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September meeting - line, surface and mass and colour

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 September 21st 2024 Our September meeting was held as usual at the ABK Hall on Saturday, September 21, 2024. Sensei Molly Cherian gave a demonstration on line, surface and mass and colour. Sensei Molly wowed us with her fabulous demonstration. Sensei Molly was assisted in her demonstration by Susan Sudhir. For her first arrangement Sensei Molly used Caladium leaves for surface, Dracaena branches for straight lines, metal wire for curved lines, and Hydrangea flowers for mass in a Sogetsu ceramic container.                       Next she used a red biscuit tin as an improvised container. Dry umbrella palm branches painted in black was arranged as surface, yellow Heliconia as lines and curled Pandana leaves used as mass.               For the third arrangement Sensei Molly used a rust coloured metal pot as the container to achieve colour contrast. She used dry Mulberry branch as horizontal line, a single large papaya leaf as surface and Cana flowers along with a spray of Gypsophila arran
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August meeting: Demonstration on Line and Surface,Talk on Ikebana and Meditation by Sensei Chitra Rajan AND Workshop at Women's Christian College conducted by our Senior Senseis.

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Our August meeting was held on the 4th of August at ABK with 14 members in attendance.Three guests also attended the meeting The meeting began with our Chairperson Mrs Malathi Pandurang introducing our Sensei Chitra Rajan. Sensei Chitra Rajan is  a young teacher in ikebana and a young teacher in meditation.She is affiliated to the Heartfulness Institute formerly known as Sahaj Marg and Shri Ramachandra Mission. She is a certified meditation practitioner and teacher. Sensei Chitra began her demonstration with a talk on the origins of ikebana and its connectivity with meditation. Sensei Chitra shared the paragraphs below for the blog. The history of Ikebana has its origins in ancient times where Japanese following Shintoism expressed their faith in flowers . Even today, a branch of the sakaki tree, an evergreen, is offered to the shrine. The ancient Japanese believed that the divine spirit was present in all growing trees and plants.  When Buddhism was introduced through the silk route i
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JULY MEETING: DEMONSTRATION BY SENSEI PUSHKALA SIGNIFICANACE OF LINES IN IKEBANA ATTENDED BY NEW CONSUL GENERAL OF JAPAN IN CHENNAI AND HIS WIFE

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  Our First meeting of the annual Sogetsu Calendar was held at the ABK centre on Saturday the 6th of July. Our Chairperson Mrs Malathi Pandurang had invited the new Consul General of the Embassy of Japan in Chennai Mr Muneo Takahashi and his wife Madam Mrs Mitsyo Takahashi.Thirteen members participated in this meeting.      Sensei Meenakshi Sarin welcomed the chief guests in her address Mr Takahashi also briefly addressed  the members. Sensei Pushkala had invited Dr.P.D Gupta for this demonstration of hers. Together Sensei Pushkala and Dr.P.D Gupta have brought out many publications on a wide range of subjects including the adverse effect of  certain  lighting on the human body and infertility .       Our Chairperson introduced the new Consul General and his wife and also our demonstrator Sensei  Dr Pushkala and thus began the meeting. The theme for her demonstration was " Significance of lines in Ikebana". For her first arrangement,Sensei Pushkala had used a ceramic nagiere
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