by John Callaway

The American Bonsai Society (ABS) and Bonsai Clubs International (BCI) have agreed to allow the Greater Louisville Bonsai Society to host a joint ABS/BCI Learning Seminar in Louisville, June 2011. This will take a lot of planning and organization to make a successful seminar.

In June 2007, the ABS Learning Seminar was held in Virginia Beach. This installment of the ABS Learning Seminar was dubbed "Bonsai on the Beach", as it was hosted in a resort hotel literally on the beach. Along those same lines we will be taking suggestions for naming of the ABS/BCI 2011 seminar in Louisville. Please have submissions in by Monday, February 18th 2008.

We are still very much in the planning stages for the seminar. Below you will find a proposed list of committees. If you have any experience with a specific field or any interest in helping with a particular group, please let us know. We will start forming these committees in the next few months. Regular meetings will be scheduled to help through the planning stages.

Proposed Committees

• Publicity/Advertising
• Registration/Hospitality
• Facilities/Security
• Vendors
• Auction/Raffle
• Exhibition
• Teachers