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Previews

of the BCI

International

Convention

2018 in

Mulhouse,

France

By François Jeker, France
Photos courtesy François Jeker

et in Alsace, close to the Swiss and German
borders, the BCI Convention and Wine Tour
(see page 50) in 2018 promises to be the event
of the year. BCI has invited 12 international
Sdemonstrators that are known for their special
skills and their focus on bonsai and viewing stone
education.
More than 200 bonsai and 100 suiseki will be
presented at the convention in Mulhouse next
October 12–14.
Thirty of these bonsai will be exhibited from
October 4–14 in a very special display featuring
computer-controlled dynamic lighting effects.
A much-anticipated Quadrennial Event
The Parc Expo Mulhouse organizes a huge bonsai
exhibition every four years that has become the most
important bonsai event in Europe. European bonsai
lovers call this event «the olympic games of bonsai».
One of the presentations—which does not follow
the Japanese rules at all— has made an international
reputation for its creativity. The lighting replicates
the sun’s path on the bonsai trees from dawn to dusk.
Visitors are sometimes moved to tears.
In 2014, the backdrop for the trees, were Land’Art
photographs created by François Jeker.
In 2018, as part of the BCI Congress, 30 bonsai will
be exhibited in this dynamic way.

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