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Flower Festival

Nakai Group

Open­ing Recep­tion: Mon­day, March 20, 2006
3-5pm Demon­stra­tion & Spring Cer­e­mony
6-8pm Open­ing Recep­tion — Remarks at 7pm

South Lobby Sec­re­tariat Build­ing,
United Nations Head­quar­ters, NYC

Onishi Gallery coor­di­nates an event “Flower Fes­ti­val” on the occa­sion of a cel­e­bra­tion of the Spring Ver­nal Equinox, col­lab­o­rat­ing with Project Har­mony and the UN Staff Recre­ation Coun­cil — Friend­ship Club from March 20–23, 2006. The Flower Fes­ti­val presents har­mony within diver­sity through a col­lec­tive exhi­bi­tion of Japan­ese Tra­di­tional Arts, fea­tur­ing works by Miy­oji Ishida, Hit­omi Miyakoshi, Isuke Nakano, Suirei Nar­i­sawa, Nori Noda and Fumiko Uesaka.

From Japan to the United Nations, the artists bring ancient won­ders, time­less beauty through Japan­ese Tra­di­tional Arts, empha­siz­ing the sym­bolic power of flow­ers through images with blos­soms for renewal, on the occa­sion of the “Spirit of the United Nations”, 60th Anniver­sary and the aware­ness of our respon­si­bil­ity for social devel­op­ment, global part­ner­ship and peace.

Orga­nized by: United Nations Staff Recre­ation Coun­cil — Friend­ship Club

Sup­ported by: NGO Com­mit­tee on Spir­i­tu­al­ity, Val­ues & Global Con­cerns, (CSVGC), Val­ues & Busi­ness, NGO-ECOSOC: Insti­tute of Inter­na­tional Social Devel­op­ment (I.I.S.D.), Insti­tute for the Devel­op­ment of Edu­ca­tion Arts & Leisure (I.D.E.A.L.)

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