# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Lawrence Kent - Collecting in West Africa - SAS General Meeting
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Each regular SAS meeting begins with a guest speaker presentation, followed by our monthly auction. We also hold a raffle and have a sales table with club merchandise and fish bagging supplies available for members and guests.

The Sacramento Aquarium Society is excited to welcome Lawrence Kent and hear about his adventures "Seeking Cichlids, Catfish, and More All Over West Africa"

Lawrence works for a humanitarian foundation based in Seattle combatting poverty and malnutrition in Africa and South Asia. He travels abroad frequently for his job and takes advantage of these trips to look for freshwater fish on the side. He has made fish presentations in twenty-five cities on three continents, collected fish in 24 countries, and published dozens of articles in Tropical Fish Hobbyist, Amazonas, the Cichlid News, the Buntbarsche Bulletin, American Currents, and the German magazines DATZ, AKFS, and BSSW Report. Lawrence currently serves as an editor-at-large for Amazonas magazine and as a judge in the North American category of the Biotope Aquarium Design contest. He keeps 30 tanks at home filled with African cichlids, catfish, mormyrids, killies, Southeast Asian labyrinths, and self-collected North American native fish. This talk will highlight his West African fish-collecting adventures and discoveries.

More info: https://www.sacramentoaquariumsociety.com/events/lawrence-kent-africa
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- **Event Categories**: meetups, trips-adventures, contests
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 20

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Rancho Cordova
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Mountain Mike's Pizza (2220 Gold Springs Court, Gold River, CA)
- **lat**: 38.62194258
- **long**: -121.26608072
- **full address**: Mountain Mike's Pizza (2220 Gold Springs Court, Gold River, CA), 2220 Gold Springs Ct, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670-4474, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Sacramento Aquarium Society (https://allevents.in/org/sacramento-aquarium-society/13473022)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mountain Mike's Pizza (2220 Gold Springs Court, Gold River, CA), 2220 Gold Springs Ct, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670-4474, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Sacramento Aquarium Society
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** meetups, trips-adventures, contests
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Lawrence Kent - Collecting in West Africa - SAS General Meeting ?
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