The 5th Copenhagen Sakura Festival

The date has been set for the next festival!
The 5th Copenhagen Sakura Festival will be held April 28-29 2012. We hope to see all of you there and that this time there will be many beautiful cherry trees blooming.

The Copenhagen Sakura Festival is now on facebook.
So everyone can take part in the festival, suggest improvements, suggest new activities, upload pictures or make comments, the festival is now on facebook. We will try and post any news or information on both sites. Any groups are welcome to also use it to arrange meetings, exchange information etc.

The 4th festival 2011.

The festival this year was held to collect money for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the amount collected from booths, fleamarket and nihonjinkai mochi group was 31,656.72 DKK. The amount will be transferred from the embassy to Japanese Red Cross. We sincerely hope this will be a small help in the afflicted areas and wish to thank everybody for your hard work.
With the help of everybody visiting the festival, the festival and foldning.dk (Danish Origami Organisation) has succeeded in folding 1000 cranes (senbazuru). These have been sent to Japan, General Affairs Division Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation 1-2 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan 730-0811 where they are displayed.

The Copenhagen Sakura Festival was for the fourth time in a row a great success

We wish to thank all participants, performers on stage (and grass) and tent-vendors for their hard work in making the festival a success.
We especially wish to thank the hard-working volunteers from Nihonjinkai, who spent their weekend helping the managmement of the stage run smoothly.
We also wish to thank all the photographers who showed great consideration and discretion when taking pictures of performers and private people.
The weather couldn't have been better and we estimate the festival had around 15.000 visitors.