News for September 2012

14 September 2012

Japanese Garden Society Book and Exhibition

We gave a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant to the Japanese Garden Society in 2010 to support their project Visions of Paradise – the Japanese Garden in the UK. They published an 80-page booklet and proceeds from sales of the booklet have gone into funding a travelling  exhibition about Japanese Gardens in the UK. This exhibition

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10 September 2012

Sumidagawa/Curlew River at Christ Church Spitalfields on 7 September 2012

There will be a rash of Benjamin Britten events over the next 18 months, since 2013 marks the centenary of his birth. But last Friday’s performance of Sumidagawa and Curlew River at Christ Church Spitalfields (repeated in Orford, Suffolk on Sunday) promised to be one of the most interesting, bringing together Britten’s “Japanese” opera with

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