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SPRING 2021 A LETTER FROM OUR 理事長からの PRESIDENT メッセージ An opportunity was afforded to WBG and this region Japanese Gardens were often built with tall walls or when the stars aligned exactly two years ago! We found hedges so that when you entered the you were out we were receiving a donation of 24 trees, the whisked away into a place of peace and tranquility, away Graeser family stepped up with a $500,000 match grant from the worries of the world. A peaceful, meditative to get the going, and internationally garden space can teach us much about ourselves and renowned traditional Japanese designer, our world. Shiro Nakane, visited Louisville and agreed to design a two-acre, authentic Japanese Garden for us. With the building of this authentic Japanese Garden we will learn many 花鳥風月 From the beginning, this project has been about people, new things, both during the process “Kachou Fuugetsu” serendipity, our community, and unexpected alignments. and after it is completed. We will –Japanese Proverb Mr. Nakane first visited in September 2019, three weeks enjoy peaceful, quiet times in the before the opening of the Waterfront Botanical Gardens. garden, social times, moments of Literally translates to Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon. He could sense the excitement for what was happening learning and inspiration, and moments Meaning experience on this 23-acre site in Louisville, KY. He made his of deep emotion as we witness the the beauties of nature, commitment on the spot. impact of this beautiful place on our and in doing so, learn children and grandchildren who visit about yourself. Since that time, he visited again in March 2020. We have our garden. had multiple Zoom calls with his team and have shared hundreds of emails. Working with the Nakane team has Once we raise the funds to get started with this elegant been a wonderful learning experience, as have all our addition to the landscape of our region, we will witness efforts, struggles, and successes associated with this the building of a cultural center in Louisville that will project. I have learned about Japanese culture, business remain long after we are gone. Join us in learning more practices, communication, and the importance about while it is being built by of nature in our lives. Japanese craftsmen. Enjoy a walk over the arched bridge, a visit to the amazing bonsai garden, and an authentic ceremony in the Tea House. I believe you and I will be changed forever.

Kasey

Kasey Maier, President

LEFT TO RIGHT: KENJI TASHIRO, YUKIHIRO NAKANE, KURT GRAESER, KASEY MAIER, DAVID GRAESER, SHIRO NAKANE

OUR VISION Planting seeds and growing minds for more sustainable cities.

STAFF Shalonda Brown Wanda Peck Kat Rivers Nejma Piagentini HR Administrator Youth Education Adult Education Vice-Chair Kasey Maier Specialist Coordinator Environmental President Elizabeth Chandler Scientist Development Duncan Cherry Brett Shepherd Jeff Cummins Manager Office Manager Director of Capital David Grey Director of Finance Campaigns Secretary Allison Whitehouse Chelsea Hicks and Operations Senior Data Scientist Adult Engagement Horticulturist of Global Production, Jamie Burghardt, Manager OFFICERS OF Brown-Forman Director of Dan Cash THE BOARD and Andrew Hagerty Facilities Coordinator Susan Howard, Education Lead Horticulturist Jon Salomon Treasurer Ryeshia Reves Chair Lesley Kinney Amy Defigueiredo Special Events Assistant Director of Tax Partner, Tachau Services, Dean Dorton Director of Staff Accountant Manager Meek PLC Development Allen Ford, PLLC 中根史郎氏 INTRODUCING SHIRO NAKANE の紹介 Shiro Nakane was born in in 1950. He received his THE FORMATIVE BEAUTY OF ISHIGUMI first lessons in traditional Japanese as a (ROCK ARRANGEMENT): very young child from his father, noted Japanese Garden …the apparent admiration and esteem enjoyed by the Japanese designer, Kinsaku Nakane, the former President of the Garden throughout the world is presumably attributable to the University of Arts. recognition of its universal artistic merits, which transcend all racial, religious, and cultural differences. Mr. Nakane graduated from the Gakushuin University in Philosophy in 1975, and joined the staff of the Nakane Upon examining the design features and botanical cultivation Garden Research Institute that same year. of Japanese Gardens, one also notices the astonishing extent to which these have conformed to changes in the environment. Research into the classic aspects of Japanese Gardens could His career started as a first class supervision engineer conceivably shed light on the urgent challenge to modern society for landscape construction. In 1985, he was presented by environmental considerations and attempts to promoted to Executive Vice President of the Nakane coexist with nature. Corporation, and became President in 1995, following in the footsteps of his father. Japanese Gardens, with their history of 1,400 years and the traditional design features that have persisted in this sphere, 1995 Director, International Federation of Landscape Architects of are of profound historical interest as regards investigation of the 2000 Director, Japanese Institute of Japanese Garden Japanese classics. In addition, they provide training with respect 2012 Councilor of the Japan Garden Society to the techniques of natural and subtle balancing or harmonization in the formative arts and elucidate the challenges of ensuring harmony with nature and developing methods for their control and Excerpts from “Structure in the Japanese Garden,” application. These important aspects of the art, which transcend a The Antioch Review, Volume 64, Number 2, 2006 mere appreciation of the garden, appear to contain answers to the by Shiro Nakane: vital questions at hand. Building a garden is like painting on a three-dimensional canvas. Rocks are one of the most important elements. They are “Reproduction of natural environment” and “coexistence with arranged according to the laws of perspective, in well-balanced nature” are not so difficult. The traditional techniques and attitude compositions based upon the triangle. But the master Japanese of the Japanese were originally based on coexisting with nature, learns his craft through natural observation, not saving resources, and decreasing waste materials. theoretical study. As in a painting, literalism and abstraction play a part in the Japanese Garden; we judge each in terms of both I hope the essential beauty of the Japanese Garden will give composition and technique. you an enlightened appreciation of the Japanese Garden that will enable you to incorporate its elements into your own garden designs, creating something like the best of the Japanese Gardens, something that springs from your unique sense of the natural world.

