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T he Conejo Valley Bonsai Society’s Sep-tember meeting is a very special one. This
is the meeting where we will be evaluating trees that will go into our 6th Annual Exhibi-tion at Gardens of the World October 3 – 4.
In order to have more time, we will start early at 6:00 PM in our normal meeting room. We will evaluate each tree and select trees that qualify for this year’s show. Please bring in your best trees, tools, and wire.
We will discuss toppings, pot cleaning, trimming, allowable wire, and needle cleaning of junipers. It would be advisable that you take a few days to look at any tree that you are interested in entering in the show and perform some general maintenance of the tree and con-tainer so that we can evaluate the tree fairly.
Marj Branson will be logging in all the ap-proved trees. Please note that only trees that are approved will be entered in the show. If you have a tree that you feel is worthy of the show and cannot attend this meeting, please contact Marj with the information so we can make other arrangements.
C V B S m e m b e r D a m o n DuBois has v o l u n -teered to r e w o r k our tree l a b e l s , which will i m p r o v e our display significantly this year—so it is important that we know what trees will be in the show. Also, if you have any sharp accent plants or extra stands that could be used in the show, please bring them in as well.
I look forward to some enthusiastic par-ticipation this meeting.
President’s Message
It’s Time to Prepare for Our 6th Annual Exhibition By Ken Fuentes
S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 9 V O L U M E 6 N U M B E R 9
Conejo ValleyConejo Valley Bonsai SocietyBonsai Society
A member of the Golden State Bonsai Federation
CVBS on the Web (Click on name to visit Web site.)
Conejo Valley Bonsai Society CVBS CaféPress Store CVBS Online Bonsai Gallery
Other Bonsai Groups (Click on name to visit Web site.) Golden State Bonsai Federation American Bonsai Society National Bonsai Foundation Bonsai Clubs International Bonsai Club of Santa Barbara California Aiseki Kai Descanso Bonsai Society Shohin Bonsai Society of So. Cal. San Diego Bonsai Club Dai Ichi Bonsai Kai Sansui-Kai of So. Cal.
In This Issue • President’s Message:
Prepare for Exhibition … 1 • Bonsai Haiku:
Contributions Welcome … 1 • Book Shelf: A Quick Study in
Bonsai Art … 2 • Club Event: Organize for
Annual Exhibition … 3 • Editor’s Note: Getting into
Print … 4 • Solo Photo: Bonsai Pastel
No. 1 … 4 • GSBF Event: Bonsai Basics
Open at Convention … 5 PLUS: What’s Available … 5
• Refreshments … 6 • Barrett’s Bonsai Tips:
Clean and Prune … 6 • Bonsai Haiku … 6 • Coming Events … 7 – 8 • Membership … 7 • CVBS Future Programs … 8 • Photos & Art Wanted … 8
Graphic by Paul Centeno © Conejo Valley Bonsai Society
© 2009 CONEJO VALLEY BONSAI SOCIETY Views expressed by authors are not necessarily those of the Conejo Valley Bonsai Society
CVBS President Ken Fuentes
Bonsai Haiku: Contributions Welcome
Attention all “closet” bonsai poets: The “Bonsai Haiku” boxed feature (see page 6 for an example) is open to contributions. If you have tried your hand at haiku—or any other form of poetic writing—the Conejo Valley Bonsai Society’s monthly newsletter is looking for you. Contributions will be ac-cepted from both society members and non-members. In August, for example, we published a haiku by non-member Dave Burke, a resident of Plymouth, Indiana, and member of the Mid-America Bonsai Alliance. This month we feature a haiku by the classic Japanese poet Uejima Onitsura. (The only restriction is that you must be a better poet than your editor—we won’t publish doggerel!) Just send your haiku or other poem on a bonsai or related theme to me at [email protected] and I’ll take it from there.
—David E. Whiteside, Editor
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Contact Us (Click on E-mail to automatically create a message.)
