Coming up – Spring Annual Tea Gathering

Spring Annual Tea Gathering
Sunday 18 October 2015

The Chado Urasenke Tankokai Sydney Association invites you to come and enjoy two different settings of traditional Japanese tea ceremony with them in the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Spring Annual Tea Gathering, Japanese Tea Ceremony, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, Australia

JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY
お茶会

チケット $20(二席 お抹茶とお菓子)
Tickets are $20 for two servings of tea and traditional sweets.

時間 ご予約
Sessions are 45 minutes long, and start at
11:00am, 11:45am, 12:30pm, 1:15pm, 2:00pm and 2:45pm.

ご希望の時間をお知らせください。
Please indicate which session you would like to attend when making your booking.

Email: chado.sydney@gmail.com
Phone: 0403 710 459 (Misako)

Chado demonstration for Tea Festival

16 August, 2015 (Sunday)

We performed chado for the Sydney Tea Festival. The Sydney Tea Festival aims to help people experience specialty teas, grow a passion for tea, and showcase quality specialty tea providers. This is the 5th year of the festival, but the first time showing the Japanese tea ceremony. Mista Matcha provided matcha for demonstration.

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Minokamo students in Dubbo

9 & 10 August, 2015

Dubbo and Minokamo city (Gifu prefecture) have been sister cities for over twenty years. Every year students from Minokamo visit in August. This year, ten students and two teachers came.

Last Saturday, I travelled to Dubbo and prepared with Dubbo members on Sunday. I opened ro and prepared utensils. After that, I taught fukusa sabaki and how to make tea to two members.

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Gyotei-sensei Seminar

Special Seminar by Sokan Toda gyotei-sensei
4 & 5 August, 2015
At The Japan Foundation Sydney

Toda Gyotei-sensei from Kyoto gave a special seminar at the Japan Foundation. Kyoto headquarters sent matcha and beautiful Japanese sweets, “kooriume” and “Funoyaki” for the seminar. And also Toda Gotei-senei brought a tin of matcha and sweets as souvenirs.

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