COVER FLORA Front: Japanese Apricot () Back: Japanese Iris (Iris ensata)

BOARD OF Greg Buccola Margaret (Peggy) Grant Caroline Lussky Kenisha Thompson Managing Principal, Retired, Stites & Pharmaceutical Rep, Gray Matter Strategy DIRECTORS KPFF Consulting Harbison PLLC Ascend Therapeutics Consulting Engineers Margaret Bell Dominic Gratto Scott Neff Brian Voelker Retired, Former Karen Dahlem Senior Director Co-CEO, The Glenview Director, Care Marketing, Managing Director, Fort President, Dahlem of Construction, Trust Company Humana Washington Investment Consulting CVS Health Advisors Merry-Kay Poe Bill Wade Kevin Fennell Will Greene President, Unbridled National Program Greg Braun Senior Director of Owner, Vanguard Films LLC Director, BMW Owner & Founder, Maid Design, 21c Hotels Cleaning Solutions of CCA Foundation Chase Sanders in Louisville Louisville & Lexington Matt Gardiner Payment Integrity Gerry-Lynn Gordon Brown Owner & President, Bob Hill Analyst, The Rawlings Wichmann, MD Retired, Former Boone Gardiner Retired, Owner, Hidden Group Medical Director President & CEO, Home Landscape and Farm Hill Nursery of Substance Use, Valerie J. Smith of the Innocents Louisville Veterans Tourism Consultant, Affairs Medical Center Photographer WATERFRONT | 2021/03/03

R I V E R R O A D Updated Master Plan 最新のマスタープラン

CONSERVATORY PALISADES GARDEN

THE BEARGRASS HILLSIDE CREEK CHILDREN’S THEATER GARDEN

THE WELCOME WOODLANDS JAPANESE GARDEN WATER THE MEADOW GARDEN GARDEN BEARGRASS LAWN

OVERLOOK E U N E V A T R O F K N A R F THE OVAL

FORMAL GARDEN GRAESER FAMILY VISITOR EDUCATION CENTER SENSORY CENTER GARDEN MARY LEE DUTHIE GARDEN THE TRELLIS HELEN HARRIGAN GARDEN

