Exclusive webinar with Sadafumi UCHIYAMA on Saturday, September 25
Exclusive Webinar with Sadafumi UCHIYAMA, the Chief Curator of Portland Japanese Garden, hosted by Niwa Japan (45 min Webinar + 20 min Q&A session)
Saturday, SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
9AM (PST – Pacific Standard Time: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc)
12PM (EST – Eastern Standard Time: New York, Boston, Toronto, etc)
6PM (CEST – Central European Summer Time: Paris, Milan, Berlin, etc)
5PM(BST – British Summer Time: London, etc)
Sunday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2021 *Please pay attention to the time
2AM (AEST – Australian Eastern Standard Time: Sydney, Melbourne, etc)
This webinar is a one-time live streaming event. Please be aware of your time zone.
Registration fee: 28 USD (about 24 EUR)
About Sadafumi Uchiyama
Sadafumi Uchiyama is the Chief Curator and Director of the International Japanese Garden Training Center at Portland Japanese Garden. The Garden has been acclaimed by a number of visiting Japanese dignitaries as one of the most beautiful and authentic Japanese gardens in the world outside Japan, as well as one of the foremost Japanese cultural organizations in North America. Uchiyama is a fourth-generation Japanese gardener from southern Japan where his family has been involved in gardening for over a century. Devoted to fostering relations between Japanese gardens in Japan and those outside of Japan, he served as one of seven founding members and the Secretary of the International Association of Japanese Gardens from 1996 to 2000. He has been involved in the development of the North American Japanese Garden Association (NAJGA) which was established in 2012, for which he was elected to serve as a Charter Member of the NAJGA Board and its Editorial Board.
He is a registered landscape architect in Oregon with a BLA and MLA from the University of Illinois. His representative projects include Osaka Garden, the site of the 1893 Great Columbian Exposition at Jackson Park in Chicago, the Shofu-en of the Denver Botanic Gardens and a Japanese garden at Duke University in NC.
Read more → https://japanesegarden.org/sadafumi-uchiyama/
About the Webinar
Sadafumi Uchiyama has been invited to speak about the following subjects:
1. Why did he become a professional Japanese gardener?
2. What does it imply to create a Japanese garden outside of Japan? (How should such Japanese gardens be viewed, and what are the difficulties in creating them in terms of available materials and climate differences)
3.What advice does Sadafumi Uchiyama have for those who wish to create their own Japanese gardens?
*There will be a Q&A session with participants after Mr. Uchiyama’s speech.
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