There is going to be so many good things for you !
Festival Launch Party!
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Wednesday 12th May 7-10pm
16-18 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HNWednesday 12th May 7-10pm
£4 and £2 to BRSLI members and STUDENTS!
BRSLI website: http://www.brlsi.org/
News just in about the launch evening!
BlazBlue goes Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/may/10/blazblue-art-vitaliv
We are very fortunate to have Blazblue: Calamity Trigger starting their launch with the Bath Japanese Festival!
Carrie Etter will be reading haiku from her collection in progress "The Broken Kite"
Carrie's collection The Tethers is out now, published by Seren.
Carrie's blog: http://carrieetter.blogspot.com
Courtesy of our sister festival International Haiku Spring Festival 2010 we have special guests Masuda Aika（桝田愛佳）a haiga painter, and her mother, Masuda Junko（桝田純子）a haiku poet, coming over to give a taste of haiku and haiga from Japan.
The Origami Picnic Corner by the lovely people from Bristol's I Love It magazine. Create an origami animal for the night and keep to take home with you!
http://www.theloveofit.co.uk/events.php
The Origami Picnic Corner by the lovely people from Bristol's I Love It magazine. Create an origami animal for the night and keep to take home with you!
http://www.theloveofit.co.uk/events.php
Thursday 20th May 6.30 – 8.30 p.m.
Renga: splicing spontaneity into your writing
with Alan Summers
Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, 14-15 John Street, Bath
£24 with wine.
Bookings: Writing Events Bath:
Alex/Jude mb. 07811501978
website: http://www.writingeventsbath.co.uk
Saturday 22nd May 3 – 5 p.m.
Japanese Renga Group Poem Workshop
Bath Central Library, Library entrance at The Podium Shopping Centre, Level One, Bath
ffi BathRenga@withwords.org.uk
Renga: splicing spontaneity into your writing
with Alan Summers
Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, 14-15 John Street, Bath
£24 with wine.
Bookings: Writing Events Bath:
Alex/Jude mb. 07811501978
website: http://www.writingeventsbath.co.uk
Saturday 22nd May 3 – 5 p.m.
Japanese Renga Group Poem Workshop
Bath Central Library, Library entrance at The Podium Shopping Centre, Level One, Bath
ffi BathRenga@withwords.org.uk
Comments from previous renga workshops:
"we really enjoyed the renga event...it was a very intensely creative act, and I was really struck by the renga form itself, what it could be capable of...a whole new poetic energy" Mark, University of Winchester
"Thanks again for a wonderful poetry session."
Yu Yan, U.S. citizen currently visiting Bath
"I just wanted to thank you again for such a great event...I want to do some more!"
Susan, Plymouth
"Thanks so much for yesterday's renga event - it was fantastic! Really got the creative juices flowing. Let me know when the next one is, I will definitely attend!" Tracey, Bath
"Looks like I missed a fantastic event..I hope to be at the next one."
Caroline, Bristol (she was!)
" More! More! " Libby, Bristol
"It is so tempting to get involved in renku/renga with all the excitement you...generate." Melinda, USA
2010 Bath Japanese Festival :
Book Arts, Films, Haiku and Renga and a lot more!
May 12th - 23rd 2010
With Words (Alan Summers) and Rachel Carvosso of Tokyo Art Beat & Japan Editor for Bristol's The Love of It in Partnership with:
Bath Libraries; Nikki Bennett & Uni-Verse; Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights; Writing Events Bath; Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (fondly known as BRSLI or BRLSI); Akita International University; and International Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (Akita, Northern Honshu, Japan).
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three four five swallows
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grey mountain and birds©With Words 2010
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Ralf
It sounds like a great festival. Best of success to you.
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If you'd like to come along to the launch party at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution in Bath, all you need to do is turn up at the door on Wednesday 12th May (event times 7-10pm) at BRLSI.
Website and online poster: BRSLI
Tickets are £4 or £2 to BRLSI members and STUDENTS
We have haiga and haiku poets from Akita; Carrie Etter reading haiku and senryu from her collection in progress "The Broken Kite"; and Karen Hoy and myself reading Renga from With Words workshops.
Also there is a fun Origami Picnic Corner; Anime Cells from Blazblue: Calamity Trigger; Haiga exhibition; Japanese Tattoos; and Usborne Books talking about their Japanese literature and literacy series.
Hot sake and sushi from Yen Sushi are on sale as well as other refreshments.
Plus many more surprises!
Hope to see you,
all my very best,
Alan
Director, With Words
Literature Director, Bath Japanese Festival
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