ENTRY GARDEN

ELLEN T. LESLIE BOTANICAL CLASSROOMS

EVERGREEN TAPESTRY

INTERSTATE 71 The original master plan, released in 2014 by across Frankfort Avenue. The walkway is ADA- Perkins+Will, has recently been updated. accessible, traverses a water feature in the northwest corner of the property and through the curving paths The Visitor Center remains on the western side of a hillside Welcome Garden. The path meets the of the site and still includes a green roof atop vehicle drop-off area on the south side of the Visitor an entrance lobby, exhibit space, cafe, gift shop, N Center just outside the main lobby and utilizes the 0 25 50 100 200 and administrative office. The pedestrian walkway current driveway entrance from Frankfort Avenue. connects the future parking lot farther west and WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDEN | 2021/03/03

R I V E R R O A D

CONSERVATORY PALISADES GARDEN

THE BEARGRASS HILLSIDE ARBORETUM CREEK CHILDREN’S THEATER GARDEN

THE WELCOME WOODLANDS JAPANESE GARDEN WATER THE MEADOW GARDEN GARDEN BEARGRASS LAWN

OVERLOOK E U N E V A T R O F K N A R F THE OVAL

FORMAL GARDEN GRAESER FAMILY VISITOR EDUCATION CENTER SENSORY CENTER GARDEN MARY LEE DUTHIE GARDEN THE TRELLIS HELEN HARRIGAN GARDEN

ENTRY GARDEN

ELLEN T. LESLIE BOTANICAL CLASSROOMS

EVERGREEN TAPESTRY

INTERSTATE 71 The glass Conservatory (Phase III) comprises 30,000 Additions to the updated 2021 Master Plan include a square feet of multilevel horticultural display beds. hillside amphitheater next to the Children’s Garden, The roof rises some 75 feet, allowing for exotic a small arboretum and Palisades Garden adjacent to tropical trees and palms to bring distant the Conservatory and an outdoor event lawn called ecosystems to the region. In addition, a quarantine the Beargrass Lawn. This area is on the east side of

N lab with delivery dock will permit for plant exchanges the Japanese Garden and just above Beargrass Creek 0 25 50 100 200 and the lower level will house offices, a workshop on the property’s east side. and conference room.

For more information about the Master Plan, please visit: waterfrontgardens.org/master-plan/ 日本庭園のコンセプト Japanese Garden Concept Anticipating Living この地に根づく 日本庭園を of the Japanese Garden 目指して

Jamie Burghardt Director of Horticulture BY JAMIE BURGHARDT & Education

The first year of discussion on the Japanese Garden THE MEETING OF TWO WORLDS focused heavily on the layout, engineering, con- tractual, and fabrication questions on our ambitious Over 150 years ago, Westerners were so enamored project. With a general schematic design of the with the reopening of Japan to international trade, garden in hand, we have an idea of where groves that anything with a hint of being Japanese was of trees, hedges, woodland screens, bonsai-shaped copied or desired. Back then, artists stylized what trees, or large-scale pruned shrubs are planned. they thought was Japanese and incorporated it into We’ve not finalized the list of plant species for use compositions. The effect was an odd, inauthentic across the Japanese Garden yet – and this creates a westernized idea of what and culture mental whirlwind of questions about the possibilities. should resemble, or what was needed to make it It creates an anticipation that is nearly as anxious, seem Japanese. energetic, and frantic as a garden grasshopper. The same comment could be true for many casual My fellow grasshoppers, it’s time for that very same designs of Japanese Gardens across America that feeling of anticipation and the wonder of possibili- were made in the 20th century. Is the design formula ties that will soon materialize in a final planting plan simply planting a dwarf pine with a circular ring of of our Japanese Garden. There are differences in gravel mulch and a stone lantern as an accent what views and ideas when talking gardens and experi- makes a Japanese Garden? No, but it certainly is a encing nature between the East and West. Westernized, simplified, and incomplete rendition. What makes us American and designers magically drops all its leaves. Examples of Japan’s comfortable – such as experimenting with a larger micro-seasons include the brief window in March number of different , widespread use of floral when sparrows start to nest, when hawks learn to fly color in annuals, perennials and shrubs, and a sea- in mid-July, when rice ripens in early September, and sonal infatuation that’s foremost on spring and early when the deer shed antlers in late December. It is a summer – would look odd in a landscape artfully culture that is in tune with the happen ings of the natu- created with a Japanese hand. The Japanese ral world around it. Something of which a nature-blind Garden places plant form over plant flower, visual urban society can only yearn to gain an awareness. interest enduring across the entire year, and plant vi- sual variety is obtained with fewer plant species, but Every visitor will be challenged to stop and absorb with more training and shaping of those plants. It’s nature and its breathtaking calendar that is immune about creating an ambiance, not a display of huge to the rhythms of human activities. This is our biodiversity. It’s a garden that is a perfected natural Japanese Garden. style. There is symbolism, but also much function. WEIGHING THE OPTIONS, 72 MICRO-SEASONS PRIORITIZING POSSIBILITIES

