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Parade of Arts: Children's Haiku #1 Barton Hill Primary School, Bristol, UK

 

WHC and Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery held haiku workshops with adults and youngsters for 6 days in October. Paul Conneally, WHC's Regional and Education Director, was "Mr.Haiku" for the Fun Sunday event at the start of the festival week as their haiku poet in residence. Paul writes:

I loved working with the children as they made them. I only had an hour and a bit to introduce haiku to the group from scratch. We were working in the gallery space at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery using the "Parade of Life" exhibition of Japanese Prints as starting points - the workshop was to introduce haiku but also to get the children to look closely at the prints and engage with them - connect in some way across time and cultures - I hope that you enjoy them - the children were marvelous and working with them was life-affirming!

In the last few, the children employed the same visualisation techniques as with the prints, in order to start engaging with moments from their own lives.

Paul Conneally
Loughborough, UK
WHC Regional & Education Director

Below are haiku from the Monday morning workshop with the children of Bristol. All the children in this workshop are from Barton Hill Primary School, Bristol ,and attended with Aidan Moesby, a poet who had been working with them at their school as part of Bristol Poetry Festival (but not on haiku poetry). These are all the (unedited) poems produced from their session

 

7-8 year olds

waves taller than the sun frost flies aaron	waves crashing through the air people getting squashed kristian
cold soggy day - boats getting trapped in a wave jordan	cold and snowy no people in the sea samantha
really snowy on an island really thick clothes jordan	bright sunshine a woman cutting reeds very slowly jazzmin
sleepy day people cutting flowers and weeds chloe	it's so hot people all around feel sleepy chloe
men making rafts men wearing white hats hot karl	feel cold taste grass hear echoes tosh
dragon floating to his mountain home boy in mouth aaron	a kite flying in the air a boy on his mum's back keiran
splish splash splosh people fishing by a waterfall charlotte	summer's day - two people having tea by a nice house tosh
chucking it down ladies dancing in the rain charlotte	red leaves blowing through the air people looking anon.
moonlit geese the beginning of autumn keiran	geese flying in the moonlight dark and wet anonymous
swords cut feet night battle karl and luke	massive swords wave through the air an angry samurai martin
Haiku from Children's & Teacher's Lives
sunny but cold children screaming through the park anon. girl	watching out the window looking at all the cars lonely on my own jordan
going down the curled bowl kids on bikes anon.	playing with a TV chilling out bored as an ant martin
hustle and bustle DIYists busy with heads full of bright ideas mrs. white	red and pink watching TV in my bedroom jazzmin
playing on the playstation getting annoyed anon.	I'm looking  for my brother he's gone missing I'm scared anon.
walking out the door walk up the road into school jade	a balloon in the strong wind flying to the mountains keiran

 

Parade of Arts WHC/Bristol Children's Haiku Workshop #2

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