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Our 30th Exhibition C C ALIFORNIA ALIFORNIA A A ISEKI ISEKI K K AI AI Volume 38, Issue 1 January 2020 It was huge success! Everything moved along like a well oiled machine… From set up on December 21st through take down on December 30th, all 30 years of experience truly paid off. We have a dedicated group of members who stepped up and met the challenge of providing the public with an excellent exhibit of fine displays. We can be proud of what we accomplished. Of course, we had some standouts. Those members who provided thoughtful answers and clear explanations as docents, those who encouraged questions and offered enthusiastic support to those who were interested in becoming members, and those who were welcoming and helpful at each stage of the exhibition, were rewarded with what might have been our best exhibit at The Huntington. Everyone noted the synergism between the club exhibit and our collaboration with the AVSRC exhibits. The result was that of a much deeper experience than either would have had alone. We are fortunate to have such a valuable relationship. Another measure of our success is that we gained 20 new members. Welcome Jerry Swindall, Joris Gjata, David Barth, Kate Schumacher, Patti Giggans, Chris Jacobson, Soma Sahai-Srivastava, Bob and Connie Kuhn, Kelly Comras, Ronald Yamaguchi, Sean Campbell, Kary Kramer, Peter Beiersdorfer, Jaan Lepson, Jim Pelling, Taylor Lucas, Dal Nim Kim, Mara Fisher, and Paul Freeman. We look forward to getting to know you and hope you enjoy learning about viewing stones. Finally, thank you all for closing out 2019 on a high note. 2020 holds all the promise of another brilliant year! ~Larry Ragle January 22nd Help set up at 5:30 Party begins at 6:00 Dinner at 6:30 Raffle after that !! Come on the 4th Wednesday, to celebrate the end of another amazing year and the beginning of a new one. Remember this is a potluck so bring a favorite dish to share and utensils with which to serve it. The club will provide all the soft drinks, plates, napkins, flatware, etc., but please bring your appetite and…. 38 years! Party Raffle Remember, this is our annual fundraiser. Please donate anything you think will be appreciated by your fellow club members and be ready to buy lots of raffle tickets. The raffle is a great way to help support all of our club activities. It is also a lot of fun! (You must be a member to participate in the club raffle.) And speaking of supporting our club activities….It is that time of year again... This is a request to you kind folks who get the hard copy of the newsletter who have a computer and could easily be e~subscribers to please rethink your membership needs. The more of you who are e~subscribers, the better for all. We hope you will decide to go green. Save a tree and our precious resources. (If you are saving the newsletter, you can always print it out yourself.) No matter what, we really appreciate your continued support. Thank you. Please send $10 payable to California Aiseki Kai c/o Nina Ragle P.O. Box 4975 Laguna Beach, CA 92652-4975 ALERT: There are 5 Wednesdays this month. The party is on the 4th one! The 22nd. Don’t miss it or we will miss you!! Holiday Party! Dues are Due As he has done for the past two years, Jack Levy will bring many Yuha stones for the raffle. He asked that if you plan to “bring home loot from the raffle” please bring your own wrapping material as he hopes to recycle his packing materials. Thank you.
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Our 30th Exhibition
CC ALIFORNIAALIFORNIA A A ISEKIISEKI K K AIAI Volume 38, Issue 1 January 2020
It was huge success! Everything moved along like a well oiled machine… From set up on December 21st through take down on December 30th, all 30 years of experience truly paid off. We have a dedicated group of members who stepped up and met the challenge of providing the public with an excellent exhibit of fine displays. We can be proud of what we accomplished. Of course, we had some standouts. Those members who provided thoughtful answers and clear explanations as docents, those who encouraged questions and offered enthusiastic support to those who were interested in becoming members, and those who were welcoming and helpful at each stage of the exhibition, were rewarded with what might have been our best exhibit at The Huntington. Everyone noted the synergism between the club exhibit and our collaboration with the AVSRC exhibits. The result was that of a much deeper experience than either would have had alone. We are fortunate to have such a valuable relationship. Another measure of our success is that we gained 20 new members. Welcome Jerry Swindall, Joris Gjata, David Barth, Kate Schumacher, Patti Giggans, Chris Jacobson, Soma Sahai-Srivastava, Bob and Connie Kuhn, Kelly Comras, Ronald Yamaguchi, Sean Campbell, Kary Kramer, Peter Beiersdorfer, Jaan Lepson, Jim Pelling, Taylor Lucas, Dal Nim Kim, Mara Fisher, and Paul Freeman. We look forward to getting to know you and hope you enjoy learning about viewing stones. Finally, thank you all for closing out 2019 on a high note. 2020 holds all the promise of another brilliant year!
~Larry Ragle
January 22nd Help set up at 5:30 Party begins at 6:00 Dinner at 6:30 Raffle after that !!
Come on the 4th Wednesday, to celebrate the end of another amazing year and the beginning of a new one. Remember this is a potluck so bring a favorite dish to share and utensils with which to serve it. The club will provide all the soft drinks, plates, napkins, flatware, etc., but please bring your appetite and….
38 years!
Party Raffle
Remember, this is our annual fundraiser. Please donate anything you think will be appreciated by your fellow club members and be ready to buy lots of raffle tickets. The raffle is a great way to help support all of our club activities. It is also a lot of fun! (You must be a member to participate in the club raffle.) And speaking of supporting our club activities….It is that time of year again...
This is a request to you kind folks who get the hard copy of the newsletter who have a computer and could easily be e~subscribers to please rethink your membership needs. The more of you who are e~subscribers, the better for all. We hope you will decide to go green. Save a tree and our precious resources. (If you are saving the newsletter, you can always print it out yourself.) No matter what, we really appreciate your continued support. Thank you.
