MI Bon Summer Festival 2025
Join us for our 3rd Annual Japanese Bon Festival at Cranbrook #MIBON2025 on Sunday, August 10th 2025 (12-4pm ET) at the Cranbrook Japanese Garden in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
EVENT HOSTS: Our Michigan Bon Summer Festival 2025 is a community event co-hosted by Great Lakes Taiko Center (GLTC) and the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research (CCCR).
FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES: Garden tours, cultural booths with activities for all ages, and vendors offering snacks and merchandise, will be open from 12-4pm.
PROGRAM FEATURES: MI Bon Dancing for all will take place in the meadow at 1pm & 3pm. Great Lakes Taiko Drumming performance will begin at 2pm.
LOCATION: Festivities will be held on the historic grounds of the Cranbrook Japanese Garden (indoors at the Center for Performing Arts in case of rain) with FREE parking/shuttle at 550 Lone Pine Rd, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304.
MI Bon Dancing!
Learn all about the Bon dances that are featured at our annual festivals!
Bon dancers and drummers at our first GLTC community MI Bon Summer Festival in 2021, Novi, MI #MIBON2021
Watch our MI Bon Dance & Tutorial videos and learn more about each song and dance that we will be featuring at this year’s MI Bon Summer Festival on our MI Bon Dance page:
MI Bon Festivals
2021-2024
#MIBON2024
Obon (お盆) / SECOND JAPANESE BON FESTIVAL AT CRANBROOK / #MIBON2024
Sunday, August 11th, 2024 | 1:00pm - 5:30pm
Cranbrook Japanese Garden
550 Lone Pine Road
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
Featuring Great Lakes Taiko Drumming, MI Bon Dancing, Cranbrook Japanese Garden Tours, and More!
Free Admission (Advance Registration Required)
#MIBON2024 is a Community Project presented by the Great Lakes Taiko Center (GLTC) 五大湖太鼓センター Taiko Arts Collective and hosted by the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research at the Cranbrook Japanese Garden in Bloomfield Hills, MI.
This MI Bon Summer Festival is made possible by Great Lakes Taiko Center volunteer members and supported by grants from Taiko Community Alliance, TaikoVentures, and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
Additional cultural activities are provided by GLTC community partners including JACL Detroit (Japanese American Citizens League) and the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit along with botanical displays by Ikebana International Detroit (Detroit Chapter 85) and the Ann Arbor Bonsai Society.
The 2024 Cranbrook Japanese Garden Tour Season and related cultural programming is sponsored, in part, by the Clannad Foundation and the Japan Business Society of Detroit.
MI Bon T-Shirts
for #MIBON2024
Visit our GLTC info table at the cultural booths tent to purchase our MI Bon T-shirts (Adult sizes $25, Youth sizes $20)
#MIBON2023
@Cranbrook
MI Bon 2023 (pre-event) Dance Workshop participants dancing to Tokyo Ondo, one of the Bon dances featured at GLTC #MIBON2023 (video: July 23rd 2023 at Rudolf Steiner HS, Ann Arbor, MI)
#MIBON2022
@Novi Public Library
MI Bon logo (2022) created by Michigan artist Deanne Bednar with GLTC member Ronna Fisher.
Festival audience learning Bon dance movements and gestures for the song Michigan Ondo at #MIBON2022 [photo: Noriko Maidens/Emi, 2022-09-24 at Novi Public Library]
Our T3/BBK Team: Kyoko Johnson, Noriko Maidens, Rieko Muroi-Bowman, and Akiyo Fisher, sensei for the Tanoishii Taiko Tai (T3) community group and Bondaiko-Bondance-Kane (BBK) festival music class, also performing as Murasaki Shikibu Ensemble [photo: Kyoko Johnson, 2022-09-24, Novi Public Library #MIBON2022]
#MIBON2021
@Novi park, MI
Japanese Taiko drums in the field at #MIBON2021 [photo: Eileen S. Ho, 2021-08-07 at Wildlife Woods Park, Novi, MI]