Officers PRESIDENT Ken Fuentes E-mail Ken VICE PRESIDENT Paul Centeno E-mail Paul CORRESPONDING SECRE-TARY/TREASURER Marj Branson E-mail Marj RECORDING SECRETARY Evans Thomas E-mail Evans PAST PRESIDENT/ADVISOR Nat Stein E-mail Nat
Committees NEWSLETTER EDITOR David E. Whiteside Phone (805) 647-8803 E-mail David PROGRAM CHAIR Deborah Ervin E-mail Deborah PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Guy & Deborah Ervin E-mail Guy & Deborah WEBMASTERS Tom & Kiwi McGuire E-mail Tom E-mail Kiwi
Conejo Valley Bonsai Society Meeting Place Westlake Village City Hall Community Room 31200 Oakcrest Drive Westlake Village, CA 91361
Meeting Time 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM 3RD Thursday of every month
T his is a useful little book for beginning and intermediate bonsai hobbyists. It
does have some limitations. For one, its brevity translates into a treatment that is neither comprehensive nor deep.
Nonetheless, Bonsai Aesthetics: A Practical Guide offers a solid overview of the main points in bonsai style and aesthetics plus some good practical tips about how to ac-complish the task. Beginners who are not already familiar with the classic bonsai styles, for example, will get a quick lesson in a dozen core styling concepts here.
Each chapter is extremely short with an abundance of empty, white space surround-ing a minimum of type, making it visually pleasing and a very fast read. Accompanying this minimalist text, most pages devote as much space to photographs, paintings, draw-
ings, and illustrations as they do to the writ-ten word. Trained in art—his specialties at the Fine Arts School of Mulhouse were illus-tration, photography, and advertising—François Jeker makes excellent use of these graphic elements to clarify his points.
In “The Rules” chapter where he covers a handful of fundamental traditional Japanese bonsai principles, Jeker quickly clarifies such concepts as the nebari as much with illustra-tions as with words. He accomplishes much the same effect in this chapter’s sections (none of which exceed 6 pages) on the trunk, the branches, deadwood, pots, and presentation.
Along the way, Jeker provides an intro-duction to some general aesthetic principles and their history in Western Europe and in Japan, and attempts to help his Western au-dience understand the differences between Western and Eastern artistic practices. Given the brevity of this book, these are of necessity vastly over simplified, but nonethe-less often useful.
I have read many bonsai texts, but few of them have matched Bonsai Aesthetics for clarity on some of the most important con-
cepts in bonsai design. His discussions/illustrations of such ideas as negative space, depth, compactness, rhythm, unity, and asymmetry are exemplary. Few other au-thors are as effective in explaining why our bonsai gurus harp on the scalene triangle, for
example. And there is one wonderful gem for
those of us (including me) who cannot draw a tree to save our lives. Jeker show how to photograph a bonsai, convert that picture into a line drawing, modify the
drawing to produce a good framework, and from that build a bonsai-development plan. This discussion alone is worth the price of the book.
No review would be complete, how-ever, without the critic’s quibble. Jeker tends to parrot misconceptions about Japanese gardening and bonsai. For example, he refers to Japanese dry gardens (consisting of stones and raked gravel) as “zen” gardens, an idea derived from the fact that the originals often were created and maintained by Buddhist monks. One could as easily argue that formal European gardens developed and maintained by Catholic monks should be called “monk” or “Catholic” gardens. Japanese garden ex-perts increasingly dispute this notion and I would take such claims with a grain of salt.
Nonetheless, Jeker has provided the Western bonsai community with a very use-ful addition to our bibliography. He success-fully resists the temptation to rehash the basics already treated extensively elsewhere. I highly recommend it to beginners as well as to intermediate students of bonsai—especially those who do not already have a solid grounding in bonsai aesthetics.
Book Shelf
A Quick Study in Bonsai Art Review by David E. Whiteside
Bonsai Aesthetics: A Practical Guide How to improve the aesthetic quality of your trees By François Jeker 144 pages, Jeker Communication, $24.95
SEPTEMBER 2009 CONEJO VALLEY BONSAI SOCIETY 3
I would like to recap the organization for the Conejo Valley Bonsai Society’s 6th Annual Exhibition.
