Co-organised by The Peranakan Association Singapore and NUS Baba House.

Ikebana is the ancient Japanese art of floral arrangement where cut stems, flowers and leaves are skilfully arranged in a vessel to express the harmony between nature and the man-made.

Ikebana master, Dr Leonard Lim, will demonstrate how Peranakan design elements can be applied to the floral art with symbolic flowers and Nyonyaware.

Date: Saturday, 21 September 2019
Venue: NUS Baba House, 157 Neil Road, Singapore 088883
Time: 4.30pm – 5.30pm

 

(If you would like to explore the Baba House, please arrive just before 4pm.)

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS TALK.

OPEN TO TPAS MEMBERS ONLY.

Places are limited.
To register, please email: events@peranakan.org.sg

IMPORTANT NOTE: Those who register and do not turn up will be barred from registering for the next three TPAS talks/events.

Our talks have been very popular and were fully booked in less than 2 days. Unfortunately, there were still a handful of no-shows. This is unfair to the long list of members that we had to turn away because all the places were filled.


ABOUT THE SPEAKER

A practising dental surgeon, Dr Leonard Lim is the Founding President of Ikenobo Ikebana Society, Singapore Chapter. He has written books on Ikebana.

Between 2014 and 2018, Dr Lim studied at the Ikenobo Central Training Institute in Kyoto and was Best Student in every year of study. In 2018, he was selected to perform the floral offering at Rokkakudo Temple at the Ikenobo Spring Festival in Kyoto, a rare honour for a non-Japanese. His official rank, now, is Katoku, or Third Grade Senior Professor and is currently in his second year of a 3-year specialised programme in Kyoto.

 

Co-organised with the NUS Baba House