Sakura Festival

Join us for the annual Sakura Festival on April 17, 2025
1:00 p.m. Ceremony in the Japanese Garden (weather permitting, will move to the Student Center if inclement weather)

Koto and flute performance
Dignitary Speeches
Clark College Treble Ensemble performance
2:00 p.m. Butterfly release by Student Life at the Andersen Fountain

Butterflies hold significant symbolic meaning in Japanese culture, representing a variety of themes and ideas. Their imagery appears frequently in traditional Japanese art, literature, and aesthetics, embodying various aspects of life, nature, and the human experience.
2:00 p.m. Activities and Displays in Gaiser Student Center

Display tables include: a tea ceremony, Ikebana, Japanese Club, and kendo club
Cookies by MCI Bakery and tea
2:45 p.m. Performances in Gaiser Student Center

Japanese Club
Tradiational Japanese Dance “Fuji Musume” (Wisteria Maiden)
Clark College Child and Family children art share
Takohachi drum group
Hosted by Clark College with Vancouver Rotarians, and the City of Vancouver

The event is free and open to the public

For additional information please contact Michelle Golder at 360-992-2543

*If weather prohibits the opening ceremony from taking place outdoors, it will be held in the Gaiser Student Center.

Over 25 years ago, the City of Vancouver received a gift of friendship: 100 Shirofugen cherry trees. They were planted at Clark College, creating an enduring reminder of the bonds between our region and Japan. Over the years, those trees have grown and blossomed—as has that friendship, creating traditions like the establishment in 1995 of a sister-city relationship between Vancouver and Joyo, Japan, and our annual Sakura Festival, begun in 2006.

Learn and see more about the rich history of the Sakura Festival. https://www.clark.edu/about/arts-events/sakura/