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Our 29th Exhibition C C ALIFORNIA ALIFORNIA A A ISEKI ISEKI K K AI AI Volume 37, Issue 1 January 2019 We heard it over and over again… this exhibit could have been our best. The quality of the stones took a step forward and of course, the quality of the displays was much improved with Jim Greaves curatorial skill. That man can turn a pig’s ear into a silk purse! There is always room for growth when it comes to display and it is hoped that will be part of our focus during the coming year. We saw a lot of improvement in the suiban displays this year in particular which require quite a bit of thought and can be challenging. One thing needs to be acknowledged and cannot be overstated and that is the ability of our amazing members to shine when the need arises. Everyone really upped their game during the exhibition. From set-up day to your participation as security and docent during the week and finally to the hectic business of taking down and packing up the show. Set-up was smooth and take down was seamless. Although I was unable to participate, I watched and you were all wonderful and we so appreciate that! Some folks were a stand out: Marty Hagbery, Marge Blasingame, Jack Levy, Aaron Finkbiner, Fred Morris, Debra and David Melitz, Don Kruger, come to mind. Janet Shimizu and Jack Levy kept the supplies coming, Linda Gill kept us in line, Uyen Truong provided the labels and Jack Levy, David Melitz, Phil Hogan and Al Nelson offered daiza demonstrations. We had so many helpers I cannot list them for fear of omitting a name but you know who you are! Thank you all. We would like to welcome our 14 newest members: Rosalie Elder, Gary Fisher, Ninh Huu Hiep, Bruce and Paula Jones, Fran and Sabreen Lyman, Laurie Olson, Ivonne Quintanilla, William and Kellie Sepulveda, Amy Tung and Michael Liu, and Kate Zankowicz. We hope that you will enjoy your membership and we look forward to your participation. ~Larry Ragle Holiday Party January 23rd 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…. Dues are Due 37 years! 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... Party Raffle 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 23rd. Don’t miss it or we will miss you!!
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Our 29th Exhibition
CC ALIFORNIAALIFORNIA A A ISEKIISEKI K K AIAI Volume 37, Issue 1 January 2019
We heard it over and over again… this exhibit could have been our best. The quality of the stones took a step forward and of course, the quality of the displays was much improved with Jim Greaves curatorial skill. That man can turn a pig’s ear into a silk purse! There is always room for growth when it comes to display and it is hoped that will be part of our focus during the coming year. We saw a lot of improvement in the suiban displays this year in particular which require quite a bit of thought and can be challenging. One thing needs to be acknowledged and cannot be overstated and that is the ability of our amazing members to shine when the need arises. Everyone really upped their game during the exhibition. From set-up day to your participation as security and docent during the week and finally to the hectic business of taking down and packing up the show. Set-up was smooth and take down was seamless. Although I was unable to participate, I watched and you were all wonderful and we so appreciate that! Some folks were a stand out: Marty Hagbery, Marge Blasingame, Jack Levy, Aaron Finkbiner, Fred Morris, Debra and David Melitz, Don Kruger, come to mind. Janet Shimizu and Jack Levy kept the supplies coming, Linda Gill kept us in line, Uyen Truong provided the labels and Jack Levy, David Melitz, Phil Hogan and Al Nelson offered daiza demonstrations. We had so many helpers I cannot list them for fear of omitting a name but you know who you are! Thank you all.
We would like to welcome our 14 newest members: Rosalie Elder, Gary Fisher, Ninh Huu Hiep, Bruce and Paula Jones, Fran and Sabreen Lyman, Laurie Olson, Ivonne Quintanilla, William and Kellie Sepulveda, Amy Tung and Michael Liu, and Kate Zankowicz. We hope that you will enjoy your membership and we look forward to your participation.
~Larry Ragle
Holiday Party
January 23rd 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….
Dues are Due
37 years!
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...
Party Raffle
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 23rd. Don’t miss it or we will miss you!!
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Here are some random scenes of visitors enjoying the show. We had a steady flow throughout the 5 days...
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Scenes from our Exhibition at The Huntington ~ Dec 26 - 30
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Collecting in the Yuha ~ Nov 3-4, 2018
Janet Cass and Aaron Finkbiner
Richard Aguirre, Wanda Matjas and Larry Ragle Warren Haussler, Jim Greaves and Don Kruger
Marty and Brad Hagbery Jesse Krong (He made a daiza and showed this stone at our exhibit.)
