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WHC Joins a London Haiku Evening with PRO ART
HAIKU-INSPIRATION-IMAGE

 

On 22 September 2001, the World Haiku Club joins PRO ART’s special evening event called “HAIKU-INSPIRATION-IMAGE”, at Art Salon, located at a prestigious address in the Knightsbridge area of London.

PRO ART is an esteemed event organising group with its focus on art and culture, promotion and presentation. This special haiku evening is organised as part of JAPAN 2001, a year-long nation-wide festival with celebrations of Japanese art and culture in the UK. WHC is heavily involved in JAPAN 2001, helping many schools, local governments, regional cultural and literary bodies and community centres in their earnest efforts to learn haiku and make it a lasting interest and teaching process. PRO ART’s contribution to the promotion of Japanese art and culture through their exhibitions and demonstrations as JAPAN 2001 events is significant. WHC is delighted and honoured to be invited to play a small part in this worthy cause.

For 22 September, WHC’s Chairman, Susumu Takiguchi, presides over the special haiku evening. From America, Debi Bender, WHC’s Development Advisor & Editor-in-Chief of World Haiku Review, flies in as a special guest to the event and joins the panel of ten distinguished poets and scholars. Paul Conneally, WHC’s Education & Regional Director, also travels from Loughborough, near Leicester, UK to join the panel. Also, Alison Williams, a UK university librarian, Mentor of WHCbeginners and an active member of WHC joins the panel.

By way of explaining “HAIKU-INSPIRATION-IMAGE”, Takiguchi delivers an introductory public lecture on haiku and then chairs the the panel members in the haiku reading of their own personally selected haiku. This is followed by a panel discussion on various aspects of haiku. The event aims at demonstrating how, in real terms, haiku is playing its role in terms of popularising poetry, promoting international friendship and enhancing wider understanding of cross-cultural influence. Haiku is spreading across the world like a wild fire. The aims set for the haiku evening are identical with the aims of WHC, which was set up with the view to implement them in all parts of the world.

Other distinguished members of the panel are: -

Professor Ricardo Duranti, Professor of English Literature at Rome University, Italy

Dr. David Platt, an academic and scientist at the University of Glasgow. Lectures on haiku in the UK and Japan, UK.

Alan Summers, a well-known international haiku poet. Founder of “HADAKA NO HAIJIN”, a trans-media project, member of international haiku organisations and mailing lists, former General Secretary of British Haiku Society, UK.

John Barlow, Founder and owner of Snapshot, a prestigious international haiku magazine, Editor of the Haiku Calendar, UK.

Ana Maria Crowe Serrano, teacher and translator (Italian and Spanish), Dublin, Ireland

Carrie Etter, writer and an academic, active haiku poet having had works published in many haiku magazines, USA

David Walker, an artist, writer, sculptor and a lecturer, current General Secretary of British Haiku Society, UK

 

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