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Save the date, July 20 from 3-9 p.m. for the return of Foster Botanical Garden's Midsummer Night's Gleam event! This year, the Garden's theme for their huge annual family-friendly evening event is "Tanabata Festival, so " let's play into it with a silkpunk/celestial theme! Get creative and reach for the stars...we'll be posting costume ideas in the comments section. More details coming soon!EVENT INFO:
Event Theme: Tanabata Festival (Japanese "Star Festival") It celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and Altair). According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Steampunk Theme: Silkpunk (Asian-inspired steampunk) and Celestial!
When: Saturday, July 20, 2024, 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (show up when you can or stay the whole time, it's up to you!) Group Photo around 6 p.m.
Cost: Admission is TBA on the official venue's website.
What: Children’s activities (painting, botanical games, bubbles, storytelling, and arts & crafts), cosplay, demos, and magical fun for all ages! Foster Botanical Garden will be turned into a magical wonderland with lights sparkling along the pathways weaving through the garden, for everyone to explore.
About the venue:
FOSTER BOTANICAL GARDEN
50 North Vineyard Boulevard,
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817
Foster Botanical Garden, measuring 13.5 acres, is the oldest botanical garden in Hawaii, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Foster Garden traces its beginning to 1853 when Queen Kalama leased a small area of land to William Hillebrand, a young German doctor. It is home to some of the oldest trees on the island and a world-class collection of orchids, palms, and significant plants, including the Cannonball Tree, the Corpse Flower and others.
WHAT IS SILKPUNK?
Coined by author Ken Liu in 2015 to describe a more Asia-centric Steampunk world, Silkpunk also dreams up technology of an alternate past, while focusing on art, philosophy, and materials of historical importance to the people of East Asia and the Pacific islands: bamboo, shells, coral, paper, silk, feathers, sinew, etc.
Silkpunk fashion: Lucky we live in Hawaii for this! To pull off Silkpunk fashion, just incorporate traditional or modern cultural styles of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, or the Philippines, a lot of which is easier to come by here in the Islands than in the Continental U.S. Key colors: Gold, bronze, and red - or whatever you make it!
Event photo by Tobias Schuermann.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Foster Botanical Garden, 198 N Vineyard Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96817-3937, United States,Honolulu, Hawaii
