Enrichment Programs

A Beginner’s Guide to Shooting Better Photographs

If your camera’s auto mode is your best friend, you’re about to discover what you’ve been missing.

Ceramic Accessory Design

Wow friends and enhance your wardrobe with a personally designed ceramic accessory.

Cocktail Connections

The Women’s Group hosts a fun, informal evening of drinks and chat at CHOP Bar.

Coffee Connections

Expand your horizons and your social circle at this monthly gathering.

Cracking Elementary Japanese Verbs

With its seemingly complex structure and numerous particles, Japanese can appear baffling.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing
Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Basic Oils I
Learn to paint using a limited palette. Basic drawing required.

Basic Oils II
Explore the principles of color harmony with a color wheel. Drawing and Basic Oils I required.

Intermediate Oils I
Learn to create El Greco, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Turner and Impressionist effects using the color triangle. Drawing and Basic Oils required.

Intermediate Oils II
Learn the techniques of glazing, blending, scumbling, drybrush, broken color and alla prima.

Instructor: Carolyn Dong
Carolyn gives students the confidence to paint independently through a strong understanding of the principles of drawing and painting. Having studied with Fred Lipp in New York and Shinjiro Nakamura in Tokyo, Carolyn follows her Japanese mentor’s philosophy that artists should learn from one another. With a rich artistic background, she has worked in oils for many years.

• Wed
• Feb 6, 13, 20, 27 | Mar 6, 13 | Apr 10, 17, 24 | May 8, 15, 22, 29
• Total 13 classes
• 1–4pm
• Toko Shinoda & Yukiko Maki Classrooms
• Class Fee: ¥42,660
• Cancellation deadline: Jan 30
• Website: www.mguest.plus.com/cd/

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Drawing and Oil Painting

Learn how to draw using a plaster cast head, a common atelier tool.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Elementary Japanese

Study Japanese with a clear goal in 2019.

Exploring Japanese Tea Ceremony Traditions

Visit Jissoan, a private teahouse in Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward, for an exclusive insight into Japanese tea ceremony, or chanoyu, traditions with a tea master.

Flower Arranging: Champêtre Bouquet

This engaging green and white bouquet is reminiscent of sunny, verdant days and warm, moonlit nights, fragrant with the scent of white blossoms.

Flower Arranging: Easter Baskets

Celebrate this important holiday and spring’s colorful blooms with a basket arrangement of yellow and purple flowers and Easter eggs.

Gems and Jewelry: An Insider's View

Tour the wholesale jewelry area of Tokyo, where you can find everything from South Sea pearls to precious and semiprecious stones, beads, gold coins and more.

Home Solutions: Organizing Paperwork and Important Records

Organizing paper is a chore many people dread. It is easy to get overwhelmed with the piles and decision-making that is required to replace chaos with order.

Home Solutions: Simplifying and Organizing Your Wardrobe

Is your wardrobe filled to the brim with clothes you don’t want to wear?

Intermediate English

Would you like to understand and participate in more in-depth, interesting conversations with your English-speaking friends?

Intermediate English

Would you like to understand and participate in more in-depth, interesting conversations with your English-speaking friends?

Intermediate English

Would you like to understand and participate in more in-depth, interesting conversations with your English-speaking friends?

Intermediate English

Would you like to understand and participate in more in-depth, interesting conversations with your English-speaking friends?

Intermediate English

Would you like to understand and participate in more in-depth, interesting conversations with your English-speaking friends?

Intermediate English

Would you like to understand and participate in more in-depth, interesting conversations with your English-speaking friends?

Intermediate English

Would you like to understand and participate in more in-depth, interesting conversations with your English-speaking friends?

Intermediate English

Would you like to understand and participate in more in-depth, interesting conversations with your English-speaking friends?

Introduction to Japanese

Understand the basic features of Japanese and how they reflect Japanese culture during this fascinating overview of the language.

Irises and Sawara Time Slip

Just 90 minutes outside the bustling streets of Tokyo lies Sawara, the town that time forgot.

Japanese Garden Walks: Kanda River Gardens

Take in three beautiful gardens along Tokyo’s Kanda River, a manmade canal built by the Tokugawa shogunate.

Japanese Garden Walks: Kita Kamakura Zen Gardens

Visit three stunning Zen temples in Kita Kamakura during the plum blossom season.

Japanese Garden Walks: Shibamata Gardens

Lauded by a highly regarded American magazine, Tokyo’s Yamamoto-tei is a traditional Japanese house that features elements of Western architecture and a beautiful shoin-style garden (designed for admiring from within a building).

Japanese Garden Walks: Western and Japanese Beauty in Harmony

Kyu Furukawa Gardens seamlessly blends characteristics of Western and Japanese gardens.

Japanese Garden Walks: Yokohama Sankeien

Sankeien is a traditional Japanese strolling garden. It was designed by Tomitaro (Sankei) Hara, a wealthy, Meiji-era businessman in the silk trade.

Knitting: Cable

Fancy an Irish fisherman’s sweater with cables crisscrossing this way and that?

Knitting: Intermediate Techniques

Give your knitting skills a boost through this three-session course.

Knitting: Lace

A lace shawl is the perfect companion: easy to carry and ideal for wearing in a chilly room.

Language Connections

Mingle with friends and new acquaintances while practicing your language skills in a welcoming environment.

Naoshima: Island of Art

Adrift in the Seto Inland Sea, Naoshima Island offers an experience unlike any other in Japan.

Nearly New Sale

Shop from an array of bargains at this popular one-day sale.

No-Fuss Tea Ceremony

This introduction to Japanese tea ceremony skips the formalities and explains the tools, techniques and traditions of this Japanese art in an easygoing, relaxed setting.

Preserving Japanese Culture: Inside Buddhism

What does a reclining Buddha statue mean?

Preserving Japanese Culture: Kuhonbutsu Tour

Kuhonzan Yuizainenbustuin Joshin Temple, or Kuhonbutsu, is a historically important temple in western Tokyo.

Preserving Japanese Culture: The Significance of Color

Do you know the real color of Buddha’s head?

Salvation Army Charity Drive

The KonMari decluttering method states: part ways with whatever doesn’t make you happy.

Sketch Your Travel Memories

Learn a unique way to preserve travel memories or scenes from day-to-day life.

Sketch Your Travel Memories

Learn a unique way to preserve travel memories or scenes from day-to-day life.

Sketch Your Travel Memories

Learn a unique way to preserve travel memories or scenes from day-to-day life.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Arranging

Learn about this traditional Japanese art form and how to create beautiful ikebana floral arrangements for your home.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting

Japanese sumi-e is the traditional art of brush and ink painting.

Ukulele Aloha

Enjoy a morning of laid-back Hawaiian vibes while learning how to play and sing simple Hawaiian and popular tunes.

Vegesushi Workshop

Create your own vegetable sushi showpieces at this Instagram-friendly workshop.

Vegetarian Flavors of South India

Learn quick and easy ways to prepare unique and popular southern Indian dishes at home.

Vegetarian Flavors of Thailand

Thai food is a blend of contrasting flavors and cooking styles.

Wine, Wisteria and Outlet Shopping

If sakura are Japan’s most famous flowers, wisteria trees are its best-kept secret.