Marty’s animal shaped or potential landscape stone. Marty’s buffalo
After a day in the desert, everyone likes a wine & pizza party.
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Gabe and Linda Gonzalez family. After breakfast it was time to head out for another Yuha day!
Below: Even monkeys fall out of trees! Brad Hagbery is an expert but look what happened to him! Fortunately his talent and his 4WD got him out in short order.…. Phew! (Oops! Your editor took too many pictures facing the sun, my bad. They didn’t come out.)
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Don Kruger’s Yuha Adventure It is possible that Don found more than his share of excellent stones! Of course, most others did as well which always makes for a wonderful tanseki. Don was able to display his recent finds at The Huntington Exhibition after less than 2 months. No aging of these stones was necessary! Don and all of us were fortunate to have a perfect location scout in Jack Levy (and Don knows a thing or two about that). Thanks to Marty Hagbery, we were all safe, a serious priority. Here are a couple of Don’s stones in the field.
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Here are Don’s most excellent displays of his newest stones. One began as a landscape until Don turned it over and saw something else. Now it presents as an animal figure.
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We invite everyone – bonsai novices, enthusiasts and experts to our annual fundraising event on behalf of the
Golden State Bonsai Federation Collection at The Huntington. Find us at The Huntington, The Brody Botanical Center
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, California.
Please bring your bonsai related item to donate to the raffle, auction and sale area.
There will be no consignment sales this year, only donated items. Please contact GSBF Collection at The Huntington Chair, Ellen Keneshea,
through our website contact form, if you have any questions.
Hours: General Public 10:00am - 5:00pm GSBF Early Bird Passes & Aiseki Kai Members 7:30am - 5:00pm
Bonsai-A-Thon XXIII
Saturday & Sunday, February 23rd & 24th, 2019
ABOUT THE BONSAI-A-THON:
The Bonsai-A-Thon is the annual fund raising event for the GSBF Collection at The Huntington. The Bonsai-A-Thon is held on the last weekend in the month of February. The event has been expanding since inception. Each year you can expect 20 plus vendors selling pots, finished bonsai, raw bonsai stock, tools, akadama, scoria, accessories, and suiseki (viewing stones). Each day you can expect four to five demonstrators working in an inviting setting allowing you to ask questions and to get to know each expert. They are picked not only from Southern California, but from the state at large and when available nationally known demonstrators will participate as well. The trees from these demonstrations are auctioned at the end of the day. Along with the auction a large benefit drawing is held daily.
Aiseki Kai Members, The Huntington has been very good to us so let’s return the favor and support them, too.
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 6th 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”.
Ice and Stone: Suiseki Viewing Stones and Hokkaido Landscape Photography
The Portland Japanese Garden 611 SW Kingston Ave, Portland, OR 97205 Hours: Monday: Noon-4pm Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-4pm Admission: Adult: $16.95 Senior (65+): $14.50
Abegawa taki ishi
The Huntington Library is providing its first major loan exhibition drawn from the American Viewing Stone Resource Center collections. Selected to serve as an introduction to stone appreciation, the exhibit consists of a visual mix of about 70 stones: 40 % Japanese suiseki and 60% American Viewing Stones. The stones will be shown along with a selection of black and white photographs of Hokkaido landscapes by Seattle photographer Michael Kenna, as Portland Japanese Garden celebrates 2019 as The Year of Hokkaido.
The Exhibit opens to the public on Saturday, February 9th. The greater part of the exhibit runs until March 24th; there will be a small extended display in the Tanabe Gallery through April 7th.
Jim Greaves, The Huntington curator of viewing stones, is due to give a short lecture, date TBA.
Ragle P.O. Box 4975 Laguna Beach CA 92652
BAIKOEN BONSAI KENKYUKAI Winter Silhouettes, January 19-20 at the LA Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. 10-4:30. Demos both days, 1:00. Beautiful deciduous trees. Sales. CA Aiseki Kai display. Reception January 19th, 6:30-9:00. Food, fun, live auction and raffle.
Coming Events
Leaves no stone unturned
ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED
aisekikai.com
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 2019 snack buffets. What would a meeting be without a major calorie break? Unimaginable.
Refreshments
Always check Golden Statements Magazine Calendar section for additional coming events
Stone Sales Ken McLeod 209-605-9386 or 209 586-2881
suisekistones.com
Freeman Wang 626-524-5021 Suiseki-Viewing Stone Sale
stores.ebay.com/thestoneking
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 23-24, 2019. 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
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