• Selection of Exhibition Trees: Thursday, September 17: Starting at 6:00 PM in the Community Room of Westlake Village City Hall and Library (our regular meeting place).
• Exhibition Date: Saturday and Sunday, October 3 and 4—9:00 AM to 4:00 PM each day.
• Setup: Friday afternoon, October 2, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the Resource Center, Gardens of the World.
• Breakdown and Cleanup: We will be breaking down Sun-day after 4:00 PM—this is a big job so we need plenty of help.
More specifically, we need volunteers for the following tasks: 1. Bring tables—we will know by the September meeting
how many tables we need. 2. Work the exhibition—morning and/or after-
noon on Saturday and/or Sunday. Everyone is urged to come and help, whether or not you are showing a tree.
3. Organize and/or provide refreshments/lunch for the exhibition volunteers. There is a nice kitchen with a refrigerator in the Resource Center for storing and serving pre-prepared food.
The Annual Exhibition is our most important event of the year. It is our biggest opportunity as a bonsai club to inform the public about our art, our passion. It is also a significant source of new-member recruits—many visitors are already in-terested in bonsai and looking for an avenue for entry into the practice. So all members, please check your calendars and decide how you can help. We will finalize the program at our Septem-ber meeting.
Club Event
Organize for CVBS 6th Annual Exhibition By Marj Branson
Photos from CVBS’s 2008 Annual Exhibi-tion: Visitors query club members (top and bottom right). The smallest of accent plants (right). The advanced and intermedi-ate tables (below and bottom left.)
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Editor’s Note
Getting into Print: Readers’ Photos, Poems, and More Wanted By David E. Whiteside
T here is an ever-growing number of opportunities—and needs—for contributions to this newsletter. Some are
open only to members of the Conejo Valley Bonsai Society, others are open to all readers. Some should be u n d e r t a k e n only by fairly e x p e r i e n c e bonsai artists, others could be done by readers with any level bon-sai experi-ence. Two new boxed fea-tures have been created in recent months: Solo Photo and Bonsai Haiku (see left and page 6 for examples in this issue). • S o l o Photo is for CVBS mem-bers who have a knack for photography or—desp i te “photo” in the n a m e — a n y other visual ar t . Las t
month it fea-tured a photo-graph while this
issue shows a chalk pastel painting by member Tom Wi-nans. Tom says he’s just a beginning bonsai hobbyist, but he’s an experienced artist. Other forms would also be considered: oil paintings, line drawings, illustrations, watercolors, you name it. Virtually any visual represen-tation of a quality bonsai qualifies. We would like as many details about the bonsai, especially species of tree.
• Bonsai Haiku, however, is open to all readers and even non-readers. Last month, we published a haiku by Dave Burke, resident of Plymouth, Indiana, and member of the Mid-America Bonsai Alliance. Although he had never heard of us before we asked permission to reprint his poem, Dave now receives the newsletter so he’s one of our non-member readers. This month features a bonsai haiku by classic Japanese poet Uejima Onitsura. Hope-fully, future issues will include efforts by CVBS members. While haiku seems a particularly appropriate form for a bonsai newsletter, any other poetic form is welcome.
• Book Shelf is another new feature bowing this month (page 2). A good reviewer, of course, must have some command of the subject of bonsai to be able to offer an authoritative evaluation, so most reviews will be written by intermediate to advanced bonsai hobbyists. But note that we’re not looking for professionals—amateurs are welcome. And opportunities to contribute are not limited to
these three features. Not long ago CVBS member Ken Mar-tin contributed an excellent story about the demonstration on a black pine David Nguy did during one of our meetings. As many readers are aware, CVBS members Verna Murrell and Shig Hayashi contribute many photographs from our own events as well as others. President Ken Fuentes, Secre-tary/Treasurer Marj Branson, and Refreshments Chairman Bob Stradling contribute their monthly columns. But you don't have to be an officer or committee chair to chime in. Members who visit bonsai or penjing shows, Japanese or Chinese gardens, or attend other clubs’ demonstrations are welcome to contribute articles about those experiences.
