The Musicality of Japanese Poetry: Haiku & its Rhythm with Premier Saké tastings in a relaxed atmosphere

For more details about this fun, educational and exciting event in a relaxed atmosphere at the Museum of East Asian Art, City of Bath, England:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/museum-of-east-asian-event-with-sake.html

Nihonshu sake supplied by Sake Samurai:
http://www.sakesamurai.co.uk/sake-how-to-enjoy.html

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Bath Fringe Festival 2014 "Writing Haiku" Workshop free mini-workshop run by Alan Summers and Karen Hoy of With Words

 
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Bath Fringe Festival Writing Haiku Workshop

  

Writing Haiku

a free mini-workshop within an art exhibition

with Alan Summers and Karen Hoy

Saturday June 7th, 11am-12pm

Free Event to the public

‘STILL POINTS: MOVING WORLD’ Exhibition

Stall St

City of Bath

Bath and North East Somerset BA1 1QG

 

Photograph of Karen and Alan at the Bath Japanese Festival by Dru Marland

 

Still Points : Moving World  A Performance Writing Exhibition  Fringe Arts Bath, Friday 23rd May to Sunday 8th June 2014

About the gallery:

http://stillpointsmovingworld.wordpress.com/about/

Events including the haiku mini-workshop:

http://stillpointsmovingworld.wordpress.com/about-events/

Writing Haiku
Saturday June 7th, 11am-12pm

A free event and open to everyone.

Haiku are very short poems – generally just three lines long – and are written in simple language, but can be powerfully evocative.

This event is a writing mini-workshop with Alan Summers, who will talk about the history and contemporary practice of combining haiku and art. The workshop includes time for you to write your own haiku inspired by the art work in the exhibition.

Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning and Pushcart Prize nominated poet, who has been studying and writing haiku for over twenty years, and has been published internationally and translated into more than a dozen languages. He loves to teach and run workshops, bringing people to the Asian writing forms, and through his organisation With Words (now Call of the Page) has students all over the English-speaking world.
 
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KAREN HOY

Karen has been published in a number of hai­ku-based publications, including anthologies The Humours of Haiku, edited by David Cobb (Iron Press); and as one of Wales’s haiku pioneers in Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales (Gomer Press) edited by Nigel Jen­kins, Ken Jones and Lynne Rees. She also appears in Mslexia; and Sixfold; My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications 2006); Highly Commended in the BBC Wildlife Magazine’s Nature Writer of the Year competition (2009); as well as Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts.

Karen is the Course Director for With Words (now Call of the Page), and a Teaching Artist for Rooster Moans:

www.poetrycoop.com/poetry-workshops/karen-hoy

www.poetrycoop.com/poetry-workshops/poem-portrait

If you are unable to attend, live elsewhere, or even in a different country, Call of the Page run regular online events:

Call of the Page runs popular online courses in haiku, tanka and other related poetry.

 

Please don't hesitate to contact Karen for further information: admin@callofthepage.org

Karen & Alan bios: https://www.callofthepage.org/about-1/

   

online courses:

https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/online-courses/

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Alan Summers reading at The Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Readathon at the Jane Austen Centre, City of Bath, England

Illustration by Hugh Thomson representing Mr Collins protesting that he never reads novels.

I am very excited to be reading an extract from Pride and Prejudice and urge many of you to enjoy the book yourselves. I've given links to Oxford World’s Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice, and the Jane Austen giftshop.


If you have never seen me read or give a talk before, you may enjoy this recording of a reading on another subject called Amazement of the ordinary, which was a TEDx talk I gave about haiku poetry:
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Amazement-of-the-ordinary-life

The Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Readathon at the Jane Austen Centre this coming Monday (28th January) is from 11am to 11pm. when we celebrate 200 years of this most famous of all books.

“It has one of the most famous opening lines in literature, it turned Colin Firth into a heartthrob and it spawned a zombie spin-off. Now Pride and Prejudice has reached the venerable age of 200.”

Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News

Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen fans celebrate novel's 200th anniversary

Oxford World’s Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice:

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199535569.do#.UQJ4SoXYw7A

Jane Austen giftshop:

http://www.janeaustengiftshop.co.uk/

Weblinks:

http://www.janeausten.co.uk/readathon/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21078941

http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/World-tunes-celebrities-read-Pride-Prejudice-Jane/story-17201065-detail/story.html

An illustration from Pride and Prejudice by
Hugh Thomson (1 June 1860 - 7 May 1920)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thomson

 

This is a live event,  and The Readathon will be linking up with different Jane Austen Societies throughout America and elsewhere throughout the day.

All of us at the centre will be offered the opportunity to dress in Regency costume to get us in the mood.

There will be several spots where Austen experts discuss various aspects of the book.

Many events will also occur at the Jane Austen Centre (40 Gay Street, Bath, BA1 2NT) and is currently closed to the public – it reopens on the 30th January.


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Quest Contemporary Art Gallery Haiku Course

The Haiku Course in Poetry and Art:

• Wk 1. The Golden Ratio of Art through Haiku
• Wk 2. Hemingway's Shoes and Mono no Aware
• Wk 3. Wabi-Sabi and Haiku
• Wk 4. The Gentle Whispers of Haiku
• Wk 5. The Brightness of Balance in Haiku

The Quest Gallery Haiku Sessions:

The Haiku Course at The Quest Gallery

Japan Times award-winning writer Alan Summers has joined with Quest Gallery to develop a unique Haiku poetry course. Each session will be developed in response to the changing exhibitions at Quest Gallery, providing a unique and inspiring environment for learning.

Over the course of 5 weeks, students will experience the fundamental principles that underpin haiku, and apply these to their own poetry that they will develop and refine throughout the course. 

This is a unique opportunity to learn about Japanese poetry, and contemporary art, in the beautiful setting of one of Bath's most prestigious art galleries.

The course includes an event with special guest speakers where students can showcase their own work. There is also the opportunity to contribute haiku to the exhibition catalogue, producing a creative legacy for for both participants and for the gallery.

*Course Outline*

Wk 1. The Golden Ratio of Art through Haiku

Wk 2. Hemingway's Shoes and Mono no Aware

Wk 3. Wabi-Sabi and Haiku

Wk 4. The Gentle Whispers of Haiku

Wk 5. The Brightness of Balance in Haiku

Wednesdays 30 May - 4 July   

(5 week course with one session off for half term)

Times:  6.30 - 8pm

Special Event Date: TBC (Week of 25 June)

Tutor: Alan Summers

Cost: £75 for 5 week course

Concessions: £70

Venue:

Quest Gallery, 7 Margaret's Building, Bath BA1 2LP

http://www.questgallery.co.uk/index.php?id=6

Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

For more details about booking on any of these courses, please don't hesitate to email or contact Sarah at the Quest Gallery on 01225 444142 or email sarah@questgallery.co.uk

Sarah Jenkins

Projects Coordinator

Quest Gallery