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Top; Chengmei Culture Park, one of the convention venues that hosted demonstrations, workshops and exhibits, is
a beautiful park in Yongjing Township, Changhua County, with wonderful gardens that feature impressive bonsai and an enchanting landscape.
Middle left and right; Nacho Marin, from Venezuela created an elegant composition with his demonstration tree.
Seok Yu Kim from Korea and his team make dramatic changes their demo tree.
Lower middle, left and right;
Carved and polished Hualien rhodonite, 46 x 33 x 5 cm. Collection of Rong Hua Zhong.
Gudrun Benz, BCI director and Helen Su, BCI 1st Vice President who translated for Gudrun at her lecture on Suiseki.
Bottom; View of suiseki exhibit at Chengmei Culture Park.
Demonstrations and Exhibits at Chengmei Culture Park
By Gudrun Benz, Germany
One of the four venues of BCI 2017 convention in Taiwan was the Chengmei Culture Park, Changhua, about an hour’s drive from our
hotel in Taichung. It is a kind of museum which was brought into being by a private foundation. It consists of several buildings, partly in traditional Taiwanese style, and a park in Japanese style. e welcoming center, a modern building, is reserved for education, equipped with a stage, benches for the audience, a space for small exhibitions and a café. Guided tours throughout the building and the garden with many old trees were o ered to the large number of visitors that come on weekends.
e bonsai demonstrations by Nacho Marin (Ven- ezuela, Darrieux Laurent (France) and Seok Ju Kim (Korea) as well as my power point presentation about Suiseki were conducted on Saturday and Sunday, November 4 and 5. I was surprised that the audience
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