CALENDAR  OF  EVENTS
FOR  THE  VARIOUS
ARIZONA  BONSAI  CLUBS  &  CLASSES
2010 - 2011
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        Phoenix Bonsai Society (PBS, 1962) events, unless otherwise stated, are held 7:30 p.m. on the First Three Tuesdays of the Month, September through May, at the Valley Garden Center, 1809 N. 15th Ave., one block north of West McDowell Rd.   Visitors are always welcome at no charge or obligation.
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        Various out-of-town / out-of-state events that Phoenix club members may be participating in are marked in this type font and size.

        Tucson Bonsai Society (TBS, 1972) meets at 11:00 a.m. on the Third Sunday of every month at the Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 North Alvernon Way (near Grant), in the Educational Building (second gate from main building).  While our meetings are free and open to the public, non-members of the TBG will be charged the Gardens' admission fee of $5.  Contact Ray Noseck @ (520) 760-0128, or Gregory (Greg) Baumgartner @ (520) 661-4746 or (520) 762-1572.

        Bonsai of Scottsdale (SBS, 2000) activities (below, in this font and color) are held primarily at the Granite Reef Senior Center, Room 6, 1700 N. Granite Reef Rd. in Scottsdale, Cross streets are McDowell and Granite Reef.  Unless otherwise stated, all events will be at 1:30 p.m. on the First and Third Saturdays of the Month.  Contact Araxi Hovhannessian to check the schedule at (480) 965-0030 or Mike Grier at (480) 948-5836.

        Southern Arizona Bonsai Enthusiasts (SABE, 2001) meet the FIRST SUNDAY of each month, 12:30-4:00 p.m. at The Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 North Alvernon Way.  For information contact:   Doris Cavanaugh, doris.c@worldnet.alt.net / (520) 290-0522 , Pat & Thelma Patterson  dezertrats@aol.com / (520) 825-9685 , or Kurt  simonsk@pop.mindspring.com / (520) 321-4173.



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AUGUST 2010  SUMMER
1
SUN   SABE: TBA.
7
SAT   SBS: Selecting a pot for your plant Demo (glazed vs. unglazed; size and depth).
15 SUN   TBS: Boxwood Style Off (Gay Lynn Goetzke and Ray Noseck).
21
SAT   SBS: Joan McCarter: Leaf cutting or defoliating, needle or foliage cutting.
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SEPTEMBER 2010  SUMMER / AUTUMN
4
SAT   SBS: Fertilizer. Types of fertilizers when and how often.
5
SUN   SABE: TBA.
7
TUE    PBS: NEW CLUB YEAR BEGINS: Welcome New Members, Club Business Review, and Show of Trees.
NOTE: all members need to pay their membership dues for the 2010/2011 season at the meetings during this month.
14
TUE    PBS: Education talk on bonsai by Ken Roberts.
18
SAT   SBS: Nursery Crawling: Visit Hozy McCarter Nursery â?? Green Desert Bonsai from 10 a.m. - noon or 1 p.m. Go to lunch together (optional, location to be determined).
19
SUN   TBS: Workshop Time Only. No Discussions. Just time to bring in those trees and work, work, work. What a Great Idea!!!
21 TUE    PBS: Open workshop time and raffle.
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OCTOBER 2010  AUTUMN
2
SAT   SBS: Group/Forest planting.
3
SUN   SABE: TBA.
5
TUE    PBS: Club Business, Formal Show of Trees, and Clothing Order.
9
SAT   PBS: Nursery Crawl, location TBA.
12
TUE   PBS: Demonstration on Pines by Jamie Sims.
Oct 15 - Nov 7
(Mondays & Tuesdays closed)
FRI - SUN   PBS: Club Display @ Arizona State Fair, 19th Avenue & McDowell Road.  Members may deliver trees to the Home Arts building near the south end of the fairgrounds on Oct. 14 - Contact Elsie Andrade at (602) 995-3870 for info.  Fair and display run through Nov. 7, on which day displayed trees must be picked up starting at 4:00 pm.  Fair is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays this year.
16
SAT   SBS: Care of Bonsai. (Placement, watering, spraying, weeding and cleaning, and winter care).
19
TUE   PBS: Fall Junk Sale and open workshop time.
24
SUN   TBS: Annual Potluck and Swap 'N Shop (Featuring an Auction by Colonel Dave).
28 - 31
THU - SUN      Golden State Bonsai Federation's 33nd Convention in Santa Clara, California.
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NOVEMBER 2010  AUTUMN
2
TUE    PBS: Club Business and Critique of Trees.
6
SAT   SBS: Rock planting.
7
SUN   SABE: TBA.
9
TUE    PBS: Demonstration on Forest Planting by Frank Harris.
13 - 14
SAT - SUN    PBS: Workshop with Sensei Ben Oki at Baker's Nursery with demo and display of trees.  All club members are encouraged to participate.  The cost for the work shop is $40.00 first tree and $30.00 for a second tree.  All participants must supply your own plant material.  Observers are welcome $25.00 covers both days.
16 TUE    PBS: General raffle and open workshop time.
20
SAT   SBS: Tools and Equipment. Care and maintaining tools.
21
SUN   TBS: Open critique by Everyone. Bring in those special trees and TBS member will critique each other?s trees.
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DECEMBER 2010  WINTER
3 - 4
FRI - SAT   SBS: 1st Annual Bonsai Show with Kathy Shaner for two days & Seminar, Demo, and Workshop. Event is open to all Bonsai Societies - Phoenix, Tucson & Payson.
5
SUN   SABE: TBA.
5
SUN  TBS: ANNUAL HOLIDAY GATHERING AND ANNUAL MEETING WITH ELECTIONS.
7
TUE    PBS: Club Business and Formal Show of Trees.
14
TUE    PBS: Demonstration on Scroll Making by Cheryl Sykora.
18
SAT   SBS: Christmas Carol. Raffle and gifts.
21
TUE    PBS: HOLIDAY PARTY, location to be announced.

