How to host a Sakura Festival

Maryville’s Hawaiian Asian Pacific Islander Association (HAPA) hosted their annual Sakura Festival March 23, 2018, to honor the Japanese culture.

After years of execution from HAPA, Pawprint got behind the scenes perspective of how to host a great Sakura Festival. The steps consist of:

1. Decorations

2. Food

3. Performers

4. Student interaction with performers

5. Make your own sushi station

6. Make your own bamboo plant

7. Raffle prizes

8. Decoration breakdown

9. Have Pawprint film event