Our awareness and perspective on the seasons By midsummer 2020, the Nakane design team is different than those embraced by the Japanese. presented a schematic design outlining vegetation Americans attest there are four seasons, and many ingredients of the Japanese Garden. All around the people here are blissfully unaware of the natural authentic wooden entrance , houses and happenings that announce the arrival or departure bridges formed the initial drawn tapestry of symbols of those four seasons. The Japanese have 72 for groundcovers, trees, and shrubs. There are seven micro-seasons which further dissect the year into key horticultural components that require discussion 24 seasons, each with three mini-seasons that occur to complete the design and create a final plant list. within a window of about four or five days. Such a detailed calendar of seasons makes you stop to The only plant feature specifically named is an ex- observe, appreciate, and experience nature. tensive hedgerow of Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) encircling the entire two-acre garden. Just inside Perhaps the easiest example of a micro-season this hedge is a screening backdrop dubbed the “sur- would be to mention when our native flowering rounding wood.” From inside the Japanese Garden, dogwoods are in bloom. It seems everyone is aware these background “woods” enclose the space in all of this seasonal occurrence and is so regretful it directions to form a natural enclosure. There is one doesn’t coincide with Derby weekend. Or, the date in lone grove next to the authentic . November when the neighborhood ginkgo tree The sound of bamboo culms and leaves in the... Anticipating Living この地に根づく Landscapes 日本庭園を of the Japanese Garden-cont. 目指して - 続き

...wind is a key experience to this garden area. There after installation. What role can Southeastern native is a general “colony of aquatic plants” at the eastern plants play in a reinvention of a modern Japanese lake edge by a pebble beach. Adjacent to the beach Garden? Is there an appropriate application for east- is an autumn grassland that announces fall’s arrival ern redbud (Cercis canadensis), witch alder (Fother- with golden leaf blades and pale seed heads. gilla spp.), oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifo- Bonsai-shaped pine trees on two islands in the lake lia), or American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)? will be a focal feature year round. In similar manner, a massed planting of dome-shaped shrubs will evoke Evergreen trees provide a strong foundation for the look of distant hills or forests. Perhaps the most fall and winter interest and year-round structure. familiar horticultural feature to the average American Will specimen Japanese white (Pinus parviflora), would be the cherry tree promenade, which will be a Swiss stone (P. cembra), and lacebark (P. bungeana) highlight in March and April. be trained to look like aged, windswept spec- imens near the walkways? Should Oriental spruce As an American botanical garden, we strive to max- (Picea orientalis), Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis imize biodiversity while making sustainable plant obtusa), Japanese zelkova (Zelkova serrata), kou- selections. For Japanese authenticity, we must utilize sa dogwood (Cornus kousa), and Japanese cedar plant materials that are conducive to the contrived ( japonica) provide the visual structure nature, symbolism, and functionality of the Japanese to the surrounding woods? In a traditional Japanese design and composition. We need a local or regional Garden, evergreen (Rhododendron spp.) or source for plants as well as plant sizes that will bring boxwood (Buxus spp.) respond well to tight shearing some scale and substance to the Japanese Garden into dome-like mounds because of their small leaves

