Bonsai Fest! Comes to Federal Way

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Bonsai Fest! Comes to Federal Way
A two-day celebration over World Bonsai Day- / Mother’s Day-weekend
 
 This May, Pacific Bonsai Museum hosts its first annual Bonsai Fest! The event features local bonsai enthusiast’s best works of art, as the Puget Sound Bonsai Association (PBSA) presents their member’s annual spring show. The public can view the club members’ bonsai, ask questions, and watch bonsai-making demonstrations. Demonstrations will be made by Tony Fajarillo--silver medal winning ‘Pot Party’ bonsai garden creator from the 2018 Northwest Flower and Garden Show--at 1:00 pm on May 12, and by Frank Heidt--longtime friend and student of Dan Robinson of Elandan Gardens--at 1:00 pm on May 13. Visitors can vote for their favorite PSBA bonsai to win ‘best in show.’ People’s choice voting concludes at 2:30pm Sunday with winners announced at 3:00pm.
 
Visitors can tour Pacific Bonsai Museum’s groundbreaking 2018 special exhibit ‘Living Art of Bonsai: Elements of Design’ that compares bonsai with other works of art and reveals the secrets of good bonsai design, breaking-down how exactly bonsai artists make tiny trees appear big, old, and interesting. Free, docent-led tours of the exhibit begin at 12 noon and 2:00 pm, both days. (Advance registration is not required.) 
 
Bonsai Fest! offers visitors a pop-up shop where the inspired can buy their own bonsai to practice the art at home, as well as bonsai pots, bonsai books, and other gift items. Visitors can also enter a free drawing to win a bonsai tree. (The drawing winner will be chosen at 3:30pm Sunday.) An art station will be available to kids and adults who want to get creative and make cards for mom.
 
On Mother’s Day--May 13--local poet Alexandria Manalo will be on-site from 11am to 2pm to writing complimentary, personalized poems for moms and other loved ones. Visitors can also pose at a bonsai selfie-station to take a photo with mom or snap a pic to share with her.
 
Main Street Gyro food truck will be onsite Saturday, May 12 and Chebogz food truck will be here Sunday, May 13.
 
Admission is free; $5 suggested donation for those who are able to support the Museum. 
  
PARKING:       
Free parking is available across from the Museum at the West Parking Lot; handicapped parking is available at the museum entrance.
 
 
MUSEUM HOURS 2018
Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 4pm.
March 22 to Sept 20: Extended Thursday hours, 10am to 7pm. (Other days the same as above.)
The Museum is closed: Every Monday as well as Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.
 
 
MORE INFO:   
The public can call the Museum with any questions in advance at (253) 353-7345 or email info@pacificbonsaimuseum.org.
 
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ABOUT THE PACIFIC BONSAI MUSEUM:
Pacific Bonsai Museum connects people to nature through the living art of bonsai. Fifty to 60 of the Museum’s 150 bonsai are displayed at any given time in an outdoor fine art museum setting in the open air of a large forest in Federal Way, Washington. Pacific Bonsai Museum is one of only a handful of public museums in the world solely dedicated to bonsai and the only one in the western United States. Offering contemporary exhibitions, docent-led group tours, education, workshops and more, with a flair for PNW-style innovation, the Pacific Bonsai Museum is poised at the forefront of an evolving art form that is transforming in a uniquely American fashion. 33,000+ people from across the globe visit the museum each year, with visitorship growing as people discover this gem of the Pacific Northwest. Open six days a week, year-round; admission by donation. Learn more at http://www.pacificbonsaimuseum.org/. 
 
 
ABOUT THE PUGET SOUND BONSAI ASSOCIATION (PSBA):
The Puget Sound Bonsai Association (PSBA) was formed in 1973 and is a non-profit organization dedicated to the education of its members and the general public in the art and culture of bonsai. More at: http://www.psba.us.
 
 
ABOUT THE WORLD BONSAI FRIENDSHIP FEDERATION (WBFF):
The Pacific Bonsai Museum is designated a World Bonsai Friendship Federation (WBFF) Cooperation Center, one of 14 such Centers worldwide. WBFF exists to exchange knowledge, technology, and information on the art of bonsai among countries of the world, in order to promote appreciation of bonsai as a living art and advance international friendship and goodwill. WBFF hosts the World Bonsai Convention once every four years (occurring next in 2021) and promotes World Bonsai Day (occurring every year on the second Saturday of May).