tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57631011149775130642024-02-20T00:58:57.686-08:00Horaizonsunderstanding, harmony and cultural exchange all in a bowl of teaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger222125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-59977146762273912442022-10-03T08:03:00.000-07:002022-10-03T08:03:17.456-07:00City of Eureka Dedicates Kamisu Park
https://kiem-tv.com/2019/02/05/city-of-eureka-plants-trees-and-dedicates-park-to-kamisu-japanese-delegation/
https://kymkemp.com/2019/01/27/eureka-to-welcome-sister-city-kamisu-japan-for-tree-planting-and-art-exchange-in-february/
hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-487174632578001092016-11-27T23:04:00.001-08:002016-12-09T11:56:03.077-08:00Imōto (Sister): Sister City Exhibit
Kashima Jingu Ichi no Torii
Imōto (Sister), an exhibit of photos of Kamisu, Japan, Eureka's Sister City, by Holly Harvey and the Horai Center at Studio 424, 424 Third Street, Eureka. An opening reception will be held during Arts Alive!, Dec. 3, 2016 from 6-9 p.m. The exhibit and opening are a fundraiser for the Sister City Association, and a portion of gallery sales will benefit the hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-55822556305194076712016-09-02T10:44:00.001-07:002019-12-17T19:37:45.703-08:00The Port of Kashima
Eureka tour boat at the Port of Kashima. Holly Harvey
The Port of Kashima, adjacent to Kamisu -- the Sister City of Eureka, California -- is one of the world’s largest artificially-excavated ports. Kamisu (神栖市 Kamisu-shi) is a port city located in Ibaraki Prefecture on the east coast of Japan. As of March 1, 2008, the city has an estimated population of 93,551 and a population hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-8312287996182039402016-08-25T17:18:00.002-07:002016-08-25T17:18:37.945-07:00Living the Dream
It is with gratitude that we offer this guest post from Fred Nelson, a stalwart supporter of the Eureka-Kamisu Sister City relationship. Fred, along with several locals, hosted, drove and toured with a Japanese family as they realized a man's long-time dream to visit the redwoods of Northern California.
Prairie Creek State Park / Redwood National and State Parks
This month I had the hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0Eureka, CA, USA40.8020712 -124.163672940.7058872 -124.32503439999999 40.8982552 -124.0023114tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-41603132071525078552016-07-15T15:14:00.002-07:002016-07-15T15:14:57.092-07:00Cha-no-yu at HSU
Horai Center is offering a presentation of Cha-no-yu, Wednesday, July 27 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Humboldt State University Library Fishbowl meeting room.
This demonstration is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.Visit http://humboldt.libcal.com/event.php?id=1128971 for reservations and information, or email horai.center@gmail.com.
HSU parking regulations apply. Visit hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-30895912241261192412016-04-07T16:55:00.000-07:002016-04-07T16:55:31.961-07:00I'm a Little Tea BowlAdd a tea bowl emoji to your next text or email. Find them here at Emojipedia:
hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-12877196297672871842016-03-30T12:41:00.000-07:002016-04-07T01:44:44.087-07:00New Eureka-Kamisu Sister City Website LaunchedBehold the brand-spankin' new Eureka-Kamisu Sister City website:
And a big round of applause to developer Johnson Tilghman!hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-83159389711814472472015-12-10T14:32:00.002-08:002015-12-10T14:34:09.686-08:00Side-by-Side Matcha ComparisonsAccept no substitutes. Thanks to Yunomi Tea's Instagram feed we can visualize the difference between these three grades of tea.