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Tea House – # 1 0 Summer House – Yokaze #12 • The North #2 The chashitsu is made of wood, The stream will flow under the It will be smaller but more ornate. and designed to harmonize with summer house, so guests can sit in $350,000 the surrounding garden. it with their feet in the stream. $1,000,000 $250,000 Waterfall – Taki #4 $250,000 Pond – Shinji-ike #7 Japanese Entrance Gates – Waterfalls are a great source The pond is fed by the waterfall of beauty in Japanese Gardens, and streams and will be stocked • The South (Main) Gate #1 contributing to the expression with . It will be the main entrance of nature and the soundscape. $500,000 and will include a ticket booth. $500,000 Arched Bridge – Soribashi #18 Stream – Yarimizu #5,6 The arched bridge, with its The stream symbolizes eternal • The West Gate #3 distinctive red-orange color, is renewal and the flow of time. It is an imposing ornate gate, but probably the most representative $600,000 l a r g e e n o u g h f o r s e r v i c e v e h i c l e s .feature of a Japanese Garden. $400,000 $250,000

DOUBLE YOUR DONATION! 2x Every dollar you give to support the Japanese Garden will be matched up to $500,000 by the Graeser family and ability to rejuvenate from bare twigs. However, (Prunus ‘Okame’), Higan (P. subhirtella), and Yoshino neither are ideal long-term landscape choices for cherry (P. x yedoensis) blossoms or be preceded by our area. Does this mean a shift to Japanese holly the blooms of Japanese apricot (P. mume)? As for (Ilex crenata) or glossy abelia (Abelia x grandiflora) groundcovers, can turfgrass be diminished in order as substitutes? Instead of invasive Japanese sil- to grow sweeps of juniper (Juniperus horizontalis), vergrass (Miscanthus sinensis), native switchgrass short-stature , Allegheny spurge (Pachysandra (Panicum virgatum) will provide a similar and more procumbens), dwarf mondo grass (Ophiopogon responsible fall display. japonicus), lilyturf (Liriope muscari), or Russian arborvitae (Microbiota decussata) in any areas? A tall bamboo (Phyllostachys sp.) specimen must be cold hardy to -10 F, but also requires a concrete Have a little more patience, grasshoppers. The barrier to prevent unwanted rhizome spread. Will future is definitely filled with horticultural anticipation deciduous magnolias find a place to complement as we embark on finalizing the planting list for the numerous cherry trees? The star magnolia (Mag- Japanese Garden. Be joyful and relieved that in nolia stellata) is actually indigenous to Japan. Will Japan, us grasshoppers are symbols of good luck. its white flowers be accompanied by the Okame

ウォーターフロント植物園 日本庭園スポンサーシップ Zig-Zag Bridge – Yatsuhashi #19 – #11 Pebble beach #9 Zig-Zag bridges encourage those Tea Gardens call to mind a stroll The pebble beach consists of who cross it to slow down, watch through the forest path and smooth, dark stones representing their step, and take in the present. transport you to a quiet place the foam of an ocean in stark $100,000 where your everyday concerns are contrast to the greenery forgotten for a moment. surrounding it. Dry Landscape Garden – $50,000 $25,000 Karesansui #13 Dry landscape gardens represent Island in the Pond or Lake (2) Stone Bridge (2) – water surfaces and wave motions • K o j i m a #8 Tsuru and Kame Ishibashi #20 through sand patterns. (the crane and tortoise) When taking a meditative stroll $100,000 $50,000 through the garden, the bridge prompts us to shed worldly Cherry Tree Promenade – • Autumn Grassland – Aki concerns and be fully present Sakura #15 No Sogen #16 in the beautiful garden. The Japanese Cherry Tree $50,000 $25,000 represents the fleeting nature Grasses continue to flourish of existence and the need to live throughout multiple seasons in the present. once flowers are long gone, $100,000 evoking a hint of sadness at the passing of the year. Japanese Garden 日本庭園 想いをめぐらす A Place for Reflection ところ

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learn more about the Japanese Garden here: waterfrontgardens.org 茶室–デザイン・ WBG Japanese Tea House コンセプト Design Concept

BY TAKASHI KOMURATANI, TAIKO CONSTRUCTION INC.

