Now we have pretty a couple of news to fragment about this twelve months’s match! I’ll provide the highlights beneath and will prepare up with extra detailed recordsdata over the approaching months.
First up, we’ll be internet hosting the match at a…
Unique Venue!
For the 2024 Pacific Bonsai Expo we’ll be bright the match to a brand original venue: the Henry J. Kaiser Heart for the Arts in Oakland, California.
The venue is positioned subsequent door to the Oakland Museum on the shores of Lake Merritt, correct all the absolute top contrivance thru the lake from the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt.
The board decided to construct to transfer to fulfill the community’s desire for an expanded match. We’re currently engaged on discover how to easiest take excellent thing in regards to the further design and will fragment well-known aspects when they’re on hand.
Eastern maple by Andrew Robson
Photo courtesy Julian Tsai
Parking
The venue has little parking on place. The present notion is to sell parking passes sooner than time so you might presumably well well presumably notion your time out accordingly.
There is further parking subsequent door on the Oakland Museum, and the venue is positioned one block away from the Lake Merritt BART situation. We strongly befriend carpooling and utilizing hurry fragment companies and products when capacity.
Most smartly-appreciated Hotel
The official hotel for the match will be equivalent to last time, the Hilton Home Emeryville. To quality for the team payment, which includes discounted parking, reserve your room online with this hyperlink or name (510) 601-5880 and use team code “G-PBSE”.
Unique Distributors
We’re pleased to thunder that we have further design for vendors in the original venue! Whenever you are drawn to becoming a seller, ship me a describe indicating your passion in merchandising and the selection of 6′ tables you’d desire to reserve.
We notion to construct the final option of which vendors will be ready to participate in March. Though this twelve months’s seller design is increased, we question of we might presumably well well now no longer be ready to accommodate all requests due to design barriers. Our preference criteria, as it became last twelve months, will be to determine vendors that offer internet site visitors with a combination of bushes, containers, and affords that pork up the objectives of the Expo: to construct, to love, and to say ravishing bonsai.
Call for Submissions
Whenever you are planning to put up one or extra of your bushes for consideration, the submission length will race from February 1st thru April thirtieth. The contributors of the jury (extra on that soon!) will resolve which bushes will be well-liked for say on the say.
It’s free to put up, so we befriend all individuals who wants to participate to begin preparing their submissions. A couple of adjustments from last twelve months:
- There’ll be original judging categories (well-known aspects coming soon)
- Exhibitors are little to exhibiting no extra than three entries
- In case your tree appeared in the first Expo, it’s ineligible for say until the third Expo in 2026. Award profitable bushes will be eligible for say on the fourth Expo in 2028.
We’ll have lots extra facts about preparing submissions in the approaching weeks so stay tuned!
Label Sales
We’re quiet working in the attend of the scenes on the well-known aspects and will thunder a date for tag gross sales in the approaching months so be on the lookout for additional well-known aspects right here, on the Expo websites, or on Instagram/Fb. For the time being, you might presumably well well presumably…
Put the Date
The second Pacific Bonsai Expo will be held on October 26-27, 2024. Setup will be on Thursday the twenty fourth and Friday the twenty fifth. We hope to examine out you there!
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