The Cotroceni National Museum, in partnership with Burda Romania, organized on Saturday, August 1st, between 10 a.m and 4 p.m, in the garden of the Palace, a workshop entitled „Origami - The Paper Palace“, with Bogdan Ionescu, who taught children how to make paper toys.
The workshop is a first step to the Origami International Festival, to be held in the same garden of the Palace, on the 25th and 26th of September.
Origami is a traditional Japanese art of paper folding that has known different styles and techniques. It encourages pacience, the skill of maintaining a physical and spiritual balance, and helps children acknowledge the basic notions of righteousness and truth.
Bogdan Ionescu, only 11, is one of the origami enthuziasts, and his passion started in 2003 when he received as Christmas present two books about this art. Selftaught, he learned the diagrames, and has lately started to create his own. In June, Bogdan Ionescu has met His Excellency, the Japanese Embassador in Romania, Mr. Yoshinobu Higashi, who was taken in by his paper works.
Bodgan was invited to hold origami workshops for Ioana magazine and the Carturesti bookshop at the first edition of Kihi-Kiha&co Fair.
Bogdan sees his new passion as a method to relax, to create a new, imaginary world. He presents his new hobby to children, as an alternative to a world where games, imagination and skill are overcome by computers.
The workshop is a first step to the Origami International Festival, to be held in the same garden of the Palace, on the 25th and 26th of September.
Origami is a traditional Japanese art of paper folding that has known different styles and techniques. It encourages pacience, the skill of maintaining a physical and spiritual balance, and helps children acknowledge the basic notions of righteousness and truth.
Bogdan Ionescu, only 11, is one of the origami enthuziasts, and his passion started in 2003 when he received as Christmas present two books about this art. Selftaught, he learned the diagrames, and has lately started to create his own. In June, Bogdan Ionescu has met His Excellency, the Japanese Embassador in Romania, Mr. Yoshinobu Higashi, who was taken in by his paper works.
Bodgan was invited to hold origami workshops for Ioana magazine and the Carturesti bookshop at the first edition of Kihi-Kiha&co Fair.
Bogdan sees his new passion as a method to relax, to create a new, imaginary world. He presents his new hobby to children, as an alternative to a world where games, imagination and skill are overcome by computers.
