The Bonsai Society - Kalamazoo

PO Box 604

SCHOOLCRAFT MI  49087

Phone: (616) 679-4920

 

 

Aims - Activities - Membership - Meetings

 

The Bonsai Society-Kalamazoo (BS-K) is a nonprofit, educational organization whose aim is to promote knowledge, appreciation, enjoyment, and interest in the ancient Oriental arts of Japanese bonsai and Chinese penjing.  It is affiliated with the American Bonsai Society (ABS), the MidAmerican Bonsai Alliance (MABA), Bonsai Clubs International (BCI); and the National Bonsai Foundation, Washington, D.C.

 

The BS-K usually, but not always, meets the second Sunday of each month (except August & December) from 2:00-5:00 pm at Kalamazoo Valley Community Collage. Texas Township Campus 6767 W. “O” Ave. just south of I-94. Go in the main entrance under the towers.  Visitors are always welcome.

 

Activities include: demonstrations, workshops, and beginners & advanced classes; slide & video shows; guest lectures & round-table discussions; regular show-n-tell sessions; auction of bonsai materials & plants; a circulating club library; field trips; a monthly newsletter; and the organization of public bonsai/penjing shows.  For example, in 1998, the BS-K hosted the national American Bonsai Society's annual symposium at the Kalamazoo Radisson Plaza Hotel.

 

Membership in the BS-K is $15 per person; $20 per family; or $10 per student.  Please consider joining and participating in this unusual art form that helps promotes our appreciation of both nature and beauty.