Sakura Festival

Sakura Festival on bright colors
 

Join us for the annual Sakura Festival on April 17, 2025

1:00 p.m. Ceremony in the Japanese Garden (weather permitting, will move to the Student Center if inclement weather)

  • Koto and flute performance
  • Dignitary Speeches
  • Clark College Treble Ensemble performance

2:00 p.m. Butterfly release by Student Life at the Andersen Fountain

  • Butterflies hold significant symbolic meaning in Japanese culture, representing a variety of themes and ideas. Their imagery appears frequently in traditional Japanese art, literature, and aesthetics, embodying various aspects of life, nature, and the human experience.

2:00 p.m. Activities and Displays in Gaiser Student Center

  • Display tables include: a tea ceremony, Ikebana, Japanese Club, and kendo club
  • Cookies by MCI Bakery and tea

2:30 p.m. Performances in Gaiser Student Center

  • Japanese Club
  • Tradiational Japanese Dance “Fuji Musume” (Wisteria Maiden)
  • Clark College Child and Family children art share
  • Takohachi drum group 

Hosted by Clark College with Vancouver Rotarians, and the City of Vancouver 

 The event is free and open to the public

For additional information please contact Michelle Golder at 360-992-2543

*If weather prohibits the opening ceremony from taking place outdoors, it will be held in the Gaiser Student Center.

Over 25 years ago, the City of Vancouver received a gift of friendship: 100 Shirofugen cherry trees. They were planted at Clark College, creating an enduring reminder of the bonds between our region and Japan. Over the years, those trees have grown and blossomed—as has that friendship, creating traditions like the establishment in 1995 of a sister-city relationship between Vancouver and Joyo, Japan, and our annual Sakura Festival, begun in 2006. 

Learn and see more about the rich history of the Sakura Festival.

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