Join Clark College, City of Vancouver and Vancouver Rotary on the Clark College main campus for the annual Sakura Festival, celebrating the gift of the beautiful cherry blossom trees and international friendship. 

The ceremony will begin at 1:00 p.m. in the Royce Pollard Japanese Friendship Garden* with festivities continuing in Gaiser Student Center at 2:00 p.m. with display and demonstration tables, cookies and tea and performances by the Japanese Club, Traditional Japanese dance performance and Takohachi drum group. 

*Please note the ceremony will move inside if there is inclement weather. 

Over 25 years ago, the City of Vancouver received a gift of friendship: 100 Shirofugen cherry trees. They were planted at Clark College, creating an enduring reminder of the bonds between our region and Japan. Over the years, those trees have grown and blossomed—as has that friendship, creating traditions like the establishment in 1995 of a sister-city relationship between Vancouver and Joyo, Japan, and our annual Sakura Festival, begun in 2006. 

Learn and see more about the rich history of the Sakura Festival.

Organizer CStark@clark.edu