CALENDAR of EVENTS

*LCBS cannot be responsible for errors or omissions of programs and/or presenters, venues, dates, or other details subject to change.

 Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS December meeting featuring our Annual Christmas Party/Dinner to be held this year again at the Kyoto Restaurant, 2610 Dillard Loop (off Hwy. 14 behind Logan’s Roadhouse). Please e-mail an RSVP to Don Pearson at dpearson2308@suddenlink.net or call Don by Saturday, 17 December, so we can reserve the right size room.

  Sunday, 1 January 2011: Happy New Leap Year. Your 2012 membership dues deadline is today! Send in your dues with the renewal form on page 9 in your Bonsai News or from the Membership link on this site.

  Tuesday, 17 January 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS January meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA.

  Tuesday, 21 February 2012: Mardi Gras.

  Tuesday, 28 February 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS February meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA. (This meeting is delayed by one week due to Mardi Gras.)

  Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS March meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic will be exhibit preparation. Please bring exhibit trees for last minute grooming.

  Friday-Saturday, 23-24 March 2012 from 9-5: LCBS Annual Exhibit at the SWLA Garden Fest at Burton Coliseum, 7001 Gulf Hwy. in Lake Charles, LA, USA.

  Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS April meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA.

  Tuesday, 15 May 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS May meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA.

  Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS June meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA.

  Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS July meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA.

  Tuesday, 21 August 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS August meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA.

  Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS September meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA.

  Tuesday, 16 October 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS October meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA.

  Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS November meeting at McNeese State University, Frasch Hall, Lecture Hall 101. Topic TBA.

  Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS December meeting will be our annual Christmas party.

Other Bonsai Events

  16-18 December 2011 from 9-5: Cape Bonsai Kai Annual Exhibit at Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa. For further details phone Tony Bent at 083-230-5348 or Dorothy Franz at 021-797-8972 or email them at tony@nanoson.com or dnfranz@gmail.com.

21-22 January 2012 from 9-6: Noelanders Trophy XIII at Centrum voor duurzaam bouwen, Marktplein 1, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. For details contact Hans Vleugels via http://www.bonsaiassociation.be/.

  February 3-5, 2012: California Shohin Society Seminar 2012 at the California de Oro Hotel, Santa Nella, CA, USA. Details from tmatson@earthlink.net

2–4 March 2012: New Zealand National Bonsai Convention in Dunedin. Theme is Chinese Connections celebrating the long history of links with China since the Otago gold rush in the 19^th century. Featuring Qingquan Zhao from Yangzhou. Details at http://www.otagobonsai.co.nz or email gjletts@xtra.co.nz.

  1 April 2012: Deadline for entries in the John Y. Naka Design Award. Professional and hobbyist flights using either Native American Plant material or Material grown entirely in North America. Open to all N.A. regional associations, local clubs, study groups and professional bonsai educators and their members or students who exhibit the spirit of artistic design as taught by John Naka. Visit the ABS web site at http://absbonsai.org for details.

  April 11-15, 2012: California Bonsai Society’s 55^th Anniversary Convention at the Crown Plaza Anaheim Resort, Anaheim, CA,USA featuring: The Iron Men of John Naka, starring: Sig Miya, frank Goya, Richard Ota, Ben Oki, and Harry Hirao. Guest artists are Tomohiro Masumi and Ryan Neil.

  14-15 April 2012 from 11-4: Louisiana Bonsai Society’s Annual Fall Exhibit at the Baton Rouge Garden Center, 7950 Independence Blvd. Lecture-demo at 2:00 each day. Free admission.

  20-22 April 2012: MidAtlantic Bonsai Societies’ 29^th Spring Festival at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey in Grantville, PA, USA. Featuring Isao Omachi of Japan, Mario Komsta of Spain, and John (JT) Thompson of California. Details at http://www.midatlanticbonsai.freeservers.com/fescurr.htm.

  27-29 April 2012: Lone Star Bonsai Federation Convention, Roots of Bonsai—Celebrating American Bonsai Masters Trained in Japan, at the Sheraton Dallas North Hotel. Featuring Kathy Shaner, Michael Hagedorn and Ryan Neil. Details are available at http://www.bonsaisocietyofdallas.com.

  4-6 May 2012: Potomac Bonsai Festival at the U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, DC, USA. Free admission. Details at http://www.usna.usda.gov/Education/events.html.

  5 May 2012, 09:00-16:00: The Fort Walton Beach Bonsai Society will host the annual Tri-city Bonsai Show at Westwood Retirement Resort, 1001 Mar Walt Dr, Fort Walton Beach, FL. The exhibit includes bonsai, suiseki and Japanese dolls from the Pensacola Gulf Coast Bonsai Society, Azalea City Bonsai Society of Mobile, Mississippi Gulf Coast Bonsai Society and the Fort Walton Beach Bonsai Society, Inc, will be displayed.

  4-6 May 2012: Potomac Bonsai Festival at the U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, DC, USA. Free admission. Details at http://www.usna.usda.gov/Education/events.html.

  11-20 May 2012: Michigan All-State Bonsai Show at the Frederik Meijer Gardens, 1000 E. Beltline Ave. NE in Grand Rapids, MI, USA. Featuring Pauline Muth. Details at http://www.meijergardens.org/calendar/event.php?id=844.

  11-13 May 2012: EBA—ESA Convention XXVIII hosted by the Slovenian Bonsai Club at the congress center of Hotel Mons, Pot na Brdo 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Featuring Kevin Willson (UK) and Salvatore Liporace (Italy) along with a New Talent Competition. For details, visit http://www.eba2012.si/en.

