Free Online Origami Workshop at Japanaroo Opening Night

Join Midori for the free origami workshop

free origami workshop
“Japanaroo” Opening Night will be a free virtual event on Friday 20th August from 5.30pm(AEST) Everyone is welcome.
My origami workshop will start at 5.30pm. Please prepare the three sheets of square paper and a pair of scissors.
It will be easy and fun origami for everyone!
No need to book the workshop. But I can send the notificationg including the updates if you book through this Eventbrite page. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/167187445149
Attending the event, you’ll have a chance to win great prizes, including the return flight to Japan.
Take your origami after the workshop and post with #japanaroo to enter the competition.
Celebrating the Australia-Japan relationship, Japanaroo offers you Japan at your doorstep. Free to join the opening, find out more about Japanese culture! For more details and how to participate, please visit www.japanaroo.com
You can find out more about Japanese culture at Japanaroo Opening Night.
Hope to see you there!
Design: JETAA NSW
Powered by Consulate-General of Japan in Sydney, JETAA NSW, doq Pty Ltd, AJYD, J Culture Sydney &  Midori Furze
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2021-08-23T21:58:04+10:00July 31st, 2021|Origami, Projects, Service, Workshops|

Origami Workshops at Japanaroo 2021

Japanaroo will take you on a short trip to Japan in Sydney.

Feb 2019

The new Japanese project in Sydney will be on 20-29 August 2021!
I will run two origami workshops at Kintsugi Australia Studio in Sydney CBD.
There are many reasons to do origami. I often say that origami is yoga for your brains. A nice exercise is good for your healthy life.

I will collaborate with Kintsugi Australia and offer you the workshops. You can choose one of the dates listed below.
Sat 21 August 11am-12.30pm
Sat 28 August 2.30-4pm

More info please go to: https://classbento.com.au/l/4jdz-w

My origami installation at the gala concert will be at the Sydney Conservatory of Music on 20 August, too.

origami roses
2021-07-13T14:21:09+10:00July 2nd, 2021|Origami, Projects, Service, Workshops|

Great fun with arty friends

Group exhibition at Narrabeen Tramshed

art and soul members

Mini exhibition at Narrabeen Tramshed Community centre
19-20 June 2021

It was rained again. But inside the exhibition space was filled with laughter and happiness.
We exhibited our own works and painted near the tables, talked and demonstrated our skills and learnt a lot.
Thank you for sharing a wonderful rainy weekend!

art and soul group
2021-06-21T14:36:02+10:00June 21st, 2021|Exhibitions, Origami, Paintings, Workshops|

New venue for the “Virgin Vessels”

Group exhibition continues at North Sydney Council Chamber

When we were restricted to our homes, it was time for me to clean up in my studio.
Most of my schedule of the workshops, demonstrations and exhibitions were cancelled or postponed, I have plenty of time to relax and do my own projects.

One side is closed, then the other opportunity has arrived. 25 members of the Primrose Paper Art group were given the space to exhibit the collaboration work at Project 2060: Home Ward Bound at Coal Loader Centre, North Sydney. 25 of us had learnt to make vessels using paper handmade from recycled paper. The project was great for all the paper artists with all levels of expertise and who work in a variety of mediums, to learn a new form of paper expression.
It was a fun project & a big exhibition. (The report and photo was in my blog on March 2021)

After that, we moved to a new venue at InTransit Art Space, North Sydney Council Chambers
1st Floor, 200 Miller Street, North Sydney till 19 July 2021.
Open 9am-5pm, Mon-Friday

2021-06-21T14:23:34+10:00June 21st, 2021|Exhibitions, Projects|

Podcast with Sally

Enjoy talking about my practice at the Podcast

Podcast by Sally
Big thanks to Sally-Anne Hurley from “How to Love the Sht Out of Life”
She is a wonderful interviewer and I enjoyed talking about origami.
She liked my origami bookmark with her name in Japanese charactors.
Podcast “How to Love the Sht Out of Life”: https://www.howtolovetheshitoutoflife.com/podcast/episode/4c86d5ad/episode-58-how-to-love-the-sht-out-of-origami-with-midori-furze
Midori's origami kangaroos
2021-05-26T13:33:19+10:00May 26th, 2021|Origami, Projects, Workshops|

Interview by Consulate of Japan Sydney

Interview by Jessica Scott

Honoured to be interviewed by the Consulate of Japan.
I was very excited and nervous at the same time about my interview by Jessica Scott from the Consulate of Japan, Sydney.
I am the 10th person to be interviewed, so, I have seen all Jassica’s interviews.
All of them are amazing people in Sydney.
Anyway, I love talking about origami and my projects.
Origami Koi Fish Kite
2021-04-24T23:15:12+10:00April 14th, 2021|Origami, Projects|

Origami Koinobori Project 2021

Feed Me More Kabuto – Visit JPF and fold the Origami

Origami Koi Fish Kite
Join us for the origami project!
In April and May 2021, Japan Foundation in Sydney (Level 4, Central Park 28 Broadway Chippendale NSW) runs the origami project. Anyone can join the fun.
You can make a samurai hat and it will be a part of the koinobori.
This project was well-received at an origami workshop in Tonga, 2019, which I was invited to by The Japan Foundation. I particularly like that this project is based around the concept that people can work together to create a large collaborative work while anyone can participate in at their own pace.
Furthermore, I think this is a project that suits our current situation, where social gatherings are restricted but our desire to be connected with others remains. The Japanese hoist koinobori every year in May, allowing them to swim in the blue skies of spring in Japan. It is these koinobori that wish for children’s good health. I wish that our origami koinobori brings us similar good health here.
2021-04-03T12:30:25+11:00April 3rd, 2021|Origami, Projects|

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