3rd African Bonsai Convention 2011

The 3rd
African Bonsai Convention
2011
Durban, South Africa

Dates: 22nd Thursday - 26th Monday September 2011
Venue: The Gateway, Durban, South Africa
International Headliners: Robert Steven, Bill Valavanis
Hosted by: KWANBA,The KZN Bonsai Association in association with the African Bonsai Association and WBFF.

Bank Account Details
Bank = Nedbank
Nedbank Account = ABC3 Convention
Account Number 1314139703
Branch Name = Argyle Road
Branch Code = 131426

Bank account queries email internode@iafrica.com or
fax 0865047831

Postal Address
PO Box 39533
Queensburgh
4070

Links

KwaZulu-Natal Tourism Authority
About Durban
KZN Tourism
Fanagalo - More about KZN
Our tour suggestions
Walter Pall/BMW Exhibition - July 2010

Maximize your trip!

Choose from a wide range of optional additional holiday packages:

See the real Big 5 in KwaZulu-Natal’s world famous game reserves.
Bask in the spring sunshine on Durban’s beautiful beaches.
Tour the precious and semi-precious jewel industries.

Click here for more info regarding tours and costs.

Join us on an African Bonsai Safari!

We take great pleasure in inviting you to join us in a celebration of African Bonsai. Not only will you be treated to two very auspicious international guest speakers, Robert Steven and Bill Valavanis, a host of local experts will also be on show.

Costs
Early Bird Before 1st June 2011 - R980 per delegate if delegate is a member of SABA,
ie he or she belongs to any SABA affiliated club.
Non SABA members - R1200

Everybody registering after 31st May 2011 - R1500

Workshops - R300 per person restricted to 10 people per workshop

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Our Headliners

Robert Steven (Indonesia)

Robert Steven was born in North Sumatra in 1958. He started creating and collecting bonsai in 1979, and currently has a permanent exhibit center where he displays his bonsai collection of over 300 in a wide variety of species. He is a keen promoter of "Shushe Penjing," "Shuihan Penjing" and "Chinese Rock Penjing," as well as of expressionistic and surrealistic bonsai styles. In creating a bonsai or penjing, Robert believes that "we should involve our emotion to express our character and message in order to give the 'soul' to the tree."


The incredible art of Robert Steven.

Bill Valavanis (USA) - 46 years bonsai experience

Bill's interest in bonsai started very early for him. He began lecturing to garden clubs in the Charleston, West Virginia area when he was only sixteen. In 1970, Bill went to Japan to begin his bonsai studies in earnest. There he studied with Kyuzo Murata, Toshio Kawamoto, Kakutaro and bonsai chrysanthemums with Tameji Nakajima. To learn more about Japanese design and line, he studied with the Shofu School of Ikebana and received a master's teaching certificate. Bill graduated from the State University of New York at Farmingdale in 1971, majoring in Ornamental Horticulture.