  18-20 May 2012: Mid-West Bonsai Show at the Chicago Botanical Gardens at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL, USA 60022. Details TBA at http://www.midwestbonsai.org/mayshow.html.

  18-21 May 2012: 25^th AABC Ltd. Convention hosted by Bonsai Northwest, Inc. Melbourne at Rydges Hotel in Bell City, Australia. Featuring Boon Manakitivipart with Don Deluca and Glenis Bebb. Details at http://www.bonsainorthwest.com.au.

  24-28 May 2012: Bonsai Societies of Florida Convention at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, 8001 International Drive in Orlando FL, USA 32819 during Memorial Day Weekend. Featuring Ryan Neil, Peter Warren, and Kora Dalagher with Michael Feduccia and Jason Osborne. Details at http://bonsai-bsf.com/?p=1114.

  9-10 June 2012: 3^rd U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition at the Fair & Expo Center in Rochester, NY, USA. Featuring demonstrations by Yasuo Mitsuya with Kathy Shaner, Marc Noelanders, and Dr. Alice Chen, an oriental brush painting artists from NY. Admission is $15/daily or $20/weekend (purchased before 1 June). Saturday evening award banquet and benefit auction is $35 by advanced reservation. For details contact WNV@internationalbonsai.com.

  16-17 June 2012: Wildwood Gardens Bonsai Weekend, 14488 Rock Creek Road, Chardon, OH, USA featuring Pauline Muth and Frank Mihalic. Details at http://www.wildwoodgardens.com.

  21-24 June 2012: BCI-ABS 2012: Visions of the American West will be held at the Denver Marriott Tech Center in Denver, CO, USA. This will be BCI’s 50^th anniversary. Featuring Marc Noelanders, Dan Robinson and Ryan Neil along with Lindsay Bebb, Chiara Padrini, Larry Jackel, Harold Sasaki, John Kirby and Young Choe. There will also be a 4 day pre-convention tour from 17-21 June 2012 for approximately $925 (not including hotel). Details at http://bonsai2012.org/ or http://bonsai-bci.com.

  17-19 August 2012: Mid-West Bonsai Show at the Chicago Botanical Gardens at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL, USA 60022. Featuring Peter Warren. Details TBA at http://www.midwestbonsai.org/augustshow.html.

  14-16 September 2012: Pacific Northwest Bonsai Club Association (PNBCA) Convention XXIII at the Hilton Hotel at Vancouver, WA near Portland, OR. Hosted by the Bonsai Society of Portland and featuring Marco Invernizzi (Italy), Peter Warren (U.K.), and U.S. talents Ted Matson, Dave DeGroot, Jim Gremel, Michael Hagedorn, Joe Harris III and Scott Elser. For details visit http://www.portlandbonsai.org or call Jan Hettick at (503)504-7760.

  14-23 September 2012: 10^th Crespi Cup in Milan, Italy featuring penjing masters, Huang Jiu Wei and Liu Chuan Gang of China and Takeo Kawabe of Japan who specializes in driftwood. Competitions in bonsai, shohin, pottery and suiseki  are featured with the first weekend for amateurs and the second for professionals. Details at http://www.crespibonsi.com

  17-23 September 2012: Vacation and Suiseki by Chiara Padrini features a lecture on stone appreciation at Crespi followed by a stone collecting field trip to the Ligurian Alps and in Sicily. Registration should be submitted by 31 March 2012. For details on costs and arrangements, contact Chiara Padrini at chiara@padrini.it or http://www.padrini.it.

  3-4 November 2012 from 11-4: Louisiana Bonsai Society’s Annual Fall Exhibit at the Baton Rouge Garden Center, 7950 Independence Blvd. Lecture-demo at 2:00 each day. Free admission.

November 2012: Shuga-ten (秋雅展) is an annual exhibition held at Ueno Green Club in Tokyo (上野グリーンクラブ, Tel: 03-5685-5656) (3-min. walk from Nezu Station on subway Chiyoda Line) by AJSBA (All Japan Shohin-Bonsai Association, 全日本小品 盆栽協会, Tel: 075-691-5488). You can also buy bonsai at the sales corner. Admission: ¥600.

November 2012: 33^rd Taikan-ten (日本盆栽大観展), is the biggest annual bonsai exposition in the Kansai (west Japan) area held at Miyako-Messe in Kyoto (京都市勧業館みやこめっせ). 8 minute walk from Higashiyama Sta. on subway Tozai Line or 15 min. by bus from JR Kyoto Station to Kyoto Kaikan-mae Bus Stop. Vendors. Admission: ¥800.

  28 November-2 December 2012: Asia-Pacific Bonsai Friendship Federation (ABFF) 2012 hosted by the Philippine Bonsai Association at Ayala Triangle Gardens, Makati City, Philippines. The Asian Experience: Sharing a Common Frontier in Bonsai. For details contact the PBSI Secretariat, 168B Gonzales Street, Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108, Philippines or phone (632)920-9349 or fax (632)920-9348 or e-mail abff2012.philippines@yahoo.com or abff2012.philippines@gmail.com or visit http://www.philippinebonsaisociety.com. 

  7-9 June 2013: International Bonsai Colloquium sponsored by International Bonsai at Rochester, NY, USA. Featuring Kathy Shaner, Ryan Neil, Peter Warren, Dennis Makishima, David DeGroot and Wm. N. Valavanis. Special 50^th year Valavanis Commemorative Bonsai Exhibit and book release. Details at http://www.internationalbonsai.com/index.html.

BCI 2013 will be hosted by the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, Flower Bonsai & Artistic Stone Branch in Yangzhou, China. Details TBA at http://bonsai-bci.com and http://www.shouxihu.com. E-mail at BCI2013@163.com.

BCI 2014 will be held at

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