Plein Air & Autumn in the Garden Event

114 West Audubon Drive,Fresno CA 93720

23 October, 2021

Description

Join us for the Plein Air and "Autumn in the Garden" Festival Plein Air at Shinzen will be a special two-day event at this year’s “Autumn in the Garden” festival. Valley artists will create paintings and the public will be invited to view the artists at work on Saturday. During the Sunday festival, paintings will be judged and awarded including event sponsor recognition. Sunday’s events include judging of the art, paintings will be judged with awards presented and event sponsors recognized, food vendors, craft vendors, children's activities, docent led tours, with live entertainment throughout the day. First held in 1946, Toro Nagashi (literally, “flowing lanterns”) is a Japanese ceremony in which participants float glowing paper lanterns down a river to guide the spirit of the nonliving back to the afterlife after their visit during the Obon. Obon, a three-day Buddhist festival held to celebrate the beginning of the harvest in which the spirits of those who have passed are invited to join. Toro Nagashi is meant to be more of a joyful celebration than a time of mourning.