Art School of Constantza
Through the
dedication and work of Sonia Cristina Coman, WHC's World Haiku Ambassador, the
Japanese Culture and Civilisation Centre has been founded in Romania. Haiku is
being introduced to the school children and haiku lessons have been presented
and distributed to teachers and haiku poets. The series of haiku lessons,
written by WHC Director of Schools, Mrs. Ferris Gilli, were produced in
collaboration with WHC at the request of Miss Coman. The translations were
overseen and edited by Ms. Laura Vacenu, Preseident of the Haiku society of
Constantza.
Miss Coman's essay-report, Part
III of Should Haiku be
Introduced to Elementary School Education in Romania? appears in
this issue's feature column, "Haiku in Education". In her report, you
can read about the exciting beginnings of "Haiku in
Romanian Education: The Japanese Culture
and Civilisation Centre of Constantza, Romania".
To date, one of
the most successful meetings of the Japanese Culture and Civilisation Centre
(founded by Miss Coman) has been a ginko (haiku walk) at the Black Sea Coast.
This meeting was in honour of WHC's World Haiku Festival 2002, which took place
at Yuwa-Town, Akita, Japan, in September 2002. The poems presented
here are the first attempts of the Romanian high-school participants in
writing haiku. They were translated into English during a haiku meeting at
the Japanese Culture and Civilisation Centre, in which the students read their
poems, composed at the ginko. Two Romanian haiku poets, Ms. Laura Vaceanu,
President of the Haiku Society of Constantza, and Mr. Radu Patrichi,
Vice-President of the Haiku Society of Constantza, were invited to the meeting
to present their understanding of haiku to the students.
Miss Coman writes:
"For now,
students are learning what means to write haiku.
With time, students are expected to write more and more poems and,
hopefully, better and better."
Photo-haiku by Sonia Cristina
Coman, age 14, Constantza, Romania
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"Haiku in Romanian Education: The Japanese Culture and
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