David Rowe has been doing bonsai
for 25 years, and has been a member of the Toronto Bonsai Society
for 23 years. He has served on the executive committee for all
but three of those years. The position of editor he held for
six years, show chairman six years, vice president for two, and
president for one. David has given workshops and demonstrations
at the Japanese Cultural Center, in Toronto. Locally he has provided
workshops and demonstrations at many of the bonsai clubs. He
was one of the headliners at the 1997 BCI convention in Toronto.
David has provided demonstrations and workshops across the country,
in Rochester, New York, The Vancouver Federation of Bonsai Clubs,
The Vancouver Island Bonsai Club in Victoria and, since moving
to the Island six months ago, David has started a local club
where he lives in Parksville, British Columbia. In September
2000, he was one of the three headliners at the Pacific Rim Bonsai
Convention, held in Victoria, B.C. In 2002 David will be one
of the headliners at the ABS Symposium 2002. A photo of one of
his trees was judged to be in the top 100 in the Japan Airlines
World Bonsai Contest. In the 1997 IBC convention he received
the Chase Rosade award for design. |