Celebrate Japanese artistic traditions in the Northwest through calligraphy, Star Festival wish-writing, and haiku with Living Traditions artists and curators.

Sunday, July 12 at the Bellevue Library (KCLS). Join guest curator Dr. Anna-Marie Moblard Meier and co-curator and master calligrapher Shizu Usami for the launch of Living Traditions -a new multicultural exhibition series celebrating the many communities that have shaped the creative life of the Pacific Northwest, one culture at a time. This first iteration is dedicated to the arts of Japan.

Poet and haiku scholar Michael Dylan Welch—co-founder of the American Haiku Archives, director of the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, and officer of Haiku Northwest—presents haiku in English and Japanese, moving between classical and contemporary voices.

The program is in English and Japanese and includes a short tanzaku wish-writing workshop. Free and open to the public. Presented by Bellevue Arts Museum and Bellevue Arts Fair. Supported by King County 4Culture.

Online exhibition coming soon: www.bellevuearts.org/living-traditions-pnw