Sergio Luciani will perform a BYOT workshop at our regular meeting place. Sergio Luciani is a Graphic Design professional born in Buenos Aires Argentina on October 20, 1969. He had no familiarity with Bonsai until 1999, when he enrolled in a basic course taught by Marita Gurruchaga. While serving as his teacher, Ms Gurruchaga also became his partner and friend.

As is our new format, we will first work on trees and take advantage of the greatly talented teachers in our club. Bring anything you are working on. Around 10 o'clock we will have our raffle and a short business meeting to discuss the details of our Annual Show in November. Our new venue for the show will be at the Berne Davis park just north of the Edison-Ford estate.

This newsletter discusses the details of our next meeting on Saturday, August 20, a visit by Sergio Luciani on September 13, our upcoming annual Bonsai Show and Sale on November 5 and 6, a special event with Pedro Morales on August 27 in Tampa, FL and in-depth article on Bonsai photography by Sam Ogranaja.

The August meeting main program will highlight judging techniques and what judges look for. From 9 to 10: If you can, bring two trees with you, one to work on from 9 to 10 and a second “finished” tree to discuss during the 11-12 hour. From 10 to 11: Raffle, Show and Tell, Business Meeting. The main program will be from 11 to 12. Learning how to judge a tree.

Robert Steven will be at Wigert's all weekend doing workshops. Please go to: http://wigertsbonsai.com/event/robert-steven-from-indonesia-workshops/ for details.

Here is the Bonsai Newsletter for June 2016. Phil Krieg has come up with a new format that is full of information about our upcoming 2016 Exhibit plans, comments about our growing Library, and notes from our latest club meeting. Phil has also passed on an article by Mary Miller who writes about "How is your Wiring" with a link to Colin Lewis' website on wiring essentials.