Continuing the matcha comparison (photos brightened a little at the same rate). From top to bottom: Yunomi Factory Direct Organic Uji Matcha G1 (ceremonial grade master class), G5 (culinary grade) and a "matcha" from China that we received as a sample. hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-58909069181377894252015-09-30T08:00:00.000-07:002015-10-05T20:42:37.417-07:00Horai Center Attends Sister City Celebration
Ten years ago, the modern city of Kamisu was formed by a merger of the former town of Kamisu and the neighboring town of Hasaki. The city planned to commemorate this event with a ceremony in August, and invited its Sister City Eureka to attend. Harvey II and Holly Harvey of the DreamMaker program Horai Center were appointed as representatives to attend the ceremony.
After becoming Sister hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-4503169831909726582015-07-21T19:29:00.004-07:002015-07-21T19:29:57.239-07:00Horai Center to Represent Eureka at Kamisu Celebration
Horai Center will represent the City of Eureka, California, at a ceremony celebrating its Sister City of Kamisu, Japan on Aug. 1, 2015 as it celebrates the 10th anniversary of incorporation.
Below is a video produced by Eureka television station News Channel 3, with a look back to the beginnings of the Sister City relationship begun in 1991 with then-mayor Nancy Flemming.
httphollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-18268464664181381492015-07-03T09:57:00.001-07:002015-07-03T09:57:37.563-07:00Timeless Hour
Scroll and flower arrangement
Ichi-go ichi-e (one chance, one meeting)
This week we had the pleasure to present a demonstration of Cha-no-yu at the Humboldt State University Library. The Library's Lifelong Learning program organizes short lunchtime programs for the college campus and surrounding community. We shared Tea with 40 or so people in the beautiful Fishbowl meeting room. One hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-48854756769649394432015-06-03T09:30:00.000-07:002015-06-03T09:30:00.618-07:00To Make a Long Story Short, Join Us For TeaIt feels as though this should begin with a confession: It has been two years since our last tea demonstration.
Two years ago we had good momentum and enthusiasm for our projects, especially the re-energized Eureka-Kamisu Sister City committee. After a good start, things seemed to stall. Later, we had a death and illnesses in our families. We lost our enthusiasm for outreach and fell out of hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-35259934049774969962015-02-19T17:07:00.000-08:002015-02-19T17:07:12.074-08:00Happy New Year of the Ram
Japanese dorei (clay bells) in the shape of the Twelve Zodiac Animals
hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-54516964820487497742015-01-13T10:19:00.001-08:002015-01-13T10:27:33.412-08:00'Wabi-sabi: Tea Ceremony Ceramics' Exhibit in ArcataThis month, enjoy Lauryn Axelrod's exhibit of Wabi-sabi: Tea Ceremony Ceramics at the Fire Arts Center in Arcata.
Chawan on display in the gallery
A variety of shapes and glazes
Surrounded by pottery in progress, Axelrod offered a demonstration of Chanoyu, a discussion on wabi-sabi and Chado, the Way of Tea, in the studio's working space.
Wabi-sabi: Tea Ceremony Ceramics hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-37466979249777756002015-01-07T12:47:00.001-08:002015-03-26T09:08:49.251-07:00The Forecast is Green for 2015
Matcha (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Green food, that is: Kalette, pot, and green tea are trending foods for 2015.
Tea is making the food trend lists from CBS to NPR. Takepart.com listed matcha as one of "four foods for health nuts." World Tea News reports that tea was gaining ground in 2014 and will continue to do so this year.hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-64131225541956477762014-03-07T14:34:00.002-08:002014-03-07T14:34:54.120-08:00Early Sakura BloomsCalifornia had a particularly dry winter, which may account for early blooming of our local cherry trees.
For the past several years we have held a Tea Ceremony demonstration and Ohanami, or cherry blossom viewing, on the Old Town Gazebo in April. This year, however, it seems the trees will be finished with their blooms before we can organize that event. They're in full bloom now!
hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-10816238258596072202014-02-03T13:57:00.000-08:002014-02-03T13:57:37.848-08:00Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!Demons out! Luck in!
In case you saw no Oni at which to throw your soybeans, here are some.