Please send $10 payable to California Aiseki Kai c/o Nina Ragle P.O. Box 4975 Laguna Beach, CA 92652-4975
ALERT: There are 5 Wednesdays this month. The party is on the 4th one! The 22nd. Don’t miss it or we will miss you!!
Holiday Party!
Dues are Due
As he has done for the past two years, Jack Levy will bring many Yuha stones for the raffle. He asked that if you plan to “bring home loot from the raffle” please bring your own wrapping material as he hopes to recycle his packing materials. Thank you.
The 1 inch wide inner m
argins are designed for use with a 3 hole punch.
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Scenes from our Exhibition at The Huntington ~ Dec 26 - 30
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Banta Hall
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Ahmanson Classroom
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Special Exhibit: AVSRC celebrates 50 years at The Huntington
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Special Kids Exhibit: The Magic of Mimetoliths and Animal Imagery in Stones
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Collecting in the Yuha ~ Nov 2-3, 2019 24 seekers in 11 cars travelled into the desert. Thanks to our guides, Jack and Marty, everyone had a safe and productive tanseki. The pictures speak for themselves. Saturday it was Jack’s hunting sites and Sunday it was Marty’s, all excellent based on the found stones.
David’s T shirt reads: If sticks and stones break your bones, leave the sticks and take home the stones. The back reads like a rock band’s tour dates with 2 years of history of Aiseki Kai in the Yuha.
It looks like everyone wanted to go over “there”.
Uyen got stuck, briefly….
Lunch in the desert: Chili dogs compliments of Aaron and Jack. Yum!
Uyen
Kyra, Warren and Aaron
Kyra and Warren enjoy the quiet of the Yuha
Buzz likes the pool in his stone
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Ginger and Art Kyra and Warren
Uyen and AiLan brought this special cake Phil got a prize for most popular stone. Thank you, Marty.
Members sharing libations, stones and opinions…. Debra, David, Blake and Wanda
Wanda showed both sides of her Yuha stone.
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Janet and Phil Uyen and AiLan
Marty
Brad
Jesse
Larry
Neil
Buzz
Aaron
After breakfast, Marty led us to a new location under some power lines. It was easy walking and most folks found keepers. Below: Marty and Phil and David share a few favorites. If you didn’t have all the fun, you just weren’t trying.
Marty’s Above: Phil Below: David
January Contributors: Larry Ragle. Mailing: Flash Partch Editor: Nina Ragle
Contact People
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Newsletter Committee
We hope you will participate. Please send any submissions to [email protected] no more than 10 days following our monthly meeting. Thank you!
California Aiseki Kai meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 7:30 pm at the Nakaoka Community Center located at 1670 W. 162nd St, Gardena, CA. Second floor. We do not meet in Nov-Dec.
Programs: Larry Ragle 949.497.5626 [email protected] Treasury/Membership: Nina Ragle 949.497.5626 [email protected] Annual Exhibit: Jim Greaves 310.452.3680 [email protected] Exhibit Set Up: Marty Hagbery 909-257-9559 Refreshments: Janet Shimizu 310.822.6012 [email protected] Beverages: Jack Levy 626.794-4572 [email protected] Historian: Ray Yeager 760.365.7897 [email protected] Webmail: Chris Cochrane 804.918.4636 [email protected]
Aiseki Kai Members, We will be ordering the 7th Nippon Suiseki Association Exhibition Catalog very soon. If you want to order a copy, please contact Nina ASAP. We are not getting any extra copies “just in case”.
In The Mailbox
Tom Goldbaum, from Bethesda MD, sent these two pictures of his bison stone that he collected in Wyoming. In another view it becomes a rabbit. Sean Smith made both daiza. Bison: 4 x 3 x 1.5, Rabbit: 3 x 4 x 1.5
Chuck Barker sent this photo he took of a collecting spot he is taking advantage of in Namibia. Chuck tries to hunt stones wherever he goes and he goes to a lot of places! It looks like fun. We wonder what he found there.
Ragle P.O. Box 4975 Laguna Beach CA 92652
Coming Events
Leaves no stone unturned
ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED
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We are looking forward to all the lovely, waist expanding goodies you will bring to our Annual Holiday Party. In addition to your favorite dish, please bring a serving utensil and your appetite. Please sign up with our refreshment chair, Janet Shimizu, for the 2020 snack buffets. What would a meeting be without a major calorie break? Unimaginable.
Check Golden Statements Magazine digital issue at gsbfbonsai.org for additional coming events
Stone Sales Ken McLeod suisekistones.com
Freeman Wang 626-524-5021 stores.ebay.com/thestoneking
Refreshments
BAIKOEN BONSAI KENKYUKAI 56th Annual Exhibition, “Winter Silhouettes”, January 18-19 at the LA Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. 10-4:30. Demos both days, 1:00. Beautiful deciduous trees. Sales. Aiseki Kai display. Reception January 18th, 6:30-9:00. Email Ken Teh at [email protected]
Dues are Due. Become an e~subscriber and save a tree: Send $10 to California Aiseki Kai c/o Nina Ragle P.O. Box 4975 Laguna Beach, CA 92652-4975
BONSAI-A-THON XXI GSBF Collection at The Huntington Fundraiser, Feb 22-23, 2020. Huntington Botanical Center. 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, 8:00-4:30. This is a fundraiser so bring donations! Please continue to support the Southern California Bonsai and Viewing Stone Collection. For more information, go to: gsbfhuntington.com/bonsai-a-thon
CALIFORNIA AISEKI KAI Tanseki in the Yuha. Save the dates! March 14-15, 2020. Details in the February Newsletter.
