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Haiku Activities at Sakura Days Japan Fair

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On this first day of the Sakura Days Japan Fair, many haiku activities took place at the glasshouse.

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A lot of people came to the Leith Wheeler Haiku House to learn more about haiku.

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During her workshop Haiku “Rocks!”, Angela Naccarato instructed participants on how to write a haiku.

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Then, participants wrote their haiku on a painted rock.

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Angela Naccarato and musician James Mullin were part of the lineup of poets reading from 12.00-1.00

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Michael Dylan Welch gave a workshop about haiku from 1.00-2.00

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Terry Ann Carter showed us how to make a beautiful haiku book from 2.00-3.00

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With our haiku notebook in our pocket, it was time to take a walk to the Haiku Rock from 3.00-4.00.

The Haiku Rock (located in the cherry grove) features the top winning poems from the first three years of the VCBF Haiku Invitational contest).

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Back at the Glasshouse, participants could test their Haiku IQ at this table and also read a tiny haiku… using a magnifying glass!

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Visitors were able to get free advice on how to write a winning haiku from our team of volunteers who are past judges and past winners of the Haiku Invitational: Terry Ann Carter (2013 judge), Michael Dylan Welch, Carole MacRury, Johnny Baranski, Vicki McCullough, Angela Naccarato, Jacquie Pierce, and Jessica Tremblay.

All haiku activities will take place again on Sunday April 6, 2014.

Come to the glasshouse to learn more about haiku!

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Schedule of Haiku Activities

in the Glass House

 Sunday April 6, 2014

 

10:00a – 5:00p                How to Write a Winning Haiku (ongoing)

10:00a –12:00p              Crafts: Notebooks with Vicki and Jacquie

12:00p – 1:00p                Readings: Terry Ann Carter, Carole MacRury, Young Shakespeareans, Johnny Baranski, and Angela Naccarato with flute accompaniment by James Mullin

1:00p  – 2:00p         Learn About Haiku (workshop) with Michael Dylan Welch

2:00p  – 3:00p         Bookmaking (workshop) with Terry Ann Carter

3:00p  – 4:00p         Haiku Walk with Michael Dylan Welch(meet at the Glass House)

3:00p  – 5:00p         Crafts: Haiku ‘Rocks!’ with Angela Naccarato

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Haiku Rocks (painted by Angela Naccarato) featuring Best Canadian poem 2014 by Marco Fraticelli and poem by Johnny Baranski (Honorable mention at the Haiku Invitational 2014)

 

 

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the scent of cherry (haiku by Johnny Baranski)

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“Last spring while I was photographing the cherry blossoms in my Vancouver, Washington neighborhood I suddenly got a whiff of something I hadn’t smelled in forty plus years: cherry tobacco pipe smoke. I knew it was cherry flavored pipe tobacco because one of my college drama professors always used it even in class and I never forgot that scent. As I turned around in the direction from where the smoke was coming I saw an elderly man also viewing the cherry blossoms while puffing on his pipe. He reminded me of my professor. Unlike that of cigarette or cigar smoke the scent wafting from his pipe was not at all unpleasant. In fact it was soothing. I found it quite fitting under the circumstances and a wonderful prompt for a haiku.”

 

 spring breeze…

the scent of cherry

tobacco pipe smoke

Johnny Baranski

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013 –

Honorable Mention

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Breaking light (haiku by Mark Miller)

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breaking light

the pale vibrato

of cherry blossoms

— Mark Miller

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013 Sakura Award

Submit your poem to the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2014 before June 2 2014.

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Falling (haiku by Gerald A. McBreen)

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falling

through the moon

cherry blossom

— Gerald A. McBreen (Auburn, Washington)

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013

Submit your poem to the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2014 before June 2 2014.

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Laughing in the cherry blossoms (haiku by Jill Warner)

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Laughing in the cherry blossoms

We make angels

In pink snow

— Jill Warner (Surrey, B.C.)

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013 Sakura Award

 

Submit your poem to the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2014 before June 2 2014

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Empty Park Bench (haiku by Margaret Farquhar)

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empty park bench –

cherry blossom petals

on the ground

– Margaret Farquhar (Mission, B.C.)

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013 Honorable Mention

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Spring Fever (haiku by Sasa Vazic)

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“Spring has come and I can feel its reaches making me shiver. As many cherry trees are blooming all around in my neighborhood, I am reminded of my beloved cherry tree in a yard in front of the house I used to live in as a child. I was but 7 years old when my parents moved to another town, but I have never forgotten that special cherry tree I used to pick fruits from during the big breaks between the lessons.”
spring fever…
the cherry tree blooming
elsewhere
Sasa Vazic (Batajinica, Serbia)
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013 Sakura Awards

 

You have until June 2nd 2014 to submit to the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2014 .
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waiting for the blossoms (haiku by Marco Fraticelli)

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“I spend most of the winter hoping for signs of spring. These are few and far between in Montreal.  While I am receiving emails from the West Coast filled with cherry blossoms, I am usually still shovelling snow.

 

One night, I was attending a play in-the-round, which meant that there was no backstage so that we could watch the actors changing costumes. I was struck by the fact that this didn’t in any way spoil the illusion. If an actor switched hats before my eyes and became another character, I accepted it.

 

This is very much like watching a magician. We know those birds are up his sleeves or hidden in his long coat, but that doesn’t diminish our excitement the minute that they appear and fly around the stage.

 

The arrival of spring is also like this. We know it’s coming, it comes every year, and we see the signs in advance , but there is nothing more magical than that first true day of spring.”

 

waiting for the blossoms

the birds are still

up the magician’s sleeve

– Marco Fraticelli

 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013 Best Canadian poem

 

Submit a poem to the VCBF Haiku Invitational.

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this side of winter (haiku by Leah Ann Sullivan)

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this side of winter

tuning the mandolin

to mountain cherry

-Leah Ann Sullivan

Winner, Best International Poem

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013

“This haiku was written at the St Patrick’s Day in Nagoya’s Coat of Arms Pub and Restaurant opening party, to Irish music by Brian Cullen, Sarah Mulvey, with Aya Kawakami and others onstage. The windows were open and it was quite the night.  The fiddler played mandolin that night.

The new restaurant’s fans weren’t working yet, so the broiler smoke came right up to the second floor. They opened the window.  It was quite chilly, but without the open windows, this haiku wouldn’t have come to mind.  There were mountain cherry trees right outside Nagoya that night.

The mountain cherry comes out earlier than the other trees. We usually have the full sakura blossoms at the end of March and beginning of April, depending on the weather. The mountain cherries are my favorites, with long branches like a weeping willow.

I wrote the haiku on a Guinness coaster and modified it a few times. I got up the next morning and sent it into the contest.”

— Leah Ann Sullivan, Nagoya, Japan

 

Submit a poem to the VCBF Haiku Invitational.

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a crow’s nest (haiku by Julie Emerson)

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a crow’s nest –

the wind drops

white blossoms

                          -Julie Emerson

Winner, Best B.C. Poem

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2013.

Submit a poem to the VCBF Haiku Invitational starting March 1.