Sackville Ikebana Exhibition 2025

Added on by the ikebana shop.

Our ikebana exhibition this year was held on the weekend of Feb 22-23, 2025 at the Sackville Public Library. Thank you to all who came and visited us. We hope you enjoyed the show. We certainly enjoyed putting everything together!

It was an interesting challenge as the tops of bookshelves were used as platforms. So all the arrangements had to be designed to be seen from roughly around eye level and up. Also, we had to take care that no branches go past beyond the air space of the shelf, lest a library patron get poked in the eye while browsing the shelves!

The library’s main hall was a beautiful space with a large wall-to-wall glass window that allowed natural light into the space. It also afforded us with a breathtaking view of the outside scenery and was a wonderful backdrop for the demonstration. We used the shelves on the right side for the exhibition.

We’d like to thank the team at the Sackville Public Library—Eric D, Jasmina K, Ainslie C, and Doreen S—for your warm welcome. You made everything go smoothly! Thank you for entrusting your space to us for the weekend!

To Miyako’s students who gave so much of their time and effort to make this a success, well done and thank you! We hope you had a great experience.

Free-Style Arrangement by Robert L

Free-Style Arrangement by Miyako

 

Variation No. 5 by Leo A

Free-Style by Media C

Free-Style by Michelle C

Variation No. 3 by Denise P

Variation No. 4 by Heather N

 

Free-Style by Val S

Variation No. 5 by Brenda D

Free-Style by Linda K

Free-Style by Lyla H

Free-Style by Miyako

Free-Style by Linda C

Free-Style by Odessa G

Ikebana Demonstration by Miyako

And here are some members of our team having a relaxed moment! That was a lot of fun and we hope to do it again soon.

CBC and CTV News also featured us in their local news!

Read the CBC article here.

Watch the CTV News at 5 clip here.

Ikebana Exhibition in Sackville NS

Added on by the ikebana shop.

Miyako and her students will hold an ikebana exhibition at the Sackville Public Library on Feb 22-23, 2025.

Ikebana, the art of Japanese flower arranging, has a minimalist style that puts importance on negative space, imbalance, imperfection, and impermanence. Miyako Ballesteros, teacher of the Sogetsu School, has been teaching ikebana in Halifax since 2008. She and her senior students present a variety of arrangements for you to enjoy and understand this art form. There will be a live demonstration on Sunday, Feb 23rd, at 1 pm where you can see ikebana arrangements created right in front of you!

Admission is free.

Feb 22nd (Sat) 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Feb 23rd (Sun) 12 p.m. - 3 p.m.
(Short live demonstration on Sunday, 1 p.m.)

Sackville Public Library. (636 Sackville Dr., Lower Sackville NS)

We hope to see you there.

Happy New Year 2025!

Added on by the ikebana shop.

Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu! 明けましておめでとうございます。

We say good-bye to 2024 and thank you for your continued support. Looking forward to seeing you all in the Year of the Snake. We wish you good health and prosperity!