The WBG Japanese Tea House will be designed The Chashitsu (Tea room) may seem rather small at using traditional architectural methods and only four and a half mats (approx. 8 square techniques, so as to introduce the Japanese tea meters), but this is actually the regular size of a – one of the most prestigious cultural ceremony room, which allows the host and guests to assets of Japan. The design will integrate the four interact at just the right distance. When the doors to principles known to encapsulate the basic spirit the seating area are open, the ceremony itself can be of the ceremony: wa (harmony), kei (respect), viewed by more visitors, and this room can also be sei (purity) and jaku (tranquility), and allow it used as a space for tea-ceremony classes. to harmonize with the beauty of the adjacent Japanese Garden and the surrounding amazing To enter this room, it is necessary to stoop a little in natural features of Louisville. order to walk through the small entrance called the Nigiji-guchi. Once you look through the door, you will THE CHASHITSU (TEA ROOM) AND NIJIRI-GUCHI feel like you are venturing into another world, and (ENTRANCE) will likely come to appreciate the beauty of such a The basic concept of Japanese Tea Houses is to small space. This is the way of presenting the basic allow anyone, from any walk of life, to enjoy the best concept of the tea ceremony, which is that all who the tea ceremony has to offer. Therefore, the WBG enter do so at the same level and are equal no matter Tea House will be designed to not only introduce who they are, a warrior, a country’s ruler, or one kind of Japanese culture, but also to share the an ordinary person. principles and ideals of this ceremonial ritual in a comfortable and pleasant space created through a careful selection of materials and design.

Bonsai at the Gardens 盆栽

BY ANDREW HAGERTY 茶室–デザイン・ コンセプト

THE RYUREI-SEKI (SEATING AREA) AND DECK The Ryurei-seki, or seating area, is designed to be very spacious with a large window placed on the north side. This open area receives a good amount of sunlight, and allows visitors to view the panorama of the Japanese Garden, while joining either a casual gathering or a formal tea ceremony party. THE (TEA PREPARATION AREA) The area features a unity of design, for example, the The preparation area in the Tea room is situated with size of the windows and the height the of ceilings, as the greatest consideration given to the movements well as a great amount of beautiful Japanese timber of the host. This will allow guests and the host to (hinoki cypress and sugi cedar), to create a warm engage in unspoken communication with each other. atmosphere with a touch of dignity and grace. The floor of the seating area is tiled with only the slightest THE KATANAKAKE (SWORD RACK) gaps at the entrances to make it wheelchair friendly. Samurai warriors were required to leave their swords Close your eyes and imagine you are sitting in this on a rack before entering a Tea room to show they area, looking out the window. You will be viewing have no hostile intent. As swords were supposed to an amazing Japanese Garden that highlights many be more important than their very lives, this was one seasonal features, such as lush foliage and flowers more way to emphasize that everyone is equal when reflected on the surface of the water, while receiving the tea ceremony is practiced. We, of course, do not the warmth of the sun that will make you feel like you carry swords in the present day, but a Katanakake are part of the natural beauty. I hope this will be the will be placed in this Tea House as a symbol of the perfect place for you to relax and find inner peace trust between the host and guests. and quiet.

It is humbling to see a masterfully Bonsai reveres nature by We look forward to building a crafted bonsai tree. You sense carefully cultivating it from home for the trees gifted to the the years of patience, care, modest beginnings into Gardens. It will not only be a place and devotion that have gone transgenerational symbols of to share his story of decades of into forming its artful design. peace and perseverance. This dedication and care to future You see the unique story of the mindset is put into practice at generations, but a place to come tree’s journey through time and Waterfront Botanical Gardens and appreciate all that is a part the creator’s reverence toward as we transform a landfill to a of the amazing art of bonsai. nature reflected in each twist of landmark. We plan to further the trunk and bend of a branch. embrace the lessons bonsai share The memories accumulated by building a bonsai display inside inside the small tree’s form are the future Japanese Garden. shown through their distinct Thanks to the generous donation characteristics and shared from Tom McCurry’s personal throughout generations. collection, we have 24 beautiful bonsai trees to exhibit already. Andrew Hagerty Lead Horticulturist WELCOME NEW STAFF 新スタッフの紹介

