CALENDAR of EVENTS

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

Saturday, 11 June 2011: LCBS June meeting will be at Alan Walker's garage at 916 Kirby Street in Lake Charles featuring a "Bonsai from Scratch" workshop. Members will bring a piece of raw bonsai material which they will develop into a bonsai. The resulting bonsai will be entered into Stone Lantern's $1,000 Bonsai from Scratch contest. Visit their web site at http://bonsaibark.com/2011/04/02/1000-bonsai-from-scratch-contest/ to view details. Don't forget to bring your material and tools to compete. If you are lacking anything, we'll try to help you out. Greg LeBlanc may have some material from Black Bayou Bonsai to help you get started.

In a moment of weakness we changed the first prize from $250.00 to $400 and added another $600 worth of prizes. We figured you wouldn’t mind.

The prizes

• First prize $400 gift certificate to Stone Lantern

• Second prize $250 gift certificate to Stone Lantern

• Third prize $150 gift certificate to Stone Lantern

• Another $200 worth of gift certificates will be awarded.

• Plus other gifts (for example, Robert Steven has already committed to donating 1 copy each of Mission of Transformation and Vision of My Soul).

How to enter

Find an untrained stock plant. Your choice of size, variety etc. We are encouraging people to use nursery stock. However, you can submit whatever you’d like. One of the main things we will be looking for is the degree of improvement. So, if you start with great collected wild stock, you might actually be at a disadvantage. But please, do whatever suits you.

Photograph it from all four sides (and any other angels you want) before you do anything else.

Send your photos to wayne@stonelantern.com. Put Bonsai from Scratch in the subject line and put your name and where you live in the text.

Grab your tools and get to work. You can get started whenever you want, but the sooner you do, the more time you’ll have to develop you bonsai.

The contest will close October 15^th 2011.

Take photos as you go if you want. The more the merrier, but the only ones that are completely necessary to enter are the before photos and the final photos.

When you’ve got what you want, either leave it in a nursery pot, or put it in a bonsai pot and photograph it from all four sides (and any other angle you would like). Hint: an uncluttered background that shows the tree to its best advantage is a good idea.

Send your photos to wayne@stonelantern.com. Put Bonsai from Scratch in the subject line and put your name and where you live in the text. Preferred image size is 680 pixel width at 72 dpi. If you don’t know how to do this, do let that deter you. Just send us what you have.

Rules

1.      You must start with untrained stock. We prefer you use nursery stock that has not been grown for bonsai. We recognize there is a gray area and will try to be flexible.

2.      Send your before photos when you get started (see #2 above for details). Do not wait for your final submission to send them.

3.      You must start with untrained stock this year. Bonsai done before this year are unacceptable.

4.      Your finished tree can be in either a nursery pot or a bonsai pot. Like the stock you started with, it must be photographed from all four sides.

5.      Final submission must be in by October 15^th 2011.

6.      You must do all the work yourself. No one else should lay a hand or a tool on the tree you submit.

7.      One finished entry per person. You can submit more than one untrained stock plant at the beginning, but you will have to make the decision on which finished tree you want to submit.

Judges

We will have at least three professional judges (let me know if you are interested). We will also ask our readers to get involved with the judging (more on this later).

Additional prizes

If you would like to offer something as prize, your prize will be listed with your name and business name and your site will be linked.

More information

I’m not sure we’ve covered everything, in fact I’m sure we haven’t. So stay posted for more information. Meanwhile, go ahead and get started.

Tuesday, 19 July 2011 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS July meeting at Alan Walker’s garage at 916 Kirby Street featuring TBA.

Tuesday, 16 August 2011 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS August meeting aat Alan Walker’s garage at 916 Kirby Street featuring TBA.

Tuesday, 20 September 2011 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS September meeting at Alan Walker’s garage at 916 Kirby Street featuring TBA.

Tuesday, 18 October 2011 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS October meeting aat Alan Walker’s garage at 916 Kirby Street featuring TBA.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS November meeting at Alan Walker’s garage at 916 Kirby Street featuring TBA.

 Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 7:00 p.m.: LCBS December meeting featuring our Annual Christmas Party.

Other Bonsai Events

 9-12 June 2011: 6^th International Bonsai & Suiseki Exhibition and 2^nd Japanese Festival hosted at Commerce and Entertainment Centre "OZAS", Ozo str. 18 LT-08243, Vilnius, Lithuania. Featuring Salvadore Liporace, Vaclav Novak, Keiko Borjeson, and Sae Won Kim. Fees are 6€ for adults and 4€ for children. For details and registration visit http://www.bonsailithuania.com.

