Haiku
In Other
Forms
The Gabriola Commons
675 North Road (opposite the
elementary school)
10 am –
12 noon
Suggested donation $5
Rengay
Roundup
The Poetry Yurt
At The Gabriola Commons
1:30 –
4:30 pm
Registration $10
At The Gabriola
Commons Main House (Suggested donation $5)
9:55 am Welcome
Naomi
Beth Wakan – Poetry Gabriola
Vicki
McCullough – Pacifi-kana
10 am – 12 noon
Haiku Moments on the Camino
Harvey
Jenkins
Harvey
introduces his memoir of pilgrimage on the popular Compostela de Santiago. He
will talk about his personal choices in the use of prose and haiku to capture
special moments and document his France-into-Spain journey.
Haibun Origins
Sonja
Arntzen
With
a few choice examples, Sonja will trace the origins of haibun in Japan from the
poem-diaries of the 10th and 11th centuries through to the development of
haibun as an independent genre in the 17th and 18th centuries. The focus will
be on how entwining poetry into prose narratives of journeys and personal life
opened up possibilities for expression that were not available to poetry or
prose narrative on their own.
Haibun in the 21st Century
Susan
Constable
Susan will read some current
examples of the haibun form by authors from several different countries around
the world. Touching on a variety of subject matter and styles, these examples
will exemplify what is considered praiseworthy in modern day haibun.
Break:
10:50 – 11:00 am
Photo-Haiga Approaches and Visions
Carole
MacRury, Jim Swift, and Michael Dylan Welch
Traditional
Japanese haiga combined brush art (sumi-e) with a haiku
poem done in brush calligraphy. Three photo-haiga artists present their unique
perspectives on the evolution of haiga in the digital age.
Lunch break: 12 noon – 1:15 pm
Gabriola Photography Club
Exhibit
Local photographers will once again show photos produced in response to
haiku by
poets with a connection to
the Gabriola
Haiku Gathering.
In the Poetry Yurt
at The Gabriola Commons
$10 registration fee
1:30 –
4:30 pm
Rengay Roundup
Michael
Dylan Welch
Join Michael in exploring the collaborative linked
verse form of rengay—consisting of six haiku or haiku-like verses by two,
three, or six writers on a thematic focus. Combine the shared social benefits
of renga and renku with a shorter, more accessible, and more readily
publishable linked form of poetry. Come prepared to
write collaboratively and have fun. For more info on rengay, visit http://sites.google.com/site/graceguts/rengay.
Contact
Janet Vickers at janetvickers@shaw.ca to register.
Our facilitators:
Vicki McCullough, regional coordinator for Haiku Canada and a long time haiku volunteer with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, has organized the program for this gathering.
Harvey Jenkins is a long time member of Haiku Canada and received a Sakura Award from the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival in both 2011 and 2012.
His haiku has appeared in many magazines and anthologies.
His haiku has appeared in many magazines and anthologies.
Sonja Arntzen is a leading translator of Japanese classical texts, including Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology and The Kagerō Diary.
Carole MacRury has received many awards for her widely published haiku, tanka and photographic haiga.
Jim Swift is a leading exponent of photographic haiga and photographic tanka.
Michael Dylan Welch is founder of National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWrMo) and the Tanka Society of America, and cofounder of the Haiku North America conference, and the American Haiku Archives. www.graceguts.com.
www.nahaiwrimo.com.
Susan Constable’s award winning haiku and tanka have appeared in numerous journals. She is currently the tanka editor for the on-line journal, A Hundred Gourds.
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