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We are pleased to announce NAJGA’s Southwest regional event held at at the Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, April 5th - 6th.
Friday, April 5th, will consist of a lecture and garden tour. Steven Pitsenbarger and Kendall Brown will present the history of design in the Japanese Tea Garden and how this garden has influenced other regional Japanese style gardens. This will be followed by a twilight tour of the garden.
Saturday, April 6th, will feature a hands-on workshop: The Design Process. Garden designers Bill Castellon and Tim Hansken will share their design process and lead students in a design exercise in the Japanese Tea Garden. See below for schedule and presenter information.
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NAJGA Members: Please register using the email address that is linked to your NAJGA Membership account in order to receive the discounted rate.
Japanese Tea Garden of San Francisco Members: Don't have a discount code? Contact the Japanese Tea Garden to confirm your membership with them and receive your discount code.
Everyone: When registering multiple attendees please complete registration process for each individual, using unique email addresses. We apologize for the inconvenience due to this limitation of the registration system.
Cancellation: refunds may be requested up to 14 day prior to the event (a 10% administrative fee applies). Contact info@najga.org to inquire.
SCHEDULE
Friday, April 5th
StartingLocation: County Fair Building
1199 9th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94122
2:00 pm: Welcome
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm: History of design in the Japanese Tea Garden by Steven Pitsenbarger
3:30 pm: Short break
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm: Influence of the Japanese Tea Garden on the region by Kendall Brown
5:00 pm: Walk to Japanese Tea Garden (75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive)
5:30 pm: Meet at front gate of the garden
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Twilight stroll through garden (Food provided by Carol Murata)
Saturday, April 6
Starting Location: County Fair Building
1199 9th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94122
9:00 am: Welcome
9:15 am -11:00 am: Bill Castellon and Tim Hansken discuss design theory and process
11:00 am: Walk to Japanese Tea Garden (75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive)
11:15 am -12:15 pm: Select area of the garden to sketch/create ideas
12:30 pm -1:30 pm: Lunch back at County Fair Building
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Work on designs
PRESENTERS
Steven Pitsenbarger has been working as a gardener and historian at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park since 2007. Steven has presented on the history of the garden for many groups including the APA, San Francisco City Guides, San Francisco City College, as well as the 2018 NAJGA international conference in Portland. In addition, Steven currently sits on the NAJGA board of directors.
Bill Castellon has been in the landscape business for more than 40 years. For the past 20 years Bill has specialized in Japanese/natural style gardens. Bill learned stone arranging and garden building with Mas Imazumi and pruning with Dennis Makishima. He also spent a month as a guest of Mr. Tamane, head gardener at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto. Bill is a regularly a presenter at garden events including Stone arranging at the 6th International Symposium of Japanese Gardens in San Diego 2010. The Lutomirski garden he renovated with Ron Herman was featured at the NAJGA regional event in San Mateo 2017. Bill is a founding member of the APA and regularly leads volunteer pruning projects with the Merritt College Pruning Club. He also teaches classes at Merritt College. They include Pruning the Japanese Garden,Into to Bonsai, Pruning Pines as well as Placing Stones in the Landscape. Bill will share his process for designing gardens.
Bay Area native Tim Hansken has been designing and building Japanese gardens in China for the last two decades. An army graduate of the Defense Language Institute West Coast in Monterey, CA, and a double major in Mandarin and Japanese at SF State University, Tim has taught English in Korea, farmed Chinese vegetables in Santa Rosa, and collected Japanese artifacts. He currently collects Japanese illustrated books, kimono, haori, and films to put on museum shows in China to present a different perspective on Japanese culture for a Chinese audience.
Kendall Brown is Professor of Asian Art History at California State University Long Beach. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Yale University and an MA from UC Berkeley. He publishes actively in several areas of Japanese art as well as on Japanese-style gardens in North America. He was a co-founder and past president of the North American Japanese Garden Association, and served on its Board from 2012-2017. He has curated exhibitions for several American museums, exploring topics from modern woodblock prints and Art Deco to lacquer makers’ tools. He is currently working on an exhibition of sheet music cover illustration.
