The 16th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 23-24, 2008 at Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin, Texas. Hours are Saturday 10 am - 6 pm and Sunday 10 am - 5 pm. Admission is free. Parking fee $3.
Guest speaker, Robin McBride Scott, will conduct a workshop on Weaving a Cane Mat, using native American Bamboo that she has personally harvested, prepared and dyed. She will also do a presentation about her work with basketry and native American bamboo. The workshop will be limited to 10 - 15 participants. Registration Info
The festival will include a live plant auction on Saturday afternoon, a dinner by reservation on Saturday evening and two full days of bamboo activities with bamboo plants and crafts for sale and show.
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Presentations:
Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:30 pm
"Rivercane Mats and Basketry - Arundinaria Gigantea - Native American Bamboo" - Presentation by Robin McBride Scott, an award winning artist of Cherokee ancestry, who works in Traditional Woodland materials and native American Bamboo. She is the first place recipient of the American Bamboo Society Arts and Craft Award for 2007 for her work with basketry and canebrake (Arundinaria gigantea) bamboo. Robin is a consultant, presenter, and teacher of performing and visual Native arts. She is a 2008 recipient of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Visiting Artist Fellowship.
Additional Presentations (times to be announced)
"Landscaping with Running Bamboo" - using running bamboo - in the landscape and elsewhere - and not to be afraid of it - Presentation by Steve Muzos, President of the Texas Bamboo Society
"Light Requirements of Bamboo" - Presentation by Harry Simmons - Harry studied Tropical Horticulture at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand. His thesis focused on evaluating horticultural quality and light requirements of 7 genera and 20 species of bamboo.
A Video Presentation about the works of Japanese Artist Tanaka Kyokusho - produced by David Stewart- Tanaka Kyokusho, is a bamboo artist and a bamboo basket maker. The video is about his work and shows how he makes the fine slivers of bamboo that he uses in his baskets.
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Featured sponsors and vendors:
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Bamboo vendors are invited to participate -- Vendor Application
Inquiries send email
The 16th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival is the annual fund raiser for the Texas Bamboo Society Chapter of the American Bamboo Society, a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization. Proceeds are used to provide research, information, education, assistance to public bamboo gardens, support for bamboo artists, and to bring new varieties to the multi-state region represented by the Texas Bamboo Society.
The 16th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival is sponsored by the Texas Bamboo Society
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