10-12 June 2011: 38^th BSF Convention hosted at the Ramada Celebration Resort in Orlando, FL, USA for the Bonsai Societies of Florida.  Featuring Ryan Neil. For details contact Dorothy Schmitz at 239-947-3552 or erniesbonsai@earthlink.net.

Thursday, 16 June 2011 from 08:00-17:00: Joshua Roth New Talent Bonsai Competition will be held at the BCI/ABS 2011 convention in Louisville, KY (see below). Individuals who have actively participated in bonsai for 10 years or less are invited to enter this national competition to recognize the new bonsai talent in North America. For details contact Harold Johnson at haroldjrntbc@yahoo.com.

16-19 June 2011: Bonsai in the Bluegrass: BCI/ABS 2011 will be held at Fern Valley Hotel & Convention Center in Louisville, KY, USA. Details TBA at http://bonsaiinthebluegrass.com, http://www.louisvillebonsai.org and http://bonsai-bci.com.

Saturday, 18 June 2011: Suiseki Daiza Creation Workshop at Shohin Society of Texas at Persimmon Hill Bonsai, 12001 Red Hawk Cove, Austin, TX, USA. For details contact Terry or Sheila Ward at texshohin@sbcglobal.net  or call 512-280-5575.

 23-24 July 2011: 2011 Southeastern Regional Bonsai Show presented by the Nashville Bonsai Society at Cheekwood Botanical Garden, 1200 Forrest Park Drive, Nashville, TN. Featuring Ryan Neil. For details contact Barbara Bogan at 615-337-4728 or bogansbonsai@frontier.com or visit http://www.nashvillebonsai.com.

 27-28 August 2011: Bonsaiautumn 7: East Meets West at Bienkensaal, 4702 Oensingen, Switzerland. Moderated by Walter Pall and featuring Tony Tickle, Werner Busch, Randy Knight, Gede Merta, Zino Rongo, Marc Noelanders, Rene De Boni, Enrico Savini, Mauro Stemberger, and Carlos van der Vaart. Details at http://www.bonsaiautumn.com.

 19-21 August 2011: 34^th Annual Mid-America Bonsai Exhibit at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Permanent Collection. Featuring Ryan Neil. Details at http://www.midwestbonsai.org/augustshow.html

3-5 September 2011: PCNBA Convention XXII “Elegance in the Emerald City” hosted by Pacific Northwest Bonsai Clubs Association at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, 411 University Street, Seattle, WA 98101 USA, phone 800-441-1414. Featuring Michael Hagedorn, Boon Manikitivipart, Ryan Neil, and Suthin Sukosolvisit. For details contact Carol Sangster, Registrar at bcsangster@comcast.net.

 22-26 September 2011: 3^rd African Bonsai Convention hosted by KWANBA at Elangeni Hotel, Durban, South Africa. Featuring Robert Steven and Bill Valavanis. For details contact mistymoonbonsai@gmail.com or visit http://www.abc3.co.za.

 30 September-2 October 2011: European Bonsai Association Annual Convention and Exhibition, including finals of the New Talent Contest at Ratingen, Germany, north of Dusseldorf. For details visit http://www.european-bonsai-convention.eu or http://www.bonsai-club-deutschland.de.

27-30 October 2011: Golden State Bonsai Federation 2011 Convention XXXIV: Bonsai Full Circle at the Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, Riverside, CA, USA. Featuring Kathy Shaner, Ryan Neil, Pedro Morales and Roy Nagatoshi. Registration and details at http://www.gsbf-bonsai.org/.

18-21 November 2011: ASPAC—Asia Pacific Bonsai and Suiseki Convention and Exhibition at Sunport Takamatsu (Kagawa-ken), Japan. Tour the bonsai area of Kinashi Kokubunji. Details from http://www.aspac-takamatsu.jp  or email: info@aspac-takamatsu.jp/.

November 2011: 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.

25-27 November 2011: 32^nd 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.

9-10 June 2012: 3^rd U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition in Rochester, NY, USA. For details contact WNV@internationalbonsai.com.

 BCI-ABS 2012: Visions of the American West will be held in Denver, CO, USA. This will be BCI’s 50^th anniversary. Details TBA at http://bonsai-bci.com.

BCI 2013 will be held in Yangzhou, China. Details TBA at http://bonsai-bci.com.

BCI 2014 will be held at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Details TBA at http://bonsai-bci.com.

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