Hello everyone ππ½ππ½ππ½ Iβm so happy to share with you first set of photos from the Origami Mitra Mumbai exhibition this weekend. This event is in conjunction with the BMC (Mumbai municipal), Trees Authority, Mumbai Zoo, and the Consulate-General of Japan in Mumbai and is being held in the open ground outside the Mumbai Zoo.
The Indo-Japanese cultural friendship society has three main activities β bonsai, origami, and ikebana. The bonsai group has been very active for many years and, meeting x3 a week; their 100+ members have come together here to display almost 250 bonsai specimens!!! The oldest bonsai in the exhibit might be 90+ years old! Also special to note is that as of 2025, sister cities Mumbai & Yokohama are celebrating 60 years of mutual respect, cultural exchange, and friendship. The Japanese consulate has a small but informative display, at the start of the bonsai exhibition, of some of their most well-known creative artifacts and disciplines. The origami exhibition is in a tent adjacent to the bonsai exhibition. There are about 40+ tables, each themed with mainly various animals, birds, & creatures β- to acknowledge being at the Mumbai Zoo! Additionally there are tables for paper ikebana, modular quilts, tessellations, modulars, & kusudama as well. The very special ashtavinayak (eight ganesh/ganapati) display from the Pune Origami Mitra exhibit, has been brought here now for the Mumbai Origami Mitra exhibit! Rounding out the themes are few more - one for models by young folders (this is a must-see!), and tributes to Meenakshi Mukerji and Gay Merrill Gross, two excellent prolific origami creators, folders, and authors, who sadly passed away in June 2024 and April 2025 respectively. We miss them both dearly β€οΈππππ©·π§‘ In a city vibrant and hectic, with multiple choices of artistic, creative, and cultural events to attend, this author (andβs folding participant of the exhibit!) definitely feels that taking time out to come and witness the colorful, inventive, and playful origami and the brilliant, careful, and lengthy endeavor that is bonsai, for 2-3 hours this weekend, will be hugely gifted without joy and hope. The exhibit is open, free to the public, from Fri Nov 28th to Sun Nov 30th, 2025 from 10am to 6pm. [https://www.flickr.com/gp/nomadclickr/9G11aZgh90] This is a link to the first set of Photos from the Nov 2025 Origami & Bonsai exhibition in Mumbai; there will be some more photos added to the album in a few more daysβ¦ so check back again as well. [https://youtu.be/h9IO2sWBd4I] [https://youtu.be/8Iy5wAa2jIo] [https://youtu.be/b4zrEkZi0YU] These are links to 3 short videos from the opening ceremony with Consul-General, Mr. YAGI Koji, Consulate-General of Japan in Mumbaiβ¦ speaking in Marathi ππ½ππ½ππ½ πΌπΈπΊπΏ Happy folding Vishakha .