Photographs, of course, would be an excellent addi-tion to such contributions, but not necessarily required.
I look forward to many more members participating in this newsletter in the months ahead. Thanks to everyone who already has made a contribution.
This is my first painting of a bonsai. I love the traditional designs of these dwarf trees and the individuality given to the designs by the artists. The "westernized" Chinese landscape forming the background of my chalk pastel painting is my original design, based on Chi-nese landscape symbols that I have col-lected from published Chinese landscape paintings, some quite ancient. I tried to make a more interesting picture by render-ing the bonsai in photo-realism, in honor of the bonsai artist's style, and then contrasted it against an "impressionistic" landscape as a backdrop.
Chalk Pastel Painting & Photo by Tom Winans
[The bonsai in Tom’s chalk pastel painting was inspired by a photograph that appears on the Yamato Bonsai Kai Web site and its annual exhibition ads in Golden Statements, magazine of the Golden State Bonsai Federation. — Editor]
Solo Photo: Bonsai Pastel No. 1
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GSBF Event
Bonsai Basics Open at GSBF Convention
T ime is short to get in on the Golden State Bonsai Fed-eration’s 32nd Annual Convention, “A Southwest Bonsai
Journey” in Riverside, Calif., November 5 – 8. Some critiques, seminars, and workshops are full. But
there are openings in others. Of particular interest is the Bonsai Basics workshop on Saturday morning (see New
below). I recommend club novices make at least a day trip to take this workshop and visit the exhibition and vendors halls.
In addition to the list below, there are other events such as demonstrations. Visit the GSBF Convention Web site (www.gsbfconvention.com) for more information.
— David E. Whiteside, Editor
Critiques (no ‘silent observers’) (Spaces available) $Fee Friday, Nov. 6 / 8 am – 9 am: Bonsai Exhibit Critique with
Roy Nagatoshi (8) $25 Friday, Nov. 6 / 4 pm – 5 pm: Bonsai Exhibit Critique with
Dan Robinson (10) $25 Saturday, Nov. 7 / 8 am – 9 am: Stone Exhibit Critique
(20) $25 Saturday, Nov. 7 / 5 pm – 6 pm: Bonsai Exhibit Critique
with Kathy Shaner (FULL) $25 Sunday, Nov. 8 / 8 am – 9 am: Bonsai Exhibit Critique with
Peter Adams (14) $25
Seminars (no ‘silent observers’) (Spaces available) $Fee Thursday, Nov. 5 / 8 am – 11 am & 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
(full day): Kathy Shaner Refining and Design Concepts (FULL) $40
Thursday, Nov. 5 / 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Al Nelson Dai Making (10) $25
Friday, Nov. 6 / 8 am –11 am & 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Larry Ragle Stones (4) $35
Saturday, Nov. 7 / 8 am –11 am & 1:30 – 4:30 pm (full day): Peter Adams Intensive (10) $50
Excursions (Spaces available) $Fee Wednesday, Nov. 4 / 7 am – 4 pm: Yuha Stone Collecting
Trip (10) $45 Thursday, Nov. 5 / 6 am – 11 am: Grape Collecting Trip #1
(21) $35 Saturday, Nov. 7 / 6 am – 1 pm: Palm Desert Stone Col-
lecting Trip (7) $40 Sunday, Nov. 8 / 6 am – 11 am: Grape Collecting Trip #2
(21) $35 Sunday, Nov. 8 / 1:30 pm – 4 pm: Private Collection Tour
(20) $30
Workshops Participants should bring their own tools, turntables, and carving tools, power equipment, and goggles if required. Wire will be pro-vided. **These workshops—Carving Bougainvillea and Carv-ing Black Pine—require larger power tools (e.g., die grinder, Arbortech), or at least a Dremel-type tool, along with proper eye protection and breathing masks.
