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WHC Haiku News - WHF2003/Holland

 

Important Announcement:
World Haiku Festival in Holland
12-14 September 2003

The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce World Haiku Festival in Holland, which will take place in Leeuwarden, Provincie Friesland, the Netherlands from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 September 2003. During the three-day event, twenty performing participants and Festival guests will meet each other and the general public, as well as other poets who will attend the Festival, in this beautiful city of leafy streets, rich waterways and bicycles.

Haiku has been popular in the Netherlands, especially since around early 1970s and the haiku population is significant in number. The country has recently celebrated the 400 years of Japanese-Dutch relationship which started with the Dutch ship Liefde (love). The Liefde, though shipwrecked, managed to get Dutch people (and the first Englishman to set foot on Japan, William Adams) to this island of the rising sun. The international nature of the haiku movement in this country is also a significant feature as represented by the well-loved and respected magazine, Woodpecker, which sadly had its last issue in the autumn of 2002.

The first day (Friday) of haiku poets’ meeting and socialisation will be followed by a public haiku event on Saturday at the City’s central park when the general public will enjoy haiku reading, music, talks on haiku and personal views and experiences by performing participants. The third day will be again for haiku poets alone, who will visit a local museum and have a debating session, as well as an optional sightseeing.

All those who really wish to enjoy only the sheer pleasure of haiku and the wonderful things it can do to our lives and relationships without indulging in petty and negative haiku politics are most welcome to attend World Haiku Festival in Holland.

For further details, please contact me or Mr. Milivoj Objedovic, WHC’s Director of World Haiku Festival in Holland, at the addresses below.

Kengin and with best wishes,

Susumu Takiguchi
Chairman, The World Haiku Club
Managing Editor, World Haiku Review
E-mail: WHC.takiguchi@susumu.freeserve.co.uk

Milivoj Objedovic
Director of World Haiku Festival in Holland
The World Haiku Club
Groningerstraat  19
8922 AR Leeuwarden
The Netherlands

Telephone: 00 31 58 2135442
Fax: 00 31 58 2165918
Email: m.objedovic@12move.nl

 

[Posted: 22/07/03]

 

 

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