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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.
Are you interested in learning flower arrangement ? You must have a skill of making flower arrangements. However you are tired of ordinary designs and want to learn a unique floral decorations. Well, some of the designs we teach at California Flower Art Academy are pretty unique and eye cathing. Above pictures show some of our unique designs such as Heart Shape Design featuring a bird, Flower Decorated Gift Wrapping Design and Bridal Hand-tied Corsage. California Flower Art Academy offers a wide range of classes, lessons, courses, seminars, training programs and workshops such as fresh flower arrangements, dried and silk flower designs, wedding floral decoration and funeral arrangements and table arrangement center piece programs etc etc. From entry level to professional level of students and European contemporary floral designs to Japanese traditional Ikebana arrangement, we can satisfy needs and requirements of each student. Our school is authorized by Flower Decorators Association which is one of the best established and most prestigious floral associations in Tokyo Japan. No matter what your goal and purpose in floral art is, for enhancing your cultures or for doing business, we can help you acquire practical skills of making floral decorations. You can start from Introductory Trial Budget Program for only $89. By joining this program, you will learn two kinds of floral designs spending about 2.5 hours. This session is good for you to evaluate our way of instructions and also the quality of our lesson. If you feel comfortable and satisfied with our lesson, you can roll over to Fresh Flower Arrangement Elementary Course. In this way of roll-over, all you have to pay is just the balance between Introductory Program and Elementary Course and all the units/credits you already earned from Introductory Program will be counted for completing Elementary Course. Many students follow this procedures. However if you like, you can of course join Elementary Course by skipping Introductory Program. We also offer Wedding Party Arrangement Basic Course as well as Wedding Ceremony Arrangement Course. According to your wish and needs, you can choose your most favorite program among a variety of courses. California Flower Art Academy has been serving the San Francisco Bay Area since its inception back in 1992 as a unique floral design school and flower arranging studio where you can get around with floral artist, flower learning students and also a well experienced flower arranging instructor. If you live in Greater San Francisco (including Daly City, Brisbane, South San Francisco, Burlingame, San Mateo, Millbrae, San Bruno, Foster City and Redwood City etc) or Silicon Valley (South and East Bay including Milpitas, Hayward, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Los Altos, San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Campbell etc0, we recommend you to join California Flower Art Academy which is authorized by Flower Decorators Association Tokyo Japan. We help you make a difference in floral art by offering European contemporary floral design training as well as Japanese Ikebana Arrangement classes. If you are interested in joining our school, please email to info@california-academy.com
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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