Instructor & Workshop Description (Spaces available) $Fee Thursday, Nov. 5 / 8 am – 11 am: 1. Roy Nagatoshi Shohin Pomegranate (FULL) $80 2. Fred Miyahara Shohin Japanese Black Pine (FULL) $200 Thursday, Nov. 5 / 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm: 3. Dan Robinson Carving Bougainvillea** (2) $300 4. Mel Ikeda Cork Bark Elm Broom (FULL) $110 5. Lindsay Shiba Shohin Japanese Boxwood (FULL) $200 Friday, Nov. 6 / 8 am – 11 am: 6. Mas Ishii Kishu on San Jose Juniper (2) $450 7. John Thompson Chinese Quince (5) $335 Friday, Nov. 6 / 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm: 8. Tak Shimazu Itoigawa on San Jose Juniper (FULL) $375 9. Bob Hilvers Kingsville Boxwood (FULL) $75 Saturday, Nov. 7 / 8 am – 11 am: 10. Kathy Shaner Foemina Juniper (FULL) $250 11. Kathy Benson Mexican Lime (1) $75 New: Bonsai Basics (27) $25
If you are a beginner in bonsai, this workshop is a great opportunity for you to learn from some of the best.
Saturday, Nov. 7 / 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm: 12. Jim Gremel Chinese Quince (1) $275 13. Peter Tea Hokkaido Elm (FULL) $275 Sunday, Nov. 8 / 8 am – 11 am: 14. Dan Robinson Carving Japanese Black Pine** (4) $250 15. Ann Erb Trident Maple (3 sizes) (FULL) $90/$125/$160
Convention Critiques, Seminars, and Workshops Spaces Available as of September 10, 2009 / Fees per Person
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H i everyone. Isn't this cool-down nice for a change? I even took
my shade cloths down. We'll see how long it lasts.
This month’s refreshments will be furnished by myself, Bob Stradling, with cold drinks and Nat Stein will be bringing the cookies/pastries.
We'll need to beef up the volun-teer list for refreshments, so think about signing up at this month’s meeting—especially for November.
To volunteer, please see me, Bob Stradling, at the next meeting or con-tact me at [email protected] or phone me at (805) 558-5206.
Many thanks to all the volunteers for all your help. And a special thanks as always to our president, Ken Fuentes, for supplying the coffee for all of the meetings. The existing schedule is below.
Here’s Who Has The Next Menu By Bob Stradling
Refreshments
Here’s Who Has The Next Menu By Bob Stradling
Cold Drinks
Cookies/ Pastries
Sept.
Bob Stradling
Nat Stein
Oct. Jill Peters
Mamata Gokhale
Nov. Volunteer Needed
Volunteer Needed
Dec. Annual Holiday Potluck
Barrett’s Bonsai Tips
Clean and Prune for a Good Spring By Jim Barrett
A lthough fall is approaching, hot, dry days are still a good possibility.
Watering properly should be top prior-ity. If a plant begins to show stress be-cause of lack of water, you may want to place the tree in full shade for two or three weeks. Return it to partial sun when new growth looks strong and healthy.
September and October are clean-up and pruning months. Fall pruning of quince or crabapples can wait until leaves fall or you can prune for shape now, removing all long summer growth.
Black pines should also be pruned, leaving one, two, or three of the new candles that have grown from the ter-minals left when they were pruned in June or July. What candles you choose to keep will be de-termined by your design goal for each tree. If you have an instructor, have him or her explain the procedure. Remove old needles, espe-cially those hanging down.
Junipers may be trimmed to main-tain their shape. Within reason, they may be trimmed rather drastically this month so that the new growth fills in to take the old growth’s place—a good practice once or twice a year to keep
the bonsai shape we strive for. Pruning hard will also give you an op-portunity to wire the s e con d a r y and tertiary branches, a tedious but important task. How-ever, try not to prune shimpaku too hard. They do not respond well to drastic foliage removal.
