With all the excitement of performances, games, and crafts at the Japanese Fall Festival, it sometimes is forgotten that there are many quiet, beautiful, and touching moments during the festival. Here's a photo gallery of quiet moments captured by the camera of artist Russ RuBert...
The annual kids parade, taiko and ballet performances, and festival dances highlighted the opening night of the Japanese Fall Festival. After that as the evening cooled down and dusk fell, hundreds of candles were lit for the beautiful candle light walks. Check out our photo gallery here...
For the first time in over a year, Springfield welcomes a cultural delegation from Isesaki, Japan for the Japanese Fall Festival. At the festival they will be performing tea ceremony, ikebana (Japanese flower-arranging), a kimono fashion show, and tradition Japanese festival dances.
Friday, September 10, 5:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Saturday September 11, 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Sunday, September 12, 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. see the full schedule here...
The weekend following Labor Day each September, the Springfield Sister Cities Association hosts the Annual Japanese Fall Festival in the beautiful Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden.
This year's Japanese Fall Festival will be held September 10-12 in the beautiful Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden. We will be honored with the performances by our delegation from our sister…
ISESAKI COMMITTEE – 2009 By Carolyn Gerdes & Mika Logan, Co-Chairs of Isesaki Committee. The relationship between Isesaki and Springfield is now approaching 24 years and in that time we…
by Cindy Jobe, Sister Cities coordinator. Remember the news headlines in April and May of last year? The stories about the H1N1 virus seemed to be non-stop. Unfortunately for that…