18th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival Schedule Zilker Botanical Garden - Oak Grove Saturday, August 28th, 2010 10:00am Bamboo Festival Opens - Welcome and introduction of Exhibitors and Vendors Silent Auction Begins 12:00pm Lion Dance Dragon Team 12:30pm Annual Membership Meeting/ Election of new board members 1:30pm Mathew English, “Tools and Techniques” 2:45pm Silent Auction Closes 3:00pm David Glover, “Bamboo-The Plant” 4:00pm Annual Bamboo Live Auction 6:00pm Festival closes 7:30pm Dinner (on your own) (suggested locations to be announced) Sunday, August 29th, 2010 8:00am Board of Directors Meeting - Oak Grove (all members invited to attend) 10:00am Festival reconvenes 11:00am Mathew English, “Bamboo Design and Joinery” 1:30pm Mike Jones, “Bamboo Flute Making – Discussion and Demonstration” 2:30pm Carole Meckes, “Beginning with Bamboo – Bamboo Brains” 5:00pm Festival ends.