The next two months are impor-tant ones. What you do to your trees now will re-flect favorably or unfavorably on your design next spring.
Watch for heavy top growth on elms, zelkova, and trident maples. Re-move thick vertical and horizontal branches now so they have time to start healing before the trees go into dormancy.
Remember to watch for signs of disease and pests.
Jim Barrett
The slightest breeze blows and the sky’s dry shell is filled with the voice of pines
— Uejima Onitsura
(1660-1738) Photo: Chinese scholar’s garden adjacent to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Park, Vancouver, British Columbia
Bonsai Haiku
What you do to your trees now will reflect favorably or
unfavorably on your design next spring.
SEPTEMBER 2009 CONEJO VALLEY BONSAI SOCIETY 7
Coming Events September 2009
September 19 – 20 / San Diego, California San Diego Bonsai Club: Annual Fall Show and Sale, in Room 101, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. Free admission and parking. Exhibit and sale open from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM each day, with demonstrations during the day. Join us in the historical and beautiful Balboa Park for a day of bonsai enjoyment. For more information see our website at www.sandiegobonsaiclub.com or call Joanie at (760) 431-1014.
September 19 – 20 / San Mateo, California San Mateo Bonsai Club: 46th Annual Bonsai Exhibit at San Mateo Central Park Recreation Center, 5th & El Camino Real. Hours are Saturday, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Demonstration at 2:00 PM both days. Bonsai sale and raffle after the demonstrations. Free Admission. For more information, contact Sam Tachibana [email protected], (650) 548-9470.
September 25 – 27 / Waikiki, Hawaii Hawaii Bonsai Association: 2009 Mini Convention, Bonsai Ohana II, at the Pacific Beach Hotel, 290 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii, will feature bonsai demonstrations by Tohru Suzuki, bonsai master from Japan, and Mel Ikeda, master from California. In addition, there will be bonsai exhibits and an auction. For more information and to register, visit www.hawaiibonsaiassoc.org or email [email protected].
September 26 / San Jose, California Midori Bonsai Club: 48th Annual Bonsai Show, Northside Community Center, 488 6th Street, San Jose. Exhibition will include 18 separate 2- and 3-point displays of fine bonsai. Nationally acclaimed artist Boon Manakitivipart will style a bunjin Japanese black pine at 1:30 PM. Trees, tools, pots, and bonsai accessories will be offered by Jim Gremel, Shibui Bonsai Inc. , and others. Free styling help and advice for the public from “Dr. Bonsai.” Contact JT at (408) 371-7737 or [email protected] for more information. October 2009
October 3 / Salinas, California Salinas Bonsai Club: Annual bonsai show at the Lincoln Avenue Presbyterian Church, 536 Lincoln Avenue. Show hours 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Demonstration at 1:30 PM by Katsumi Kinoshita. A raffle of the demonstration tree and other items will follow. For more information: Don White (831) 724-9283 or [email protected]; or Maggie Brubaker (831) 663-5044 or [email protected].
October 3 – 4 / Thousand Oaks, California Conejo Valley Bonsai Society: 6th Annual Bonsai Exhibition & Demonstrations at Gardens of the World, 2001 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. Exhibition in the Resource Center from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Saturday and Sunday. Demonstrations in the Bandstand at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM Saturday and Sunday. Free admission. No sales of bonsai-related items. For more information: Ken Fuentes, President, Phone (805) 495-7480 or e-mail: [email protected]. Visit our Web site: http://www.cvbs-bonsai.org/.
