Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach, with its unique gardens and collections, is one of Palm Beach County’s most treasured cultural attractions. Located in a tranquil natural setting, Morikami invites visitors to explore its many facets and discover Florida’s heritage and its connection with Japan. In addition to the beautiful grounds, they offer classes, workshops, cultural demonstrations, and family fun.

July programming offered at Morikami:

Family Fun: Tanabata Time: 10am – 5pm Cost: FREE for members or with paid museum admission. 

Make a wish for the Star Festival, Tanabata! Write your wish on a strip of colored paper, or tanzaku, and tie it to a branch of our Tanabata bamboo to celebrate.

Japanese Language Intensive III (Virtual Workshop)

Time: 1pm – 4pm

Cost: $100 (3-day Workshop); Advance Registration Required

This intensive three-day workshop covers Units 4 and 5 of the required textbooks and completes hiragana reading and writing. It concludes the Nihongo Level I series. The prerequisite for this course is Nihongo Intensive Workshop II or the Nihongo Level I Part 2 Class. Students who have completed this workshop may go on to the Nihongo Level II class in Part 1 of the following season. 

Sado: Tea Ceremony (Beginners Class) Time: 10:15am –12:15pm

Cost: $60 (Morikami Members $55). Advance Registration Required.

Expand upon your knowledge of the Japanese tea ceremony in this hands-on class. Perform traditional Japanese tea ceremony, with its ever-evolving seasonal subtleties, in the authentic Seishin-a Tea House under the guidance of instructor Yoshiko Hardick. The tea ceremony changes from month to month and from season to season.

Sado: Tea Ceremony (Intermediate Class) Time: 1pm – 4pm

Cost: $60 (Morikami Members $55). Advance Registration Required.

Expand upon your knowledge of the Japanese tea ceremony in this hands-on class. Perform traditional Japanese tea ceremony, with its ever-evolving seasonal subtleties, in the authentic Seishin-a Tea House under the guidance of instructor Yoshiko Hardick. The tea ceremony changes from month to month and from season to season. The intermediate course requires approval by the instructor before registering. 

Youth Calligraphy (Workshop)

Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm 

Cost: $20 (Cost does not include museum admission). Advance Registration Required. Ages: 3rd Grade – 12th Grade* *Children under fourteen must be accompanied by their parent/guardian in the workshop. The parent/guardian is welcome to enroll in the workshop alongside their child.  Learn how to write Japanese words with ink and brush, two traditional calligraphy writing implements. 

Film Screening: Children of the Sea

Sponsored by JM Family Enterprises Time: 11 am (English dubbed)

           2 pm (In Japanese subtitled in English). 

(111mins., 2019, Non-Rated, Animation/Adventure)

Cost: $5 with paid museum admission (Children ages 3 and under free)

Ruka spends her summer at an aquarium, where she is drawn into an enigmatic aquatic event alongside two mysterious boys raised in the ocean. 

Sunset Stroll 

Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Cost: $8 (free for members). Advance Registration Required.

Member registration begins June 24 at 12 pm General admission tickets open July 1 at 8 am 

Take a leisurely stroll after hours through Roji-en: Garden of the Drops of Dew, Morikami’s six distinct gardens. Cornell Café will be serving light hors d’oeuvres for purchase and the Museum Store will be open to browse. Enjoy live musical koto (zither) and shinobue (flute) performances at 5:45 pm and 6:45 pm on the museum’s lakefront terrace. Tickets must be purchased online in advance. Tickets will not be available at the door. Members also need to make a reservation. To purchase tickets, visit morikami.org/event/sunset-stroll/.

The Art of Kokedama (Workshop) Time: 10:30am – 12:30pm or 2pm – 4:30pm

Cost: $60. Advance Registration Required. Kokedama is the Japanese art of growing plants in a moss-covered ball of soil. It is wrapped with string and contains an ornamental plant growing inside. These beautiful and decorative plants bring an organic and natural touch to planting orchids, succulents, and other ornamental plants. Delray Beach floral and glass artist Claudia Henao will teach students how to create their very own kokedama.

Sumi-e Brush Making (Workshop)

Time: 10am – 3pm Cost: $150 (2-Day Workshop). Advance Registration Required.

Katazome is a Japanese resistance process used for hundreds of years in Japanese textiles. Traditional artisans created a resist paste made from a rice flour mixture and applied it to cloth using elaborately hand-carved stencils. Wherever this paste is applied will resist the dye, creating a pattern. Traditionally katazome is dyed with indigo to create the traditional white and blue of Japanese textiles. During this workshop, students will learn fabric preparation and resist paste, create stencils, and the dyeing of the fabric in a natural indigo vat. Along with having access to vintage stencils from Japan, students will also learn contemporary non-traditional methods that one can use at home.

Morikami Museum and Japanese GardensFor more information, please call Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens at (561) 495-0233 or visit morikami.org.