Pictures from the 2024 Youth Photography Workshops
Seattle Japanese Garden is open from noon on July 3rd. Visit the Tateuchi Community Room from 5pm - 6:30pm to see this year’s Youth Photography Exhibit.
The new talented group of artists participated in our youth photography workshops at the Garden this spring. The workshops were held in partnership with Youth InFocus.
From 3pm - 6:30pm guests of the Garden will have an opportunity to celebrate Tanabata - the traditional Japanese holiday celebrating the uniting of the stars Vega and Altair, usually occurring on the 7th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar.
The origin of Tanabata comes from the legend of Orihime and Hikoboshi - star crossed lovers separated by the Milky Way. Each year on the evening of July 7th, Orihime and Hikoboshi are allowed to reunite for one night only. In Japan, Tanabata is celebrated by decorating bamboo branches with origami ornaments and tanzaku, poems or wishes written on small strips of paper.
Our garden visitors will have the opportunity to participate in the cultural tradition to write wishes and tie them to bamboo displays throughout the garden.
Entry to the garden is free the whole day from noon to closing for Free First Thursday.
Supported in part by 4Culture.
Final entry to the garden is 45 minutes before closing.