Events I’ll be involved in (reading/performing/mcing/organising)
during the 2010 WA Spring Poetry Festival and National Poetry Week
27th August to 5th September
Friday 27th August
Opening Night at City Farm
1 City Farm Place, East Perth, next to Claisebrook Station
5.30 – 6.30 pm The Gathering
Drinks and finger food, book sales
6.30 – 7.30 pm Festival Launch
MC, Glen Phillips
Keynote speech by Festival Patron, Lucy Dougan
7.30 – 8 pm Awards and Presentations
MC, Glen Phillips
Life Membership awards - Peter Jeffery and Maureen Sexton
Creatrix Prizes - Peter Jeffery and Maureen Sexton
8 – 11 pm Renderings
MC, Glen Phillips
Book presentations by Fremantle Press, Sunline Press
Guest poet introductions — Meg Mooney, Chris Mansell, Karla Hart, Phil McNamara, Julie Watts, Coral Carter, Deanne Leber, Sue Clennell, Roland Leach, Shane McCauley, Gabrielle Everall
Book sales
Music by David Hyams
a moment please
haiku basics and ginko (haiku walk)
4 pm to 6 pm
City Farm
1 City Farm Place, East Perth, next to Claisebrook Station
Join Maureen Sexton, Amanda Joy, members of the Mari Warabiny haiku group and others for an introduction to haiku followed by a ginko (haiku walk) and sharing of haiku. This is a free event.
For more information contact Maureen 0435 024 616 or email: haikumariwarabiny@gmail.com.
Saturday 4th September
POETICA – ABC Radio National
Australia-wide Poetry program.
Saturday at 3.05 pm and repeated Thursday
NATIONAL POETRY WEEK BECOMES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH ON POETICA.
4th National Poetry Week 2010 – a round-the-nation sampling of recent Australian poetry. (includes haiku by Maureen Sexton)
11th Bruce Dawe – selected poems by this well-loved Australian poet.
18th War is not the Season for Figs – the poetry of Lidija Cvetkovic.
25th Jack – excerpts from Judy Johnson’s verse novel set in the Torres Strait.
Sunday 5th September
paths made by water
a journey through haiga, haiku, butoh/taboo dance and music, followed by open
readings (all forms of poetry). This follows the WA Poets Inc AGM from 6 pm
City Farm
1 City Farm Place, East Perth, next to Claisebrook Station
7 pm to 11 pm
Multi-media presentations of the contemporary haiga and haiku of Amanda Joy and Maureen Sexton.
Haiga and haiku on silk by artist, Annie Otness.
Haiku dovetailing by Amanda Joy and Maureen Sexton.
Butoh/Taboo dance by Roeli Joosten.
Music by the Book of Reel and Geordie Batey.
Haiku readings by the Mari Warabiny Haiku Group
Open Readings (all forms of poetry)
Hear for yourself the influence of Zen in Haiku, Haiga and Butoh.
“What is the relevance of Zen to Haiku? … Zen and haiku are about finding one’s way to what is known as haiku ‘spirit’. Zen was present at the very moment haiku came into being. Haiku was Zen in inspiration. … What is the relevance of Zen to haiku today, more than 350 years later? In one word it is discipline. The discipline of self. The discipline to quiet the chatter of our minds. The discipline to see things as they are, as they exist in this Eternal Now.” This is an excerpt of a much longer article by Jacqui Murray, April 2008 that can be found at - http://www.haikuoz.org/Zen%20and%20haiku%20jacqui%20murray.pdf
Organisers: Maureen Sexton WA Rep (HaikuOz, The Australian Haiku Society, www.haikuoz.org and Amanda Joy, in conjunction with WA Poets Inc www.wapoets.net.au
For more information contact Maureen on 0435 024 616 or email Gary: garydepiazzi@bigpond.com
HAIKU & HAIGA EVENTS/COMPETITIONS/PERFORMANCES 23rd July to 3th August 2010
- haiku competition, Bodhi Tree Bookstore Café
- alongside silence - haiku/haiga/butoh performance, Fringe Gallery
- a haiku celebration, Bodhi Tree Bookstore Café
- haiku competition and haiku wall, City of Perth Library
Read more …
1.
‘Haiku Competition’
Entries close 5pm Friday 23 July 2010.
Prizes: 1st Prize – Basho: The Complete Haiku
2nd Prize – Haiku Mind: 108 poems to cultivate awareness & open your heart
3rd Prize – The British Museum Haiku
Open to poets residing in the Perth metro area only
Contact: Karen Kotze, The Bodhi Tree, Cnr Oxford St and Scarborough Beach Road, Mt Hawthorn WA 6016, PO Box 17, Mt Hawthorn WA 6915, T: (08) 9444 9884, F: (08) 9444 9889, M: 040 888 0219, E: admin@bodhitree.net.au, W: www.bodhitree.net.au
For guidelines and entry form, go to:
http://www.bodhitree.net.au/Text/1276588625412-0226/pC/1214367693359-7635/uploadedFiles/1276588620694-4588.pdf
Entries will be judged by Amanda Joy and Maureen Sexton - WA Representative for HaikuOz – the Australian Haiku Society.
