Thursday, November 6
9am - 5pm: ABS Board Meeting in a classroom at the Zoo's Education Center -- ABS members welcome as observers.
9am - 3pm: Walking Tours of Urban San Francisco Gardens Featuring Bamboo -- Guides available for 10am and 2pm walks. Start at Rosy Ross' patio garden. Contact person is Kathy Long.
Friday, November 7
Registration at the Zoo's Education Center 8:00 – 9:30am  (click icon for picture)
Friday Morning Session (Osher Hall in the Education Center)
9:00 – 9:15: Tom Chiosso – Welcome and overview of bamboo at the Zoo
9:15 – 9:45: Dr. Nabil Taha -- Bamboo Structural Engineering
9:45 -- 10:00:
Kamesh Salam, the director of the Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre in India and President of the World Bamboo Organization will announce the location of the next International Bamboo Conference.
10:00 -- 10:30:
10:30 – 11:15: Peggy Stern of Bamboo of the Americas project – Urban Chusquea collection in Quito, Ecuador
11:30 – 1:00: Lunch (included in registration fee)
12:15 – 1:00: Tour the Bamboos at the Zoo
Friday Afternoon Session (Osher Hall in the Education Center)
1:00 – 1:45pm: Wolfgang Eberts - Bamboo in Europe
1:45 – 2:30: Celina Llerena - Bamboo Architecture in Brazil
3:00 – 3:45: Gerard Minakawa – Large bamboo sculpture and furniture in the U.S. and Bolivia
3:45 – 4:30: Jimmy Triplett – Hanky-Panky in the Temperate Bamboos
5:00 – 6:00pm: Evening Reception and Poster session with the speakers (included with registration)
Saturday Morning Session (Osher Hall in the Education Center)
9:00 – 9:30 Jinhe Fu – New Uses For Bamboo
9:30 – 10:15: Hui Xue – Several lifetimes of bamboo ethnobotanical images from southwest China
10:30 – 11:30: Lynn Clark - American Bamboo News
11:30 – 1:00: [over lunch] BOTA planning meeting -- A discussion with several of the key biologists and Director Gib Cooper about upcoming conservation and organizational efforts in several South American countries. Everyone is welcome.
11:30 – 1:00: Lunch (included in registration fee)
[Silent Auction: Will be ongoing Saturday AM, ending at 2:15pm]
Saturday Afternoon Events (Education Center)
1:00 – 2:00: American Bamboo Society General Membership Meeting
2:15 – 2:30: Announcement of Silent Auction winners (if held)
2:30 – 4:30: Live Bamboo Auction (begun as an online auction on October 19th)
 7:00pm: San Francisco Bay Dinner Cruise aboard the Hornblower
Empress (we have the whole vessel). DEADLINE for CRUISE REGISTRATION is NOON on FRIDAY 7 November!
Sunday, November 9
9am - 5pm: Tour to Bamboo Sourcery Nursery and Gardens (Sebastopol)
via bus, 56 person capacity.
Deadline for signups is 5:00pm, Friday, November 7.
Workshops - ongoing during the following times in classrooms adjacent to the lecture hall:
Friday
8:00am – 11:30am: Alfonso and Rubi Rangel, Bamboo Objects. Craftspeople from Mexico who run workshops just to spread the bamboo gospel to as many people as possible. Their goal is to build simple objects to engage the imagination of as many people as possible.
1:00pm – 4:00pm: Martin Coto, Bamboo Furniture. Master craftsman from Costa Rica with 30 years experience. We have sponsored 5 workshops with Martin and every participant will attest to the great command he has over the material. Particularly interesting are the jigs and tools he puts together.
Saturday
9:00am -- 12:00pm: Bamboo 101 – members of NCC/ABS will demonstrate division, control, and answer questions about this special place where we can grow more species than anywhere else in the country.
1:00pm - 4:00pm: Bamboo craft/sculpture
– Gerard Minakawa, Martin Coto, Kevin Rowell, Marisha Farnsworth
Announced Workshops, as yet Unscheduled:
Craig Calfee, bicycle designer/builder will show both his custom bamboo racing/mountain bikes as well as a very affordable system for local bike use that he set up in Ghana. Of special interest are the joints he developed of natural fiber and epoxy which are by far the strongest joint ever done in bamboo.
Presenter and Participant Notes:
Tom Chiosso is the San Francisco Zoo's Superintendent of Grounds and is largely responsible for our great location for the meeting. He has made his interest in using bamboo in Zoo landscaping, both inside and outside of animal enclosures, a reality.
Dr. Jinhe Fu is the current International ABS Director and INBAR program manager. His website: http://www.geocities.com/zhuzi.geo/.
Celina Llerena has uploaded these videos from Brazil.
Gerard Minakawa is a Bolivian-American-Japanese sculptor and furniture maker.
Peggy Stern, North American biologist, co-author of American Bamboos (with Lynn Clark) who has lived the last 20 years in Ecuador.
Dr. Nabil Taha, P.E. - President of Precision Structural Engineering, Inc.
Has done the structural design of more bamboo buildings than anyone in this country, Nabil will present his experiences. http://www.structure1.com/personnel.htm
Hui Xue, using many of her father's images, will describe plants from Yunnan, China -- some of which are surprisingly cold-tolerant.
And Susanne Lucas (past President, ABS; Director, World Bamboo Organization) writes: I'm happy to say that my colleague, Kamesh Salam, the director of the Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre and President of the World Bamboo Organization, is coming to the meeting. His purpose is to announce the upcoming World Bamboo Conference to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in September 2009. The support, activities and enthusiasm in Southeast Asia brings the WBC to Thailand. We have the governmentt of Thailand, UNIDO and Kasetsart University as co-sponsors and supporters.
(The program, dates, and times may be subject to change. Check here often!) |
