• You will make at least two free style arrangements.
• One centerpiece and one with two openings or two vases

Bonus Arrangement- If time allows you may also create a mini or any other freestyle but must be in an unconventional container to get credit. Use your imagination.

Please bring:

• At least two vases that you could use as a centerpiece on a dining table. Should be a low bowl or suiban as depicted above. Your wire and tape are essential.
• Any type of two opening or two like containers for freestyle as depicted above.
• Bonus – a mini or an unconventional freestyle container. Mini depicted above – use your imagination for an unconventional freestyle container
• Your lunch or a snack.

Please read:

• An Introductory Free Style Curriculum
• Joy of Ikebana Ikenobo – pages 2-34
• More to Learn Free Style
• Check the Resources page of this website for a list of what to bring to class

We arrive at 9:15 AM, set up for class and make any necessary ginza purchases. The lesson begins at 9: 30 AM and you are generally on your way home by about 2PM. Bring a lunch or snack to enjoy.

There will be a definitive break between the arrangements at about noon to allow everyone the opportunity to watch the critiques of all the arrangements and the chance to have a lunch break.

Please do not take your arrangement apart until all arrangements have been critiqued. If you need to leave before all arrangements have been critiqued, you will not get credit for the lesson. Plan your time accordingly.