{"id":63240,"date":"2016-04-30T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=63240"},"modified":"2016-04-19T20:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T00:22:50","slug":"sakura-matsuri-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=63240","title":{"rendered":"Sakura Matsuri 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 30 to Sunday, May 01  10am to 06pm<br \/>\nBrooklyn Botanic Garden<br \/>\n990 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11225<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sakura-matsuri.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[63240]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sakura-matsuri.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"77\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis year marks the 35th anniversary of Sakura Matsuri, BBG\u2019s annual cherry blossom festival. Known as New York City\u2019s rite of spring, the weekend offers over 60 events and performances that celebrate traditional and contemporary Japanese culture.<br \/>\nSome of the performances include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BBG Parasol Society Fashion Show: Featuring live music by the Hanami Ensemble<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Samurai Sword Soul: Action-packed drama by martial arts masters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Yuzu\u2019s Dream: An Urban Folk Odyssey: Straight outta Ny\u016bzen, J-pop phenomenon Yuzu is joined by choreographer and hip-hop artist Akim Funk Buddha and his Origami Dance Crew.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Stand-up Comic Rio Koike: Rio\u2019s Tokyo Magic Show comes to Brooklyn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Activities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Book Signings<\/li>\n<li> Art demonstrations and workshops<\/li>\n<li> Tea ceremony workshops<\/li>\n<li> Shogi and Go game play<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus there will be shops and tents selling cosplay items, books, accessories, vintage kimonos, wall scrolls and more!<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and a schedule of events visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbg.org\/visit\/event\/sakura_matsuri_2016_saturday_events\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbg.org<\/a><br \/>\n(Children under 12 enter free; senior and student discounts apply; members enter free)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 30 to Sunday, May 01 10am to 06pm Brooklyn Botanic Garden 990 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11225<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63243,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63240\/revisions\/63243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}