Village Briefs
Hakone Festival celebrates spring
This year's Hakone Festival is set for May 13, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and takes place at Hakone Gardens, 21000 Big Basin Way, in the hills above Saratoga. This unique cultural experience includes traditional Japanese tea ceremonies, sake-tasting, food and drinks, music and dance, arts and crafts, games for children, Pokemon and Sanrio merchandise, and a sale of authentic kimonos and other artistic items. A silent auction commences at 1 p.m.
Call 408.8741.4994.
Art group shows documentary film
The Saratoga Contemporary Artists invites interested members of the public to attend its May 17 meeting, which, instead of featuring the usual guest artist, features a PBS documentary video titled The Wilderness Palette: Nita Engle in Michigan.
Engle studied watercolor painting in England and the United States, works as an art director and illustrator and has had art appear in many major periodicals and art books. She is a longtime member of the American Watercolor Society and teaches workshops and seminars both in the United States and abroad.
The meeting is at 7 p.m. in the Saratoga Library, 13650 Saratoga Ave. Refreshments will be served. Saratoga Contemporary Artists is a community organization that promotes the arts and lets artists of different levels and styles socialize, network, review each others' works and occasionally paint together.
Call 408.866.1309 for more information.
Clay and bamboo featured in show
Jacqueline Butts, a studio potter and ceramics instructor for more than 30 years, is this month's featured artist at Aegis Gallery of Fine Art, at 14531 Big Basin Way in the Saratoga Village.
A resident of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Butts works in stoneware and porcelain, and says her pieces reflect her taste for simplicity, harmony and balance. She often combines bamboo, which she grows behind her home studio, with clay, to add an unusual Asian flavor to her works. She has also studied the Wafu School of Ikebana--the Japanese fine art of flower-arranging.
For more information, call 408.867.0171.
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