| | It's been so many years since first time Arts Mid-Hudson invited us to join this community festival, Spirit of Beacon Festival, as they are sponsoring ethnic groups so we could present cultural programs. This year, instead of Kabuki Face Painting as we did before, we brought Origami program so many could enjoy together with kids. We saw some decorations and ornaments much improved since last year. We had made some improvement on our own by providing a brand new tent since we'd experienced about 90 degrees temperature in the past. As always, a parade started at 1pm, with loud noise, laughter and faces with big smile.
Origami is becoming more popular, and we realize that we'd need to have better skill with more and new variety of origami shapes to be able to handle modern generations who could find Origami technique online. And, there he was, this "Origami Bob" suddenly appeared at our table and introduced himself to us. So I immediately invited (I said "hired") him, and in the next half hour or so he sat and taught two of our volunteers a few techniques. Right away you could tell he was not joking by looking at the way he was folding the paper - yes, just simply folding one corner of origami paper could prove he was very skilled and good. Thanks to Origami Bob for his kindness, and we look forward to seeing him at the next year's festival.
We can't express enough our sincere gratitude to Polly-san and Arts Mid-Hudson who organized and arranged many things for us to make sure we'd be able to do our job comfortably. The bottle of icy cold water never tasted better. And, of course, to our volunteer members who never complain about the temperature or anything but always, ALWAYS, offer their precious time and effort. THANK YOU!
Midori Shinye
Project Leader | | 9月27日 Spirit of Beacon Festival
民族グループがｶﾙﾁｬｰﾌﾟﾛｸﾞﾗﾑを提供できるようにArts Mid-Hudsonが後援しているこのBeacon Festivalに一番最初に誘って頂いてからすでに何年にもなります。MHJCAからは今年は過去数年やった歌舞伎ﾌｪｲｽﾍﾟｲﾝﾃｨﾝｸﾞの代わりに親子が楽しめるように折り紙ﾌﾟﾛｸﾞﾗﾑをしました。去年に比べると飾りつけ等が随分良くなっていることに気づきましたが、MHJCAも今まで過去に90度位暑かったことがあったので初めてテントを用意しました。ﾌｪｽﾃｨﾊﾞﾙはいつもの様に1時からﾊﾟﾚｰﾄﾞで始まり、沢山の人達が賑やかな音の中で楽しそうにエンジョイしていました。
折り紙は益々人気があって、最近はｳｪｯﾌﾞｻｲﾄで見れるのでもっと技術的にも折り紙の種類も進歩していかないといけないと思っていたところですが、そこになんと｢折り紙ボブ｣さんがうちのブースに現れて自己紹介してくれましたのですぐにお願いして(というか｢雇って｣)その後の30分位の間2人のﾎﾞﾗﾝﾃｨｱにいろいろな種類の折り紙を教えてもらいました。ボブさんが折り始めるとあれは単なる口だけでなく本物だということがすぐに分かりました。折り紙の角をちょっと折る手さばきだけを見るだけですでにボブさんはなかなかの技術者で腕のある方だということが証明されました。ボブさん、親切に教えて下さって有難うございました。ぜひ来年またお会い出来ればと思います。
私達が心地良く作業が出来る様にいろいろな面で十分な準備と手配をして頂いたPollyさんとArts Mid-Hudsonに心から御礼を申し上げます。皆に配って頂いた冷たい水が大変有難かったです。それからﾎﾞﾗﾝﾃｨｱの皆さん、暑いとか苦情も全く言わずにいつも快くお手伝い頂いて本当に感謝します。有難うございました。
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新江 緑 | |
