16th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival Aug 23-24, 2008 Austin, TX

[Carole]

The 16th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 23-24, 2008 at Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin, Texas. Festival hours are Saturday 10 am - 6 pm and Sunday 10 am - 5 pm. On Saturday evening, there will be a Dinner at the garden center.

The festival will include a Live Bamboo Plant and Object Auction on Saturday afternoon, presentations on bamboo and two full days of bamboo activities with bamboo plants and crafts for sale and show. Please check the festival website http://www.bamboocentral.net for schedule updates and more details.
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The Texas Bamboo Society is also looking for festival sponsors:
http://www.bamboocentral.net/16thfestival/sponsors.html
Sponsors will be listed on the website and on the festival program.
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Presentations - Saturday, August 23, 2008

10:30 am: A Video Presentation about the works of Japanese Artist Tanaka Kyokusho - produced by David Douglas Stewart- Tanaka Kyokusho, is a bamboo artist and a bamboo basket maker. The video is about his work and shows how he makes the fine slivers of bamboo that he uses in his baskets. (this may be shown more than once)

12:30 pm: "Rivercane Mats and Basketry - Arundinaria Gigantea - Native American Bamboo" - Presentation by Robin McBride Scott, an award winning artist of Cherokee ancestry, who works in Traditional Woodland materials and native American Bamboo. She is the first place recipient of the American Bamboo Society Arts and Craft Award for 2007 for her work with basketry and canebrake (Arundinaria gigantea) bamboo. Robin is a consultant, presenter, and teacher of performing and visual Native arts. She is a 2008 recipient of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Visiting Artist Fellowship.

2 pm: "Landscaping with Running Bamboo" - Using Running Bamboo - in the Landscape and Elsewhere - and Not to be Afraid of it - Presentation by Steve Muzos, President of the Texas Bamboo Society

3 pm: Live Bamboo Plant and Bamboo Object Auction

4 pm: "Light Requirements of Bamboo" - Presentation by Harry Simmons - Harry studied Tropical Horticulture at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand. His thesis focused on evaluating horticultural quality and light requirements of 7 genera and 20 species of bamboo.

5 pm: Annual Meeting of the Texas Bamboo Society

6:15 pm: Dinner Catered by the Bamboo Garden Chinese Restaurant Dinner Reservations Required

Presentations - Sunday, August 24, 2008

10:30 am: A Video Presentation about the works of Japanese Artist Tanaka Kyokusho - produced by David Stewart- Tanaka Kyokusho, is a bamboo artist and a bamboo basket maker. The video is about his work and shows how he makes the fine slivers of bamboo that he uses in his baskets. (this may be shown more than once)

12 noon - Weaving a Cane Mat - Workshop conducted by Robin McBride Scott (registration required - limited to 15 people - workshop fee $100 includes supplies)

12:30 - Clumping Bamboo - Learn about the sympodial (or subtropical clumping) species. Presentation by John Nelson - John, a nurseryman has been growing bamboo for 18 years and has specific experience working with clumping bamboo.

Please check website: http://www.bamboocentral.net for updates to the schedule.

Sale of bamboo plants and crafts continues on Sunday afternoon.

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Lodging:
A block of rooms have been reserved at the Courtyard by Marriott Austin Central, 5660 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78751.

The group rate is $69 for a room with two queen beds. This is a "smokeless facility." This is an excellent rate for this hotel.

To make your reservation, call 1-888-758-0889 or call the hotel directly at 512-458-2340. The group name is "Bamboo Festival".
The rooms will be held until August 8, 2008, so make your reservation soon.
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To date the following bamboo vendors have confirmed:
Spirit Mama - Spun Bamboo Clothing
Waterstones - vases created from stone with bamboo accents email
RM-Collectibles.com - Hand-Made Bamboo Crafts from Mt. Fuji, Japan
Bamboo Branch - Bamboo Beads & Jewelry, Poles, & Pieces
Simmons Family Farms - Bamboo Plants

There is still space for more vendors - here is a link to the vendor application: http://bamboo.home.texas.net/vendor2008.html

Enjoy Bamboo,
Carole Meckes, phone # 512-929-9565

[Mike McG]

The 16th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 23-24, 2008 at Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin, Texas. Festival hours are Saturday 10 am - 6 pm and Sunday 10 am - 5 pm. On Saturday evening, there will be a Dinner at the garden center.

The festival will include a Live Bamboo Plant and Object Auction on Saturday afternoon, presentations on bamboo and two full days of bamboo activities with bamboo plants and crafts for sale and show. Please check the festival website http://www.bamboocentral.net for schedule updates and more details.

Just a reminder that the Texas Bamboo Society's Festival will be held next weekend. As noted in Carole, post above, details are at
http://www.bamboocentral.net

This is also a great chance to visit Zilker and see some of the bamboo other plants that can be grown in Central TX, although August is not the best month for the plants. There are also a lot of palms and cycads in the Hartman Prehistoric Garden. http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/dino.html

Just watch out for the dinosaurs.



