NaoTK
Chumono
Come for the headliners, stay for the BBQ and botanical garden. That's my plan anyway. And sell pots.
Marija Hajdic's American debut as I understand
Marija Hajdic's American debut as I understand
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Bonsai Central, Collinsville, IL (near St. Louis) USA, May 3-5, 2024
- Thread starter NaoTK
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Kanorin
Chumono
Indeed! I can help organize some kind of Bnut meetup if people are interested!
Kanorin
Chumono
I should also add that I’m helping to organize this convention. So I can post some updates to this thread and do my best to answer or find out answers if anyone has questions.
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
Kanorin
Chumono
I've been working on the program...it's still a work in progress, but we are getting close.
We should have registration up and running by August 1. Tree submissions are open!
Some summary stats and highlights of our program
We should have registration up and running by August 1. Tree submissions are open!
Some summary stats and highlights of our program
- Number of workshops by our headliners: 13
- Workshops by vendors/other: 1-3
- Number of lectures w/ Q&A sessions by headliners: 9
- Number of informal "pop-up" demonstrations by headliners: 12
- Number of "professional roundtables": 3
- North-American Natives for bonsai
- Transitioning raw (collected or field-grown) material to bonsai
- Potter's roundtable
- First night = 5 simultaneous demonstrations by our headliners happening on stage
- Second night = Speed-styling demo challenge (Each professional spends 10-15 minutes with material, then passes it to next professional)
- Exhibition walkthroughs with headliners
- Tree Critiques with headliners
- Between 3 and 7 educational bonsai events happening simultaneously at all times!!!
yenling83
Omono
Dang! Some decent cash prizes for Bonsai, and a great lineup of Bonsai pros and at least 1 legit vendor
Shogun610
Masterpiece
wow I wish they had cool things like this …besides Natl show … east east coast only has MABS and with all due respect … MABS needs a shot in the arm.
Abhishek Dasgupta
Mame
Ok I definitely need to travel for this one . Andrew Robson and Marija Hadjic - 2 of my favorite artists coming together 
Kanorin
Chumono
Going to try and get them to do a lecture + Q&A session on hornbeams together.Ok I definitely need to travel for this one . Andrew Robson and Marija Hadjic - 2 of my favorite artists coming together
pandacular
Chumono
I haven't been to St Louis since I was young. I might try to get there.
Also, I love the name. very tasteful pun.
Also, I love the name. very tasteful pun.
Abhishek Dasgupta
Mame
That’s awesome ! Coreana vs Orientalis as they work on different species and also approach to taking a field grown one into bonsai
Kanorin
Chumono
Good ideas.
We also have the field grown tree -> bonsai transition covered in another roundtable + Q&A session (Transitioning raw collected or field-grown material to bonsai).
Kanorin
Chumono
You can see some examples of our workshop material in the gallery at the bottom of this page.
HardBall
Yamadori
This is great news! Please keep us updated.
Wood
Shohin
Kanorin
Chumono
The Bonsai Central Planning committee is happy to announce that the website for the convention is now live, and we have recently started to accept registrations. This event is shaping up to be a wonderful opportunity for bonsai practitioners to exhibit their trees at a world class exhibition, shop supplies from highly coveted vendors across the country, and learn new skills via workshops, lectures, professional roundtables, formal demonstrations, critiques, exhibit walkthroughs, and informal pop-up demonstrations with our robust lineup of professional artists.
Bonsai Central will Feature:
We hope to see you there!
Sneak peak of our programming for Friday (work in progress and subject to change)
Bonsai Central will Feature:
- 6 Professional guest artists: Marija Hajdic, Mauro Stemberger, Bjorn Bjorholm, Young Choe, Andrew Robson, and Tyler Sherrod.
- 14+ Workshops
- Bonsai, Kusamono and suiseki exhibits
- $7500 in prize money
- 12 Informal “pop-up” demonstrations
- 2 formal demos with 5+ artist taking place Friday and Saturday night
- Dinner is included in the price of admission on Friday and Saturday
- 9+ Bonsai and Kusamono lectures + Q&A sessions
- 3+ Professional roundtables (North American natives for bonsai, Transitioning nursery/yamadori/field-grown trees to bonsai, pot-making and bonsai ceramics)
- Opportunities for exhibition walkthroughs and critiques/Q&A with each of our guest artists
- 15+ Vendors confirmed to date
- Between three to seven simultaneous bonsai-related events happening at all times!
We hope to see you there!
Sneak peak of our programming for Friday (work in progress and subject to change)
yenling83
Omono
EPIC!!!
Wood
Shohin
Just registered and I'm stoked for next May! Had a legit hard time picking which workshops to sign up for, and didn't even know about the popup demos or lectures.
Any chance that those will be recorded for later viewing for anyone who was busy during a different workshop?
Any chance that those will be recorded for later viewing for anyone who was busy during a different workshop?