Shalonda Brown Lesley Kinney Ryeshia Reves Kat Rivers Brett Shepherd Human Resources Director of Development Special Events Manager Adult Education Director of Capital Administrator Coordinator Campaigns-Japanese Garden

WELCOME NEW BOARD MEMBERS 新理事の紹介

Gerry-Lynn Chase Sanders Kevin Fennell Wichmann, MD Payment Integrity Analyst, Senior Director of Design, Medical Director The Rawlings Group 21c Hotels of Substance Use, Louisville Veterans Affairs Medical Center

A CULTURAL EXPERIENCE FOR OUR YOUTH Numerous studies have revealed the abundant How do we as Louisvillians encourage benefits of exposing young children to multicultural awareness and appreciation in customary traditions of cultures other than our kids? Certainly, there are many ways to their own. Incorporating globally-diverse introduce and explore diversity within our ideas into instruction has proven to encourage homes, such as listening to world music, viewing acceptance, foster inclusion, and reduce foreign language films, or experimenting with bullying in classrooms across the United States. international recipes. But beyond our front The overall result of a culturally rich education doors, more immersive experiences await amidst is not just a more empathic, less prejudiced our city’s vast array of cultural attractions and student, but an entire group of learners historical institutions. Waterfront Botanical Wanda Peck from different backgrounds embracing Gardens is happy to further expand upon Youth Education Specialist their differences and working together to the opportunities to educate local learners in achieve success. our exponentially diverse world through the upcoming addition of our Japanese Garden. Beyond serving our mission of educating and CONSTRUCTION UPDATE 建設状況

January 2021 April 2021

COVID has not stopped us from (sponsored by the The building was designed by EOP continuing to build. Etscorn Foundation), a smart Architects, a local firm, and built by classroom, courtyard, and horticulture Whittenberg Construction with site As many of you know, we received workshop. The concrete floors, glass work by T & C Contracting. Join us over $5 million from the late Ellen interior doors, garage doors opening this summer for the ribbon cutting T. Leslie. As a result, we broke ground to the plaza, and tall ceilings make it a for the newest feature of your last fall on the Ellen T. Leslie Botanical great space for both youth and adult Waterfront Botanical Gardens. Classrooms. This winter has been programs, as well as school field trips. good for construction, so the project The placement of the 6,000 square- is ahead of schedule. foot building helps cut down on the highway noise from I-71 and provides Keep an eye on our website The new building includes a shared great visibility for the Gardens and social media for more workspace for four staff, a storage to passersby. updates on construction: area for furniture, a teaching waterfrontgardens.org/about/ construction-updates/

子供たちの文化体験 enhancing the appreciation of nature, WBG is excited to utilize the planned elements of this upcoming project (including a traditional Tea House and an impressive collection of bonsai) to connect students to the rich . It is our hope, that though cross-curricular links in our field trips and family programs, Southern Indiana and Louisville children will not only come to understand the biological workings of our environment, but also learn to celebrate another country’s unique ancestry and the importance of plants in their culture. Through these lessons in awareness, we can create a future community of prepared, compassionate citizens in our city!

For more camp Registrations for all camp information contact: opportunities is available WPeck@ on our website: waterfrontgardens.org waterfrontgardens.org NEW AUDIO GUIDE 新しい AT THE GARDENS オーディオガイド We’ve been using our new audio guide interpretive system since early March in the Gardens. Purple signs are moved about to create optional audio tour stops for visitors who then use their personal cell phones to hear a recording about a garden feature, plant or some history. We’ve created a 5-minute stop for you readers to try out now with your cell phone. Which numbers are considered lucky or unlucky in Japan?

To find out, use our audio guide to: 1. Call (502) 373-2979 2. Enter tour stop 787 followed by the # sign 3. Listen, learn and enjoy! イベント EVENTS

Gardens Aglimmer

Girl Scout Garden Days

DIY Youth Workshop

Second Sundays Family Program

Gardens Aglimmer

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...the apparent admiration and esteem“ enjoyed by the Japanese Garden throughout the world is presumably attributable to the recognition of its universal artistic merits, which transcend all racial, religious, and cultural differences. Shiro Nakane ”