HAPPY  HOLIDAYS  TO  ALL !
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JANUARY 2011  WINTER
1
SAT    A SAFE, PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! 
1
SAT   SBS: NO MEETING.
2
SUN   SABE: TBA.
4
TUE    PBS: Club Business and Critique Of Trees.
8
SAT   SBS: Christmas Tree workshop
11
TUE    PBS: Demonstration on Pruning Bonsai by Mike Apostolos.
16
SUN  TBS: TBA.
18
TUE    PBS: Open workshop time.
19
WED    PBS: Workshop/critique with Ted Matson.
22
SAT   SBS: Trip to Tucson Bonsai Society.
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FEBRUARY 2011  SPRING
1
TUE    PBS: Club Business and Formal Show of Trees.
3
GUNG HEY FAT CHOY :  A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS YEAR OF THE RABBIT TO YOU AND YOURS!
(The Rabbit can be sensitive, tactful. home-loving, refined, prudent, discreet, long-living, ambitious, cultured, well-mannered, artistic, considerate, scholarly, suave, graciously hospitable, modest and unimpeachably virtuous.
The Rabbit can also be snobbish, secretive, pedantic, complicated, haughtily indifferent, self-indulgent, hypochondriacal, punctilious, judgemental, self-righteous, deceptive, self-centred and terminally condescending.)
5
SAT   SBS: Understanding roots.
6
SUN   SABE: TBA.
8
TUE    PBS: Demonstration on Group Planting by Joan McCarter.
15
TUE    PBS: Open workshop time with a raffle.
19
SAT   SBS: Chinese New Year celebration & Plant Show at a Library (TBD).
20
SUN   TBS: TBA.
26 - 27
SAT - SUN    PBS: MATSURI, the largest annual show as part of the Japan Festival @ Heritage Square, 6th and Monroe Streets near downtown Phoenix.   Free Admission.  Nominal fee parking in the parking garage just to the west.  Set up under the large Lath House at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday; take down around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.  Includes at least one demonstration and a raffle of a tree.  Again, every Arizona club member is invited to bring a tree or two or three.  This 2-day event is a Japanese Celebration and also is well attended and another excellent opportunity to show and talk about the Art of Bonsai.  This is another great time to bring your Show Quality (trees trimmed, soil cleaned up, pots oiled) Bonsai for display.  You can bring your own stand or the Club has many to choose from.  This is also a great time to volunteer to help set-up, take-down and work the booths at these shows.  Spending time in the booths is one of the best educational and learning experiences you can take advantage of and for no cost at all.  Talking to the Club Mentors and other Club Members with their years of experience is one of the best ways to advance and enhance your knowledge for the Art of Bonsai.  You all have a tree that can be ready for the Show - start working on it and join in the events.   You say your trees still aren't ready yet?  Repeat after me: "My trees will never look better than when they're on display next to other members' trees."  Bring 'em down and hang out with us.  (Review our thoughts on displaying.)
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MARCH 2011  SPRING
1
TUE    PBS: Club Business and Critique of Trees.
4 - 6
FRI - SUN    PBS: Club display at Flower & Garden Show at Cardinals' Stadium.
5
SAT   SBS: TBA.
6
SUN   SABE: TBA.
8
TUE    PBS: Demonstration on Fertilizing Bonsai by Jim McEown.
15
TUE    PBS: Open workshop time.
20
SUN   TBS: TBA.
20
SAT   SBS: TBA.
24 - 27
THU - SUN     California Bonsai Society Show at Huntington Botanical Gardens and visits to selected bonsai nuseries in the L.A. area.
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APRIL 2011  SPRING
2
SAT   SBS: TBA.
3
SUN   SABE: TBA.
5
TUE    PBS: Club Business and Formal Show of Trees.
9
SAT    PBS: First annual bonsai show at the Valley Garden Center.
12
TUE    PBS: Demonstration on Desert Bonsai by Tom Gatz.
16
SAT   SBS: TBA.
17
SUN  TBS: TBA.
16
SAT    PBS: Art in the Garden at Berridge Nursery.
19
TUE    PBS: Spring Junk Sale and open workshop time.
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MAY 2011  SPRING / SUMMER
1
SUN   SABE: TBA.
3
TUE    PBS: Club Business and Critique of Trees.
7
SAT   SBS: TBA.
10
TUE    PBS: Annual auction of donated member bonsai, pots, tools, etc.
14
SAT   SBS: TBA.
15
SUN  TBS: TBA.
17
TUE    PBS: Lecture on Summer Care by Kerry Boehmer.
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JUNE 2011  SUMMER
4
SAT   SBS: TBA.
5
SUN   SABE: TBA.
16 - 19
THU - SUN      Bonsai in the Bluegrass: Joint BCI/ABS Convention in Louisville, KY.
18
SAT   SBS: TBA.
19
SUN   TBS: TBA.
?
SAT    PBS: Year-end party.
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JULY 2011  SUMMER
2
SAT   SBS: SUMMER RECESS -- NO MEETING.
3
SUN   SABE: NO MEETING.
16
SAT   SBS: Once-monthly summer meeting for July.
17
SUN   TBS: TBA.
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AUGUST 2011  SUMMER
6
SAT   SBS: SUMMER RECESS -- NO MEETING.
7
SUN   SABE: TBA.
20
SAT   SBS:
21 SUN   TBS: TBA.

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