First Origami Tutorial Video on YouTube
Origami Honeyeater Tutorial Video
Oh, I’m very excited to make my first video by myself!!
Please check my video on YouTube, thanks.
You can watch my Online Origami Workshop
Fold with Midori!!
My origami workshop video from the Japanaroo Opening Night is now available to everyone!
The simple bird and Ninja star are traditional origami but I created the variations with my own ideas.
Eastern Spinebill is the bird on the Australian $5 note.
There are more than 180 species of Honey Eaters in the world and 80 of them live in Australia. Eastern Spinebill is one of them.
Do you know the bird on the $5 note flaps its wings if you tilt the note back and forth?
Huge success of Online Origami Workshop
Big thanks to all the participants!
Amazing!!
We had about 150 participants on Zoom for my origami workshop and the Japanaroo Opening Night. There were 6 pages! (25 people per page. Some people share the same screen!)
Big thanks to all the participants!!
#Japanaroo2021 #japanaroo
There were amazing people who worked very hard to make this event successful. Thank you to all who were behind the scenes and did amazing jobs. Special thanks to Consul-General Masahiko Kiya who kindly attended my origami workshop and Jessica Scott who edited my origami workshop.
Japanaroo Opening Evening was powered by Consul-General Kiya, Consulate-General of Japan in Sydney, JETAA NSW, Doq Pty Ltd, AJYD, J Culture Sydney & Midori Furze Fine Art & Design
Free Online Origami Workshop at Japanaroo Opening Night
Join Midori for the free origami workshop
“Japanaroo” Opening Night will be a free virtual event on Friday 20th August from 5.30pm(AEST) Everyone is welcome.
My origami workshop will start at 5.30pm. Please prepare the three sheets of square paper and a pair of scissors.
It will be easy and fun origami for everyone!
No need to book the workshop. But I can send the notificationg including the updates if you book through this Eventbrite page. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/167187445149
Attending the event, you’ll have a chance to win great prizes, including the return flight to Japan.
Take your origami after the workshop and post with #japanaroo to enter the competition.
Celebrating the Australia-Japan relationship, Japanaroo offers you Japan at your doorstep. Free to join the opening, find out more about Japanese culture! For more details and how to participate, please visit www.japanaroo.com
You can find out more about Japanese culture at Japanaroo Opening Night.
Hope to see you there!
Design: JETAA NSW
Powered by Consulate-General of Japan in Sydney, JETAA NSW, doq Pty Ltd, AJYD, J Culture Sydney & Midori Furze
Origami Workshops at Japanaroo 2021
Japanaroo will take you on a short trip to Japan in Sydney.
The new Japanese project in Sydney will be on 20-29 August 2021!
I will run two origami workshops at Kintsugi Australia Studio in Sydney CBD.
There are many reasons to do origami. I often say that origami is yoga for your brains. A nice exercise is good for your healthy life.
I will collaborate with Kintsugi Australia and offer you the workshops. You can choose one of the dates listed below.
Sat 21 August 11am-12.30pm
Sat 28 August 2.30-4pm
More info please go to: https://classbento.com.au/l/4jdz-w
My origami installation at the gala concert will be at the Sydney Conservatory of Music on 20 August, too.
Podcast with Sally
Enjoy talking about my practice at the Podcast
Big thanks to Sally-Anne Hurley from “How to Love the Sht Out of Life”
She is a wonderful interviewer and I enjoyed talking about origami.
She liked my origami bookmark with her name in Japanese charactors.
Podcast “How to Love the Sht Out of Life”: https://www.howtolovetheshitoutoflife.com/podcast/episode/4c86d5ad/episode-58-how-to-love-the-sht-out-of-origami-with-midori-furze
Fun Friday! Lane Cove Council Project
Let’s make a mother’s day card with Midori
Your mum will love your hand-made card!
Follow the instruction and make many origami hearts!
I really enjoyed filming the origami instruction video with Mayu.
It is now posted on Lane Cove Council’s Facebook page.
Interview by Consulate of Japan Sydney
Interview by Jessica Scott
Honoured to be interviewed by the Consulate of Japan.
I was very excited and nervous at the same time about my interview by Jessica Scott from the Consulate of Japan, Sydney.
I am the 10th person to be interviewed, so, I have seen all Jassica’s interviews.
I am the 10th person to be interviewed, so, I have seen all Jassica’s interviews.
All of them are amazing people in Sydney.
Anyway, I love talking about origami and my projects.
Origami Koinobori Project 2021
Feed Me More Kabuto – Visit JPF and fold the Origami
Join us for the origami project!
In April and May 2021, Japan Foundation in Sydney (Level 4, Central Park 28 Broadway Chippendale NSW) runs the origami project. Anyone can join the fun.
You can make a samurai hat and it will be a part of the koinobori.
This project was well-received at an origami workshop in Tonga, 2019, which I was invited to by The Japan Foundation. I particularly like that this project is based around the concept that people can work together to create a large collaborative work while anyone can participate in at their own pace.
Furthermore, I think this is a project that suits our current situation, where social gatherings are restricted but our desire to be connected with others remains. The Japanese hoist koinobori every year in May, allowing them to swim in the blue skies of spring in Japan. It is these koinobori that wish for children’s good health. I wish that our origami koinobori brings us similar good health here.
311 Paper Cranes
Folded With Love
My 311 Paper Cranes installation was displayed at the East Japan disaster commemoration event.
Big thanks to my helpers. I couldn’t have done so well without them and I received a lot of nice feedback about my installation.
Mr Kiya, the Consul of General in Sydney congratulated me for making it.
The main stage events also went very well. I was honoured to meet energetic performers, wonderful volunteer staff, visitors and the sponsors that evening.
The event was on the news on TBS and the reporter was Hiroki Iijima.
Please watch the YouTube link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ0VZ-lE3LQ
