Kusamura Bonsai Club 66th Annual Show
- Exhibit of over 60 bonsai trees with guided tours and Japanese tea refreshments. - Two-day show listed in the Bay Area events week (Apr 17–23 calendar; check exact days). - Venue, hours and show details at mercurynews.com.
The Kusamura Bonsai Club’s 66th annual show is running April 18-19 in Palo Alto, with more than 60 bonsai trees on display. (eventbrite.com) The two-day show is at Addison Elementary School, 1045 Webster St., with free admission and free parking. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 18, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 19. (eventbrite.com) Visitors are being offered guided tours and Japanese tea refreshments, and the club says Chicago bonsai artist Jennifer Price is the weekend headliner. Her Saturday demonstration is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and her Sunday critique is set for 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (eventbrite.com) Bonsai is the practice of growing and pruning trees in containers to create the proportions of a mature tree in miniature. Kusamura’s website says its mission is to help people pursue bonsai through meetings, workshops and an annual show with exhibits, demonstrations and tree sales. (kusamurabonsai.org) The timing puts the show in the middle of the Bay Area’s April 17-23 events calendar published by The Mercury News. The newspaper listed the show as part of that week’s regional activities roundup. (mercurynews.com) Kusamura has been promoting the event on its homepage as the “66th Annual Show 4/18-4/19,” and its club calendar also lists April 18-19 for the exhibition. A separate club meeting page lists the same dates among upcoming club events. (kusamurabonsai.org, kusamurabonsai.org) The club’s recent materials show how much work goes into a local bonsai exhibition before the public arrives. Kusamura’s 2026 show task list includes volunteer roles for publicity, signage, hospitality and other show operations. (kusamurabonsai.org) The show also sits inside a longer Peninsula bonsai tradition. Kusamura’s archive and past event pages show annual exhibitions in prior years at the same Addison school site, including a 2025 show there with more than 60 bonsai and public demonstrations. (kusamurabonsai.org, kusamurabonsai.org) For Sunday visitors, the window is shorter: the final day runs until 4 p.m. and includes both a critique and a public workshop with club members. The trees, tours and tea are the draw, but the schedule shows the club treating the weekend as both an exhibition and a teaching event. (eventbrite.com)