Mike near Brenham TX

[Carole]

16th Annual Texas Bamboo Schedule - Sat and Sunday August 23-24, 2008 - Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin, TX
Sat: 10 am - 6 pm Sun 10 am - 5 pm
free admission, parking $3

The Sunday schedule has changed. Here is the current schedule:
Saturday August 23 Presentations
10:30 Video: Tanaka Kyokusho, Japanese Basket Maker
12:30 Rivercane Mats & Basketry, Robin McBride Scott
2:00 Landscaping with Running Bamboo – Steve Muzos
3:00 Live Bamboo Auction Plants and Crafts
4:00 Light Requirements of Bamboo – Harry Simmons
5:00 Annual Meeting of the Texas Bamboo Society
6:00 Dinner - reservations required - Chinese Food
Sunday - August 24 Presentations
10:30 Video: Tanaka Kyokusho, Japanese Basket Maker
12:30 Clumping Bamboo - John Nelson, Bambootexas.com
2:30 Rivercane Mats & Basketry, Robin McBride Scott
Sale of bamboo plants and crafts continues on Sunday afternoon.

Current Vendor List:
Spirit Mama - Spun Bamboo Clothing
Waterstones - vases created from stone with bamboo accents
RM-Collectibles.com - Hand-Made Bamboo Crafts from Mt. Fuji, Japan
Bamboo Branch - Bamboo Beads & Jewelry, Poles, & Pieces, Ocarinas and Flutes
Simmons Family Farms - Bamboo Plants
Bamboo Source - Clumping Bamboo, Black Bamboo
Good Medicine Flutes -Native American Flutes by Patricia Partridge
Bamboo Wrist Watches Houston Associates
Crossroads Bamboo - Bamboo Plants
Perunazca-Illary - Handmade Bamboo Jewelry
Bamboo Canes & Staffs - Charles McPhate
Bamboo Fencing and Yard Furniture - Asian Artique
Bamboo Windchimes, panflutes, recorders, transverse flutes - Jylery

Featured sponsors:
Texas Bamboo Society Chapter of the American Bamboo Society
Kinder and Mary Len Chambers - Donors of Bambusa multiplex 'Fernleaf' and Bambusa multiplex
Steve Muzos - Bronze Sponsor - Bamboo Bend

Partial List of Auction Items: Bamboo Plants:

5gal Bambusa eutuldoides "Viridi Vittata" "Asian Lemon Bamboo" - donated by George Shackelford, Bamboo Source

10 gal Bambusa vulgaris 'Vittata' (also known as Painted Bamboo, Striped Bamboo or Golden Hawaiian Bamboo) - well rooted - donated by Selby Clark

3 gal Chusquea circinata - donated by David Glover, Tejastropicals LLC

3 gal Otatea fimbriata - donated by David Glover, Tejastropicals LLC

5 gal Phyllostachys Bambusoides Castillonis - donated by Julian Andrews

1 gal Phyllostachys vivax 'Huangwenhzu Inversa' - donated by David Glover, Tejastropicals LLC

1 gal Rhipidocladum racemiflorum - donated by David Glover, Tejastropicals LLC

Non Plant Bamboo Items:

Bamboo Tote Bag - donated by Carole Meckes

Bamboo Folding Umbrella - donated by Carole Meckes

Book - "Farming Bamboo" by Daphne Lewis and Carol Miles.
Tells farmers and gardeners what they need to know to raise bamboo as a farm crop. The bamboo is farmed in order to sell bamboo shoots for food and poles for wood. The botany of bamboo is described for a background to making decisions about caring for the bamboo. An encyclopedia describes 27 species of the genus Phyllostachys. - donated by Carole Meckes

Book - "The Craft and Art of Bamboo" by Carol Stangler - donated by Jim Ellinger

Flower vase - donated by Timothy & Elyse Sens, Waterstones

Bamboo Wrist Watch - donated by Buddy Atwell

Spum Bamboo Tee Shirt - donated by Waxela, Spirit Mama

Dragonfly with Stand - donated by Robert & Mitsue Childers, RM-collectibles.com

Silk shirts with bamboo motifs - donated by Steve Muzos, Bamboo Bend

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Lodging:
A block of rooms have been reserved at the Courtyard by Marriott Austin Central, 5660 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78751.

The group rate is $69 for a room with two queen beds. This is a "smokeless facility." This is an excellent rate for this hotel.

To make your reservation, call 1-888-758-0889 or call the hotel directly at 512-458-2340. The group name is "Bamboo Festival".

The rooms will be held until August 18, 2008, so make your reservation soon.
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Please check http://www.bamboocentral.net/16thfestival.html for updates and parking information
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Carole