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n September 16th and 17th, 320 foreign
guests and over 1,000 Chinese penjing
professionals and hobbyists converged on
the ancient two-thousand-year-old city of
OGuangzhou in southeastern China for the
2015 Bonsai Clubs International (BCI) Convention
and Exhibition that took place September 18 to the
21st. The meeting, The Infinity of Bonsai and View-
ing Stones: a Cultural Voyage from Canton to the
World, was a joint affair with the Asia-Pacific Bonsai
and Viewing Stone Association (ASPAC). This major
event was organized by BCI, ASPAC, and the People’s
Government of Guangzhou Municipality with addi-
tional support from six significant sponsors and four
co-organizers. This was a grand affair because of the
broad-based support from organization such as the
Administration of Forestry and Gardening of Guang-
zhou Municipality, the Chinese Society of Landscape
Architecture, the Guangzhou Penjing Association,
BCI-China Program, and the Guangdong Provincial
Viewing Stone Association. The strong financial and
logistical support of the municipal government and
societies contributed to the success of this joint con-
vention.
The venue was the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Park and
adjacent Provincial Science Museum. The impressive,
Qing dynasty-style, eight-sided Sun Yat-Sen Memori-
al Hall served as a backdrop for the outdoor bonsai ex-
hibition on the patio in front of the Hall. Photographs
of many of the winning bonsai from the 2015 BCI
photo contest were also displayed on the patio. The
opening ceremony was staged in the Hall’s 3,000-seat
auditorium. Vendors, offering live plants, pots, stones,
and crafts lined both sides of the walkway leading
to the Hall. Bonsai styling demonstrations, lectures
on viewing stones, and the large display of viewing Right column; Views of
individual trees in the
stones, mainly from Guangdong Province, were held temporary exhibit on the main
in the Provincial Science Museum directly across the courtyard of the Sun Yat-Sen
street from the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Park. Memorial Hall.
Most foreign guests stayed in the nearby Guang- Bottom; Photographs of many
dong Hotel within close walking distance to the park of the award winning trees
and science museum. Lunches and dinner banquets and stones in the 2015 BCI
Photography Contest. These
were held in the Guangdong Hotel. Eliminating the photographs and others will
need for bussing people to and from a venue site was appear in the soon to be
one of the many features of this year’s convention. published Best of BCI-2015 (see
back cover for details).

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