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If you are interested in learning flower arrangement and cannot spare time during weekdays, why not join Weekend One Day Seminar offered by California Flower Art Academy ? For people who are busy and can spare time only on weekend, Weekend One Day Seminar is not only very convenient but also very affordable. All you have to pay is only $150 including flower materials. By joining this program, you can learn several designs which are easy to make spending about 4 hours. This special training session is offered at our San Jose classroom (close to the city of Cupertino in Santa Clara County) and also at our Burlingame extension class (located in San Mateo County close to San Francisco Airport). Our unique way of hands on training of person to person instructions (close to semi-private lesson)
greatly help entry level of students easily and quickly acquire practical skills of floral arranging. If you live in Greater San Francisco (Bay Area and Peninsula including Daly City, Millbrae, Foster City) or Silicon Valley (South and Wast Bay including Milpitas, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Saratoga etc), we recommend you to join this special program. California Flower Art Academy is authorized by Flower Decorators Association (Tokyo Japan) and has been engaged in educating local people who would like to earn practical skills of flower arrangements no matter for what kind of puropse they want to learn for hobby or for business. If you are interested in this program and want to take a lesson, just email to info@california-academy.com We help you make a difference in floral art.
Among so many kinds of floral designs, table arrangement is considered one of the recommendable designs for entry level of students to start with. If you are interested in learning flower arranging, it may be a good idea to start from center piece decoration by joining a one day special program called “Table Arrangement Center Piece Decoration Program”. In order to support entry level of students, California Flower Art Academy prepares several kinds of this sort of designs so that beginner students can easily learn and earn practical skills of flower arrangements. This special session lasts about 4.5 hours and is offered at our San Jose main class room (nearby the intersection of Freeway 85 and De Anza Blvd) and also at our Burlingame extension class (close to San Francisco Airport). By joining this session, you will acquire skills of making basic skills of basic center piece decoration which can be used not only for wedding parties but also for various kinds of events such as birthday party, anniversary, Christmas, Thanksgiving or Valentines Day whatsoever. Some people may make the best use of skills earned from this session for making wedding decoration for their own wedding parties whereby they will minimize the cost of wedding floral decoration. It is not always necessary to master an entire range of wedding arrangement for you to implement DIY (Do It Yourself) plan on your own wedding party. You just make part of the entire wedding decoration by yourself and have a better experienced professional floral decorator take care of the rest of decorations whereby you can save money on your wedding decoration. This is one of ideas for you to save cost for your wedding. Some people who enroll in California Flower Art Academy actually implement above mentioned plan. Some people offer wedding floral decoration services to their family member(s), relatives, friends and also eventually to the third parties on their wedding decorations. If they seriously think about working as a wedding floral decorator, they will enroll in Wedding Floral Decoration Course offered by our school. Anyway learning table arrangements can be a good start for you to acquire skills of floral designs no matter whether you learn for business or hobby purpose. Lessons are offered not only on weekend but also on weekend to support busy people like you. Classes are offered at San Jose and Burlingame classroom. If you live in Greater San Francisco (Peninsula including Daly City, Burlingame, Millbrae, San Mateo, South San Francisco, San Bruno, Redwood City or Foster City) OR in Silicon Valley (East Bay and Santa Clara County in South Bay including San Jose, Mountain View, Milpitas, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Morgan Hill etc) we recommend you to join California Flower Art Academy which educates you with hands on training of person to person instructions. We adopt small size class having maximum number of students only six (60 per class which greatly helps entry level of students easily acquire practical skills of flower arranging. If you are interested in our program, please email to info@california-academy.com and visit our website http://www.california-academy.com We help you make a difference in floral art.
If you are interested in learning Japanese traditional floral arrangement called “Ikebana”, we help you acquire practical skills by way of hands on training. The way Ikebana is arranged is somewhat different from that of regular kind of flower arrangements. Ikebana uses what is called “Kenzan” which is also known as needlepoint holder made of metal which is heavy enough to hold flowers and flower stems. This needlepoint holder has uncountable number of needles on the surface. When floral designers arranges flowers, they insert flower stems onto those needles. This is totally different from a regular kind of flower arrangement which uses OASIS made from chemical stuff and looks like sponge. The weight of OASIS is very light unlike Kenzan and this stuff is disposable again unlike Kenzan (needlepoint holder).
Since OASIS is much easier to use than KENZAN, it takes less time to do regular flower arrangement. PLUS Ikebana requires very precise way of decoration which involves more time and energy. In this sense Ikebana is not recommended for the situation where they need so many designs/decorations at the same time. Regular flower arrangement is much more recommended in this kind of situation. Further if the decoration is so big like the one displayed in the entrance hall of hotels etc., Ikebana is said not to fit such decoration.
In terms of above mentioned reasons, Ikebana is seldom used for wedding or funeral decoration not only in the USA but also even in Japan. On top of that, Ikebana related fees are so expensive such as tuitions, examination fee and certificate fee etc etc. Further Ikebana used to be one of typical Japanese manners which should be mastered by young ladies who are not yet married. Parents usually provided daughters with trainings of Ikebana arrangement in the hope that they can make interior floral decorations after getting married. When they take lesson of Ikebana, they were usually required to learn in a strict manner and to strictly follow directions from instructors who were usually almighty against their students. Some people say this used to be very fuedalistic in a sense (This used to be typical relationships between a teacher and a student not only regarding Ikebana but also any kind of educations. Nowadays it is very changed because everything has been affected by American culture.
At the moment, Ikebana is not very popular in Japan especially among young ladies who prefer regular kind of 
flower arrangement which is European or American style of floral decorations. The reason behind this situation is seemingly because they do not like “fuedalistic relationship between teachers and students, they prefer less expensive (affordable ) floral designing (tuition and certificate fee) , they like easy way of arrangement AND they would like to learn floral decorations which can be easily used for doing business such as wedding decorations as well as daily interior decorations.
Regarding the skills and techniques, people who were well trained in Ikebana arrangement can very quickly catch up with skills of regular flower arrangements even though there are several differences as stated in the above. The chief instructor of California Flower Art Academy got a long term training of Ikebana and she has an official certification of Ikebana Instructor authorized in Japan. Plus she has a license of the first class floral decorator also certified in Japan. Therefore we can offer lessons not only European style of floral designs but also Japanese Ikebana arrangements as well.
If you are interested in learning Ikebana, we help you earn practical skills by way of hands on training of person to person instructions at affordable prices. At the moment, we offer follwoing Ikebana courses:
A. Ikebana Arrangement Elementary Course (7 designs: one design: 60-90 minutes)………$210
B. Ikebana Arrangement Intermediate Course (7 designs: one design: 60-90 minutes)…….$245
For further information, please email to info@california-academy.com We help you make a difference in floral art.
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