Apr 12, 2010 Posted by Mark Morden in Cherry Blossom Festival, Exhibition, Festivals, Public Folding Event

PAPER at the 2010 Seattle Cherry Blossom Festival

This coming weekend, April 16-18, is the 2010 Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival at the Seattle Center. The event will be a rich array of exhibits that will delight all of your senses.

The 2010 festival theme, “After 150 Years: Youth, Skateboarding and Hapa Experience,” celebrates the official ratification of the U.S.-Japan amity treaty. Highlights include:
· Photographic exhibit, “Scenes of Childhood: Sixty Year of Postwar Japan”
· Skateboarding activities and demonstrations by Japan’s Pro-Teen Element team and star skateboarder Ryo Sejiri
· Forum, “Hapa Experience,” exploring the identities, cultural traditions and experiences of Japanese mixed-race, including many prominent local Hapa
· Performance by Nanda, filled with stage combat, juggling and ninja-like acrobatics

And of course, origami! PAPER will have a booth at the festival. We will be teaching visitors young in age and young at heart how to fold flapping cranes and jumping frogs, among other models. We will also have an exhibit of our best pieces on display for the weekend. Look for us in the Fisher Pavilion, next to the Center House.

The hours of the festival are 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Friday and Saturday and 10:00 am – 5:00 pm on Sunday.

Here are directions for how to get to Seattle Center by car, bus, or monorail.

The Fisher Pavilion is number 37 on this map of the Center.

See you at the festival!

Mar 10, 2010 Posted by Mark Morden in Meetings

March PAPER meeting

This Sunday, March 14, will be our next PAPER meeting. This month we get together at the library in Redmond from 1-4 pm. We have two projects planned for the afternoon. I will teach a one-piece box with a woven closure. This model was created by Clemente Giusto. Rebecca will teach her own modular to us. It doesn’t have a name, but for now we can call it the “It’s not the Ichi Bashi ball” modular. Come see for your self. Here is information about the Redmond Library.

Please note that we will not be having a meeting in April. There are several events we will be participating in during the month. The first weekend we will have a booth at Sakura-Con as well as hosting a folding session at the SAAM on Saturday, April 3. The weekend of April 16-18 is the Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival. We will be there teaching origami to the festival visitors. With so much going on, we’ll take a meeting break next month.

To find out more about these events and how you can participate either come to our meeting on Sunday or email me (markmorden AT comcast.net) or Lori Gregory (loribethg AT comcast.net).