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Sonnenberg Receives Grant Funding to Support Japanese GardenSonnenberg’s Japanese Garden is one of 250 Japanese Gardens in the U  |
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Sonnenberg’s Japanese Garden is one of 250 Japanese Gardens in the United States and just one of 100 Japanese Gardens in the U.S. with a tea house. In February, Sonnenberg was awarded a $12,000 grant from the Rochester Area Community Foundation for its Japanese Tea House Renovation Project.
David Hutchings, Executive Director of Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park, received a GO! Grant which enabled him to accept an invitation to attend the regional meeting of the North American Japanese Garden Initiative held at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on June 28, 2010. The grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and administered by Museumwise, allowed Hutchings to share ideas about Japanese Garden-related resources and sustainability practices with employees of public and private gardens with a Japanese Garden, Japanese garden designers and builders along with Japan-related cultural artists and organizations.
This September Sonnenberg will collaborate with the Rochester Oriental Garden Society, Rochester Area Haiku Group, the Rochester Japanese Association, the Bonsai Society of Upstate New York and Ikebana International, Rochester Chapter 53 to present a weekend celebration of Japanese culture. Proceeds from these events will support Sonnenberg’s Japanese Tea House Restoration Project.
EVENTS SCHEDULE FOR SEPTEMBER 24-26:
There will be Ikebana arrangements in the mansion and a bonsai exhibit in the Carriage House all weekend.
September 24: Moon Viewing Party in the Japanese Garden includes haiku readings, incense ceremony, music and food for sale. Bring a picnic dinner and enjoy the events, scenery, unique foods and full moon as we create our own version of this Japanese autumn celebration. $5 admission per person, $3 per child, ages 4-12. (Gates open at 5:00 PM. Events conclude by 9 p.m.)
September 25: Community Yard Sale 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Donations will be accepted in September. Please check www.sonnenberg.org for details.)
September 26: Japanese Garden Talk by Lucy Durkin (an Art History professor who lived in Tokyo from 2004 - 2007) at 1:00 PM followed by a Japanese Garden Tour by Dennis Burns
(a Japanese garden designer from Rochester) at 2:00 PM.
A memorial planting in the Japanese Garden will take place at 3:00 PM to honor Charles Oesterly, President of Rochester Oriental Garden Society and Founder with Dennis Burns and Bill Hart.
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