Brought to you by The Bodhi Tree Bookstore Café and WA Poets Inc
2.
The Fringe Gallery & Performance Space presents
ALONGSIDE SILENCE
Sunday 25th July
7 pm to 10 pm
The Fringe Gallery
94 Bawdan Street Willagee
(opposite Webber Reserve)
A multimedia presentation of the contemporary haiga and haiku of Maureen Sexton and Amanda Joy.
Plus Butoh/Taboo dance performance by Roeli Joosten.
Open mike is open to all forms of poetry! But it’d be great to hear your haiku if you do!
“Haiku.. as dynamic in the manner of a single frame of thought.. the flash itself, immeasurable in any time whatever: no time manifesting in time. So the movement of the haiku could be said not to move but to be, totally movement. That movement which because it is not relative, is inseparable from stillness
~W.S. Merwin
Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry that is succinct, minimal and imaginative. It often has a seasonal reference and a ‘cutting word’. In English haiku the ideas can be expressed with a short line, a long line and another short line.
Haiga, in simple terms, is a haiku poem and its image or painting.
Butoh/Taboo performance contains the unexpected with no set style but
always poignant. Butoh appeared first in Japan after the second world
war and was viewed as revolutionary and controversial in its form.
For further details contact Terry Farrell 0412 911 562
3,
THE BODHI TREE BOOKSTORE CAFÉ
HAIKU EVENTS
‘A Haiku Celebration’
Hosted by The Bodhi Tree Bookstore and Café as part of A Celebration of Writing.
Celebrate haiku and related forms at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore Café, on Sunday 1st August from 12 noon. You will be rewarded with: Haiku readings/performances, demonstrations of the deep and powerful connections in Haiga, the beauty of the combination of Haiku and silk art, and the hauntingly disciplined movements of Butoh dance. The winners of the Bodhi Tree Haiku Competition will be reading their winning works and there will be an open reading, so bring along yours or your favourite haiku to read.
Presenters:
Haiga – Maureen Sexton, Amanda Joy
Haiku – Amanda Joy, Maureen Sexton, Ross Bolleter, Rose Van Son
Butoh – Roeli Joosten
Haiku and Silk Art – Annie Otness
Hear for yourself the influence of Zen in Haiku, Haiga and Butoh.
“What is the relevance of Zen to Haiku? … Zen and haiku are about finding one’s way to what is known as haiku ‘spirit’. Zen was present at the very moment haiku came into being. Haiku was Zen in inspiration. … What is the relevance of Zen to haiku today, more than 350 years later? In one word is it is discipline. The discipline of self. The discipline to quiet the chatter of our minds. The discipline to see things are they are, as they exist in this Eternal Now.” This is an excerpt of a much longer article by Jacqui Murray, April 2008 that can be found at - http://www.haikuoz.org/Zen%20and%20haiku%20jacqui%20murray.pdf
Organisers: Maureen Sexton (HaikuOz, The Australian Haiku Society, WA Rep, http://www.haikuoz.org/) and Amanda Joy, in conjunction with The Bodhi Tree http://www.bodhitree.net.au and WA Poets Inc http://www.wapoets.net.au.
For more information and a copy of the full program (available soon), go to: http://www.bodhitree.net.au/events-calendar/celebration-of-writing
For Haiku information, go to:
http://www.wapoets.net.au/pages/creatrixhaikusubmissionguidelines.html
For Haiga Information, go to:
http://raysweb.net/haiku/pages/haiga-definition.html
For Butoh Information, go to:
http://www.zenbutoh.com/
http://www.rebeccawalker.com/blog/2009/03/17/my-body-my-butoh
Columbia Encyclopedia
4.
CITY OF PERTH LIBRARY
2010 ‘HAIKU COMPETITION’ AND ‘HAIKU WALL’
ENTRY CONDITIONS
- Haiku and Senryu will be accepted.
- Entries must be previously unpublished.
- Adult entries are limited to 5 per entrant and must all be on one A4 paper.
- Student entries are limited to 3 per entrant and must all be on one A4 paper.
- The name of the poet must be included at the bottom of the page.
- A separate contact sheet must have name and contact details.
- The contact sheet must also list the first line of each poem.
- Font size to be at least 22pt. Any style is acceptable.
- Entries will be judged purely on the text.
- Any pictures or decorations must fit on the page with the Haiku.
Entries close Thursday 13 August 5 pm.
Winners listed Mon 31 August
Submit entries: Deliver to the Library, 573 Hay St Perth.
Post to GPO Box C120 Perth 6839 Haiku will not be returned
unless accompanied with a stamped, self - addressed envelope.
Email to library.perth@cityofperth.wa.gov.au. The poems must
be sent as a word document attachment.
We welcome entries from overseas, but regrettably we are not able to allocate prizes or forward gift vouchers to overseas entrants.
Adult: 1st - $75 2nd - $50 3rd - $40
High School age: 1st - $50
Primary School age: 1st - $40
Winners will be listed on the Library’s web page and in the Library.
Entries will be displayed on the Haiku Wall in the Library during WA National Poetry Week from 31 August – 5 September
Entries will be judged by Maureen Sexton - WA Representative for HaikuOz – the Australian Haiku Society.
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