Brazil, Canada, the United States and her native Dominican Republic.
All Day On Sunday
Takara-ten
Garden Gift Shop
will be open
10am to 4pm.
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Tai-Ling Wong will be back with her beautiful Asian-inspired clothes from Citron.
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Last chance to see the exhibition, From Wabi to Whimsy; the Japanese-Inspired Tea Ceramics and Prints of Julie Bagish.