Jay

Walter, Hello... I think you have touched on an extremely useable idea. Demo's and workshops have seemed to me (only a novice with 4 years experience) to be 'Shows', they are theater, entertaining?... YES!, educational?... sometimes..... your ideas would bring a greater degree of learning to the masses. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with entertainment, but I have gained only a minimal amount of knowledge from demos.....

Last year I went to a show in Rochester NY... walked the display area, viewed the trees and came up with my own critique of each tree. That evening there was a critque by three masters...it was EXTREMELY useful to see how my thoughts compared to others. I was able to take away several useful ideas!!!

Jay

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