Registrations for the MABA2008 Convention will be accepted beginning Tuesday, January 15, 2008. Any registrations received prior to January 15 will be rejected. Go to www.maba2008.org and scroll down on the home page for the link to registration.

The convention will be held from Thursday, June 12 through Sunday, June 15, 2008 at the Marten House Hotel and Lilly Conference Center located on West 86th Street in Indianapolis, Indiana and is hosted by the Indianapolis Bonsai Club.

There will be bonsai on exhibit (judged and non-judged), exhibit critiques, demos, workshops, raffles, auctions, banquet, over 3,900 square feet of vendors and more ...

Featured artists include:

• Danny Use from Belgium and creator of the Ginkgo Award for Excellence in bonsai design and owner of the Ginkgo Bonsai Center Bonsai Nursery
• Steve Pilacik is known as the "American Pine Master" and owns the Matsu Momiji Bonsai Nursery
• Dana Quattlebaum is the Resident Artist and Production Manager of Brussel's Bonsai Nursery
• Matt Ouwinga is an up and coming bonsai artist who has studied in Japan under renowned Bonsai Master Kunio Kobayashi
• Andy Smith has collected, trained and sold bonsai specimen material for many years and owns Golden Arrow Bonsai in Deadwood, SD
• David Kreutz is a graduate of the three year Satsuki care and culture classes at Eldorado Bonsai and he is certified as a first level instructor by the Japan Satsuki Association
• Mark Fields has been practicing the art of bonsai for over 40 years and is the owner of Bonsai by Fields
• Mike Devore is widely known for his tropical bonsai material and owns Northridge Tropical Bonsai Nursery
• Simon Feng has been trained in the Chinese "clip and grow" school and has practiced bonsai for over 20 years, first in Vancouver, then Toronto and now Indianapolis.

Please continue to check www.maba2008.org for updates and additional information about the MABA2008 Convention.