Press release from the Asheville Butoh Festival:
We are pleased to announce that Emiko Suzuki and the WNC Japanese Culture Center will provide lovely ikebana arrangements that will be up for silent auction at every performance. These beautiful floral gifts will help to support the Asheville Butoh Festival as well as introduce Emiko and Japanese culture to Asheville audiences.
WNC Japanese Culture Center at 629 5th Avenue West in downtown Hendersonville, is a dream venue of Manabu and Emiko Suzuki who are originally from Japan. They wish to share their native culture by teaching Origami, Japanese songs, Ikebana (traditional flower arrangement) and the tea ceremony ritual. The center shows Japanese films and provides gallery space for art related to Japanese culture. Emiko is an advisor of Ikenobo Ikebana Society (Blue Ridge Chapter) and Ikebana International (Asheville Chapter.) Ikebana and the tea ceremony are traditional Japanese art forms whose ritual and aesthetic have been transferred generation by generation for more than 500 years in Japan. Emiko has been studying these traditions for over 30 years.
For more information or to register for classes contact Emiko Suzuki, director of WNCJCC at IkenoboHVL@gmail.com.
What: The 10th Asheville Butoh Festival
When: April 7-10, 2016
Where: All events @ BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce Street, Asheville, NC10th Asheville Butoh Festival Schedule of Events
Thursday /Friday April 7 & 8, 7:30 pm
“Before The Dawn,” created and performed by Yumiko Yoshioka
General Admission $18, Students and Seniors $15Saturday April 9, 1-5 pm Workshop by Yumiko Yoshioka, $40/$75 for both
7:30 Local Color, Asheville’s own butoh crew, $18/$15 students and seniorsSunday April 10, 1-5 pm Workshop by Rumiko Yoshioka, $40/$75 for both
7:30 pm strange daughters, an evening of solos by Jenni Cockerel, $18/$15 students & seniorsWeb Sites: www.ashevillebutoh.com, www.acdt.org
Contact: Julie Becton Gillum, jbgbutoh@gmail.com, 828 683 1377For reservations: BeBe Theatre 828-254-2621
Box Office hours: M – F, 3-6 ppm
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