We didn't see any oni either, so that's good. Happy Setsubun! hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-80007592460836733162013-10-18T11:01:00.001-07:002013-10-18T11:01:38.249-07:00Tea Time, Circa 1956hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-78650619735134637452013-10-16T12:31:00.003-07:002013-10-16T16:06:38.058-07:00Looking for the Hakone Daichakai? Try here:
[UPDATE] The Hakone Gardens site appears to be fine (http://hakone.com/events/upcoming-events.html). Perhaps it was a browser-cache issue on my part. Perhaps it was gremlins. We may never know.
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"Something happened."
That's what a friend of mine likes to say when she can't quite find the words to express herself. I like to use the phrase when I can't find an explanation.
Seems hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-14445268896235307262013-06-10T14:12:00.000-07:002013-06-10T14:12:19.084-07:00'Give it Over To The Fire'
Pottery by Dave Zdrazil
Humboldt County artists open their studios to the public for North Coast Open Studios on the first two weekends in June. This is an annual "must-do" for us.
We usually make a long day of it, visiting as many studios as we can pack in. This year we were limited to just a single day, so we pared our list down to two husband/wife studios: Lorraine Lindley and Mark Young,hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-7000722544772784012013-06-10T09:56:00.001-07:002013-06-10T14:16:43.960-07:00Stumbling Through the InternetDiscovered a couple new-to-me websites today and thought I'd share.
http://www.thewayofteainla.blogspot.com
About chado, written by tea practitioner and instructor Lauren Deutsch.
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com
About pottery, written by Minesota pottery artist Lee Love.hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-80354459487495445922013-05-28T18:33:00.001-07:002013-05-28T18:33:30.729-07:00April Ohanami Tea Ceremony and Taiko DemonstrationA busy springtime leaves little time for writing! After our demonstration and fundraiser in April we found ourselves busier than usual with little energy or time to spare.
As we settle now to a more normal pace of life we're finding some snippets of time to catch up. Here are some photos from our spring Ohanami Cherry Blossom Viewing Tea Ceremony and Taiko demonstration.
Tea ceremony hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0Old Town, Eureka, CA 95501, USA40.80462127765098 -124.1660439727691640.803870277650979 -124.16730447276916 40.805372277650982 -124.16478347276916tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-19536940953141368232013-04-05T00:23:00.001-07:002013-04-05T00:29:29.429-07:00Ohanami/Tea Ceremony Demonstration UPDATE
Sunday, April 7, 2013, Noon-2:00 p.m.
NEW VENUE IN CASE OF RAIN:
Vance Hotel Lobby, 525 2nd St., Old Town, Eureka
A last update as we head into this rainy weekend — yes, the forecast this weekend is for rain — so no tea outdoors beneath the cherry trees. But we're very fortunate to have the lovely Vance Hotel lobby as our new and larger alternate venue! The Vance is located at 525 2ndhollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-82963882790178960762013-03-27T23:29:00.000-07:002013-03-27T23:29:31.293-07:00It's Cherry Blossom TimeWe're celebrating with a Japanese Tea Ceremony and Taiko Demonstration!
Enjoy the cherry trees on Eureka's Old Town Gazebo with a demonstration of the Japanese
Tea Ceremony and traditional Taiko drumming on Sunday,
April 7 from noon to 2:00 p.m., Second
and F streets in Old Town, Eureka. This
event benefits the newly-revitalized Eureka-Kamisu Sister City Association.
Kimono
or other hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763101114977513064.post-62684482133884930132013-03-15T16:00:00.001-07:002013-03-15T16:00:52.926-07:00Inspiration
The wind of Mount Fuji
I've brought on my fan
A gift from Edo
— Bashō
A breath, a breeze. That's how brief it seemed as we presented an introductory course on "Chado: The Japanese Way of Tea" through Humboldt State University's OLLI program.
There is so much to learn about the Way of Tea that it seems impossible to even contemplate such a course, but our intrepid hollymharveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460214372095221256noreply@blogger.com0