What the 2006 edition proposes

5^th exhibitions-competitions...

Crespi Bonsai Cup: dedicated to experts and collectors of bonsais who will take part with their masterpieces.
Crespi Shohin Cup: dedicated to experts and collectors of bonsais of small sizes who will take part with their best trees.
Enthusiasts to Confrontation: dedicated to all bonsais amateurs.
Crespi Suiseki Cup: dedicated to all collectors of suisekis, the wonderful landscape stones.
Crespi Pot Cup: dedicated to the collectors of pots and pots masters.

BCI President’s Award

On the occasion of the 7^th International Meeting of Bonsai & Suiseki, the vice-President of the Bonsai Club International, Willi Benz, will award the BCI President's Award, for both the suiseki and the bonsai categories.

One inedited exhibition…

“History of the Japanese postcard in Meiji age”: during the days of the manifestation it will be prepared an exhibition of postcards issued in Japan from 1868 to 1912. Given by Lorenzo Sonzini.

The events

Demonstrations of high bonsai techniques and workshop. To the Crespi Cup the greatest professionals of the field: Shotaro Kawahara from Japan will attempt in spectacular technical demonstrations.
Moreover, Italian experts, among them Luca Bragazzi, Alberto Lavazza, Adriano Nalon and Giampaolo Scoglio will give lectures and didactic laboratories for the enthusiasts.
Suiseki, round table opened to the public: Chiara Padrini assisted from Ezio Piovanelli, Andrea Schenone and Angelo Attinà will give a meeting with the public in order to deepen the knowledge of suiseki and of the world tied to the stones.
Willi Benz, president of the European Suiseki Association, will give guided visits both to the suiseki and bonsai exhibitions.
Meeting with the European artists of bonsai art: the better European artists will challenge each other in order to win themselves, with a technical demonstration in contemporary, the "Crespi Cup Europe". The visitors will have the opportunity to see to work great bonsais professionals.
Meeting with the Italian bonsai schools: the Italian bonsai schools will introduce themselves to the public, through one technical demonstration in contemporary, held from the best students, directed from the teachers responsible of the various Italian scholastic reality.

The guests

Shotaro Kawahara was born in Tokyo in 1942. After he was graduated to the Tokyo Metropolitan Agricultural School, has carried out one series of apprenticeship near the best masters of bonsai, succeeding then to open one own nursery. Many are the bonsai works of master Kawahara made during his long career, some of which realized expressly for the prestigious Kokufu Exhibition. Intuition, manual ability, great aesthetic sense, make the force of this artist, specialized in Prunus mume - Japanese Apricot tree - among the species more fascinating, its fields of interest included also conifers and species from flower and fruit. He holds courses for beginnings and advanced courses, he gives also workshop and demonstrations. He has been guest in various European countries, among which France, Spain, Belgium and Italy. He participated to various conventions that took place in Oriental Countries.

Alain Arnaud, expert of 3rd level of the French Federation of the Bonsai, lives in Bordeaux in France. Passionate of bonsai from more than 10 years, he is known all around Europe.
In 1996 participated to the competition "New European Talent”. Judge of the French Federation, has taken part to various congresses organized from this association and moreover holds courses and workshop. He took part to several congresses in Spain and France. In 2001 he obtained the 1st Prize during the BCI Congress of Monaco.

Robert Barth, was born in 1962 near to Regensburg, in Germany.
He approached the bonsai in 1978 and he began to attend courses and workshop of improvement since 1980. Member of the Bonsaiclub Deutschland is specialized in the cultivation and modelling of Pinus nigra Austriaca. He loves to create natural trees. The bonsai in the years becomes for Robert Barth an important and fundamental part of his life.

Jean-Patrick Jaccard, lives in Curio - Switzerland, where he carries out the architect activity. In 1983 he has begun to approach to the bonsai as self-taught, reading books and magazines. In 1987 he has joined to the Bonsai Club Ticino, where he is still the coordinator. In 1999, after to have completed the 3 years of course of the University of Bonsai of Parabiago (Milan - Italy) with master Kajiwara as teacher, he obtains the certificate of expert bonsaist. He is responsible of the bonsai courses at the Center Bonsai Crespi Serrafiorita of Lugano. Recently he opened "La Corte", one own laboratory of bonsai art.

Born in 1972, Antonio Jesús Fernández Ponce, lives and works in Spain near to Málaga. Professional gardener, specialized in the pruning of the Palms and of the ornamentals trees, has been graduated in 1994. He has begun to take care himself of Bonsai in 1999. After various experiences in the field, he was been designated responsible of the Fuji Kyookai Bonsai School of vanguard - Spanish section. He has held various demonstrations in Spain and now he takes care of the Museum Bonsai of Marbella.

Born near Rotterdam in Holland, Carlos Van der Vaart is an interior designer.
His passion for bonsai was born in 1992, when he began to read books and to attended a Bonsai club.
In 1996 Carlos won the “European New Talent" competition in Monaco - Germany. His works has received various national and international acknowledgments. He gives bonsai courses, workshops and demonstrations all over the Europe. He prefers yamadori, especially conifers and Pine trees. He is member of the "Nippon Bonsai Sakka Kyookai Europe".

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