2015 / Asian American studies pioneers to gather for their reunion at CSU Long Beach, Sept. 27
California State University Long Beach Asian American Studies Reunion Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, CSULB Donation: $40 per person / $20 -student rate ReunionAAS@gmail.com RSVP deadline is Sept, 13 An evening of nostalgia open to students, staff, faculty and friends who are connected to Cal State […]
2014 / University Art Museum / CSU Long Beach / The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi / Thru April 13
University Art Museum / California State University Long Beach Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi January 25 – April 13, 2014 The human face and its expressive potential have inspired artists around the world for millennia. Arguably, Japan’s Noh theater provides an unparalleled domain for exploring emotion and representing the human countenance. Today, […]
2013 / Annual origami festival at Japanese garden in Cal State Long Beach campus, July 14
Community members can discover why people have been enchanted by the art of origami—Japanese paper folding—for centuries as the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) hosts its annual Origami Festival on Sunday, July 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guests will have hands-on experience creating a three dimensional […]
2011 / ”Defiant Gardens in Wartime” focus of Winter Lecture presented by Cal State Long Beach’s Burns Miller Japanese Garden, Feb. 25, 7:00PM
Pool in “pleasure park” in Manzanar Relocation Center, California. Photograph by Ansel Adams. (Source: The Library of Congress) The idea of self-empowerment and resistance by way of garden cultivation intrigues landscape historian and architect Kenneth I. Helphand, who explores the universal capacity of humans to endure extreme situations and their powerful responses via the constructed […]
Cal State Long Beach Lecture / Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime, Feb 25, 7:00PM
The Friends of the Japanese Garden in California State University Long Beach presents the 2011 Winter Lecture featuring Kenneth I. Helphand, author of Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime on Friday, February 25, at 7:00 pm at Daniel Recital Hall in the CSULB campus. Light reception and book signing to follow lecture. The Friends of […]
2010 / Chrysanthemum Show 2010 at Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, Sept. 24
The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at California State University, Long Beach Concert under the Stars: Kokoro Taiko Kai & Yoko Awaya Conservatory present the Art of Japanese Drumming and the Soul of Japanese Harp and Flute Friday, September 24, 6:30 – 9 p.m. The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at California State […]