DONATION TREES
Bring your club and donation plants to the Auditorium of the Palo Alto Art Center on the East side of the building (the side closest to 101).

There is a parking lot at that end of the building and plenty of room for unloading.  You can enter this parking lot directly off Embarcadero or drive around after entering the Newell St. Drive.  If the plants you donate do not sell, you are expected to take them back and care for them for another year.  So, I say if a tree has not sold at three or more shows, it should be put on the raffle table and given a new chance on life. 

The club and donation trees will be priced Friday night.  If you know the price of the plants, then you may tag them yourself.  This would be a big help.

PLANT SALE DONATIONS
The club expects each individual to contribute 3 bonsai plants or related materials (pots, books, etc).  These items should have a sale value of $25 each, or you can give a cash donation of $75.  If you can donate more than three plants it would be appreciated but not required. 

CONSIGNMENT TREES (download the Consignment Form)
You may sell up to 10 of your trees on a consignment basis during the show.  There is a form included with this newsletter.  You may bring your consignment trees Friday night as well, but they should all be listed, tagged, and labeled according to the instructions provided on the consignment sheet.

PLANT SALES
They consist of three different categories of trees: 1) Trees purchased by the club and styled by members, 2) Trees donated and styled by members, 3) Consignment trees where the seller donates part of their profits to the club.

Plant sales will be outside in the Sculpture Garden.  Plants will be brought in Saturday evening.  Help is needed to move the plants.  If need be, we can use this room (the Green Room) for plant sales in case of rain.

SET UP OF DISPLAY AREA
The tables and backdrops will be set up Friday evening and ready to receive trees the following morning. Saturday April 29 starting at 8 AM to noon, show set up.
Bring your three best trees in their clean and oiled pots with your equipment for your display setup.  Show must be complete to open the show at noon. 

DEMONSTRATIONS
Will be at 1:30 PM both days.  We have a separate room in the Art Center for the Demos.  This room is to the right of the front door or to the left of the court yard door.

Sandy Planting will do the Saturday demo and Lonnie McCormick will do the Sunday demo.  Help is requested to set up the room and clean it up afterwards.

Sunday April 30 11 AM to 5 PM
Show continues until 5 PM when we break down the show.

Saturday and Sunday Mornings
We have a lovely kitchen/lunchroom for our hospitality venue.  There is a refrigerator, stove and microwave in the room.  You may bring in your potluck food donation both mornings. 

GRATEFUL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING 
Thoi Nguyen Show Chairman
Bill Scott and Jane Iki, Plant Sales
Rita Curbow, In-Progress room set up
Charlene Fischer, Plant tags for display
Sandy Planting and Lonnie McCormick, Demonstrators
Bang Vo, Signage
Sandy Vrooman, Publicity

Your support of this staff will be appreciated.

LABELS FOR SHOW TREES
Charlene Fischer has volunteered to print the name cards for our trees for the show.  
To help her, please send a list of the trees you plan to show or that you may show.  
We owe her a big THANK YOU for doing this.

The following information is requested:
Trained Since:
Common Name:
Botanical Name:

You may email or phone your list to  charlenerae@mac.com or (650) 856-1734.  

Charlene will do her best to have your labels ready for your trees on the morning of the show.

We have access to the building Friday night.  At this time we can bring in sale plants and do setup.  Saturday morning at 8 am you can start setting up your display.  The display should be completed by 11:30 am for a final walk-through.
A new venue in a lovely setting, and we are back in Palo Alto!

The main show will be in the auditorium at the east end of the building.  We have several rooms and patios reserved for this event (auditorium, Green Room next to auditorium, sculpture garden, conference meeting room, and kitchen).  This new location gives us the opportunity to have a banner at a major Palo Alto intersection.

We hope that this public location close to parks and a library will bring in more foot traffic than our previous location.

We have access to the building beginning Friday night.  At this time we can bring in sale plants and do setup.  Saturday morning at 8 am you can start setting up your display.  The display should be completed by 11:30 am for a final walk-through.