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Star Festival at Mayfield Street

Bring your child to celebrate the Star Festival and support the orphans of the New Year's earthquake.

2 Mayfield Street

4.9 (535)

2k followers

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1 hour

1 to 15

$20 - $30 ($20 per Children's activities, $30 per Tea Ceremony)

Melbourne

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What you'll do

Dive into the charm of Tanabata, the Star Festival, and support the orphans of Japan’s New Year earthquake.

For Japanese children, New Year's Day is the most joyous day of the year. But this New Year's Day, Japan was hit by a massive earthquake. 75, 000 houses collapsed, 19, 000 houses are still without water, and many children lost their lives or became orphans.

Join Keiko Fujiwara and her friends at Mayfield Street to support the children of the Japanese earthquake. Bring your own children to experience some aspects of Japanese culture that they will enjoy and help us send our love and support to the people of Japan.

Includes:

A traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
Your own Japanese tea bowl made right here at Mayfield Street!
Listen to the tale of Altair and Vega.
Origami, Ink Painting, and Calligraphy.
Japanese sweet dumplings to make and eat.
Tanabata wish writing to send love to the children.
Japanese kimonos to try.
Japanese harp music throughout.
Additional tea bowls, edibles, and story books available to purchase on the day.

All Profits Donated to the children affected by the New Year's Day earthquake in Japan.

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Add-on available for this class

Additional child for activities only ($20)

You can add these when you book (optional).

Knowledge required

None!

What you'll get

A hand-made Japanese tea bowl plus a Japanese sweet to enjoy with your tea tasting experience, origami, ink painting, calligraphy, and Japanese dumplings. A reading of the story of Tanabata, an opportunity to connect with Japanese children in need. The story of Tanabata and other Japanese-styled ceramics will be available for purchase on the day.
Children are invited to stay for a maximum of 2 hours to take part in the activities.

What to bring

Yourself (as an adult)
A child or a few if you want to share the experience.
Or just a child for the tea ceremony and activities.

Location

2 Mayfield Street, Abbotsford VIC

More about this experience

This experience is new, and this host has 535 reviews for their other experiences - which you can see here.

This experience is also covered by ClassBento's money-back guarantee.

Your host

2 Mayfield Street

4.9 (535)

2k followers

Two siblings, Sally and Michael, restored a mid century warehouse in Abbotsford to create a ceramics studio, wood workshop and boutique cinema and invited anyone and everyone to share the space! Now the whole family helps out, inviting people to share in creating a creative and inclusive experience for anyone who needs 20 seconds of inspiration to fuel their day.

“We had this idea to create a place where we could do the things we like doing, and then we thought … hey, maybe other people would like some space to do something they like too…”