Stestrup is a small town in rural Denmark. The Stestrup primary school was closed this summer 2023. Let us remember them by recalling that in January 1991 Makato Yamaguchi visited the school together with an entire Japanese TV team in order to make origami together with the children and their parents. The picture shows him…
Category: Culture
More Angels – and a new variation
Previously we saw Ripon Cathedral use the origami angel for a community event (An Angel becomes 10,000). On the morning of 24th of December – the very day we celebrate Xmas in Denmark – Alison Wright from Dunblane Cathedral in Scotland wrote to me that they use the angel in their community to have a…
An Angel becomes 10,000
It is not every day your origami design is folded 10,000 times by others, but that happened to my angel this summer. The Ripon Cathedral runs the campaign A Wing and a Prayer with an installation of 10,000 angels praying under the COVID-19 pandemic. 100 volunteers and 300 children aged 3-90 years helped realise the…