Here is a link to pictures of the 18th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival.
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Saturday, 12 noon, August 28, 2010 -
Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team
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Matthew English, Bamboo Artisan
Bamboo Festival Presenters (times to be announced)
Matthew English is a Permaculture designer, ecological educator, and bamboo artisan. Matthew has been working with growing and crafting bamboo since 1998. He has studied with Adam and Sue Turtle of the Bamboo Institute TN, and with bamboo artisans in China. He has been involved in workshops ranging from Japanese bamboo baskets, bamboo construction, identification and propagation, and bamboo furniture crafting. Matthew and his wife Jennifer live at their sustainable research farm Solar Springs, located in Lewis County TN. Through Solar Springs Matthew provides private workshops, local demonstrations, and crafts a variety of bamboo and wood furniture, trellises and spoons.
Mike Jones makes several different styles of flutes: Japanese
shakuhachi, Native American plains style, Anasazi style, Papago style,
Hopi style, South American Andes quena, ocarinas, conventional
transverse; a few percussion instruments. - Discussion and Demonstrations
Mike Jones, Bamboo Flutemaker
Mike Jones Playing Bamboo Flute
Bamboo Arrows made by Jack Farrell
Exhibitor: Jack Farrell - Bamboo Bow and Arrow Maker
Bamboo arrows made by Jack Farrell
Additional Presentations & Events
David Glover - "Bamboo - The Plant"
Carole Meckes - "Beginning With Bamboo - Bamboo Brains..."
Annual Meeting of the Texas Bamboo Society
Silent and Live Auction
Vendors:
Varner Creek Nursery - Clumping Bamboo, Citrus & Fruit Trees, Bromeliads email Duckie and the Grackle - Bamboo & Bird Original Art and Brush Painting
Bamboo Branch - Bamboo Beads & Jewelry - Bamboo Poles, Parts and Pieces, Argentine Musical Instruments by Angel Sampedro del Rio Bamboozle - Handcrafted Bamboo & Bone Jewelry & The Earspear Good Medicine Flutes - Native American Flutes by Patricia Partridge Bamboo Crew - Bamboo countertops and cabinetry Bamboo Bend - Bamboo Plants Simmons Family Farm - Bamboo Plants Tejas Tropicals - Bamboo, Gingers, Heliconia, Colocasia, Banana, Agave, Cycad, & Palms Harjo Flutes - Native American Flutes
Things to bring with you to the 18th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival: The festival will be held outside this year in a new area called the Oak Grove, so dress accordingly so that you will be comfortable. We will have fans blowing to help to keep us cool. If convenient, bring a lawn chair with you as we will have some seating available but do not expect to have enough seating available for everyone. We will have bottled water available - but you are welcome to bring your own bottled beverages. (Food is not permitted in the Botanical Garden.) Extra parking on Stratford Drive will be available after 11 am on Saturday.
The 18th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival is the annual fund raiser for the Texas Bamboo Society Chapter of the American Bamboo Society, a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization. Proceeds are used to provide research, information, education, assistance to public bamboo gardens, support for bamboo artists, and to bring new varieties to the multi-state region represented by the Texas Bamboo Society.