October 3-4 / Fullerton, California Kofu Bonsai Kai: Annual Show at the Fullerton Arboretum, 1900 Associated Road. Hours from 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM with demonstrations both days. Reception on Saturday from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM. Free Admission. For further information call Bill Hutchinson (714) 964-6973
October 16 / Gardena, California Dai Ichi Bonsai Kai: Annual Bonsai Auction at the Ken Nakaoka Community Center, 1670 W. 162nd Street. Doors open for preview at 6:00 PM and the auction starts at 7:00 PM. Sale items to include: bonsai trees, dais, accent plants, and more. The auctioneer will be Joe James and the public is welcome. For more information call (310) 539-9365 or visit us at www.gsbf-bonsai.org/daiichibonsaikai
CVBS Memberships
CVBS—A Bonsai Club for Everyone! By Marj Branson
I f you are new to the Conejo Valley Bonsai Society—as a visitor to our
Web site, reader of our newsletter, a guest at a meeting, or already decided to join the club—there are virtually no barriers to entry. Our annual dues are only $20.00 for a single person, $25.00 for couples.
We meet on the third Thursday of
each month, starting at 7:30 PM, in the Westlake Village City Hall at 31200 Oakcrest Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91361. You can bring your check to the next meeting, or mail it to me at 1169 Triunfo Canyon Road, Westlake Village, CA 91361. Please make the check payable to Conejo Valley Bonsai Society.
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October 17 – 18 / Union City, California Yamato Bonsai Kai: 38th Annual Bonsai Exhibition at (new location) South Alameda County Buddhist Church, 32975 Alvarado-Niles Road. Hours are Saturday, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Sunday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Demonstrations both days at 1:00 PM by Johnny Uchida. Admission of $5.00 includes exhibit & sales area, demonstration, and a raffle ticket for the demonstration tree. Additional information not available at the club’s Web site, www.yamatobonsaikai.org.
October 24 – 25 / Sacramento, California Capitol City Bonsai Association: 10th Anniversary Show to support the GSBF Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt and the Sacramento bonsai clubs. Location is the Shepard Garden and Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd. in McKinley Park. Show hours are Saturday, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Sunday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Demonstration both days at 1:00 PM by sponsor clubs with special bonsai raffle drawings to follow. Vendor and club member sales areas. Contact Gary Judd (916) 630-1340. November, 2009
November 5 – 8 / Riverside, California Golden State Bonsai Federation: XXXII Convention. Headliners are Roy Nagatoshi, Kathy Shaner, and Dan Robinson, who will inspire you with their masterful techniques. Excursions include two grape digs and two stone-collecting trips (one on Wednesday prior to the Convention opening). (Click here for more information.)
November 13 – 14 / Ross, California Marin Bonsai Club: Fall show at the Marin Art and Garden Center, Livermore Room, 50 Sir Frances Drake Blvd. Hours are Friday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM, dinner, demonstration, and raffle (TBA) and Saturday,10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. For more information call Craig Thompson, (415) 472-6685.
2009
September 17
6:00 PM—NOTE EARLY START Review & Preparation of Trees for CVBS 6th Annual Exhibition BRING YOUR BEST TREES!
October 3 – 4 6th Annual Exhibition Gardens of the World (See also pages 1 & 3.)
October 15 6:00 – 7:00 PM—Class 7:30 PM—Meeting: DEMONSTRATION—Roy Nagatoshi
November 19 6:00 – 7:00 PM—Class 7:30 PM—Workshop—BRING YOUR TREES
December 17 Holiday Potluck
CVBS Future Programs
Do you have a nice photograph of one of your bonsai, or a great shot of one you saw while visiting a bonsai collection or garden? Maybe you paint or do charcoal drawings. The “Solo Photo” boxed feature (see page 4 for this month’s sample, a chalk pastel paint-ing) is an opportu-nity for all mem-bers of the Conejo Valley Bonsai Soci-ety to contribute to our monthly news-letter. At right, for example, is Grace Sy’s bunjin shim-paku juniper from last year’s CVBS Annual Exhibition (photo by Shig Hayashi). Just send the digital photo file and detailed description to the newsletter editor and I’ll take it from there. The file can be sent via email to [email protected] or on a CD to David E. Whiteside, 10349 Dar-ling Road, Ventura, CA 93004.
Solo Photo:
Member Contributions Wanted
