Ikebana: Living Flowers

'Therapy' we all need

Freaked out by the floods? Welcome to the Collective Experience

In "Therapy (After the Flood)", continuing onstage all this month, a husband and wife waiting to see a counsellor tell the audience what's wrong. He's an engineer who went a little crazy because of the flooding - and also because of his bossy wife.

Art therapist Anupan "Khru Mos" Pluckpankhajee gets them arranging flowers in a vase. Then he asks the wife to wait outside while her husband does some drawing and painting.

An SMS summons the husband from the room to make a call. The therapist ascertains that the message isn't from the wife and tells the husband to sit back down. The therapist sums things up for us after this 45-minute session.

"Therapy" is presented by the Collective Experience, led by Nophand Boonyai, and the Arts Container, a group of professional therapists who use different forms of art to ease or cure maladies.

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Source: The Nation

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Try your hand at floral design

Modesto Bee - Apr 30, 2011

Even the prettiest flowers can use a helping hand. That's where the art of arranging comes into play. When we're entertaining for Mother's Day or just for fun, spring flowers make a table look special — especially if displayed with

MFA Art in Bloom April 30-May 2

Boston Globe (blog) - Apr 19, 2011

Art in Bloom is presented by the MFA Associates, a volunteer group that contributes more than 40000 hours each year to the Museum by leading daily gallery tours, creating regional membership outreach programs, and arranging flowers in the MFA's public

Day: Contest made me appreciate the art of flower arranging

Toronto Star - Apr 29, 2011

And why bother anyway, when most flowers look fine, simply plunked in a jam jar? Yet, I recently warmed to this art form after getting roped into taking part in a flower arranging contest at Canada Blooms. Although my tropical gingers and foliage lost

Yokota elementary students enjoy Japan-Asia Day

Stars and Stripes - Feb 22, 8882

Whether it was donning a kimono, arranging flowers or sampling Asian cuisine, the students got a taste of the local culture. Japanese women from neighboring Hamura City helped 10-year-old Samantha McCracken into a kimono. “It was really fun.

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Winston-Salem Journal - Apr 15, 2011

In a back room, designers Jennifer Brannon and Jessica Rockwell are working on multiple projects at once — getting in orders, arranging flowers and creating container arrangements. The room is full of orchids, bromeliads and tightly bundled cut roses.