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WHC Events - WHF2003 Holland

The Programme
of the WHF in Holland 2003

World Haiku Festival
A Gateway to World Haiku in the 21st Century

World Haiku Festival in Holland

FRIDAY 12 – SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2003

LEEUWARDEN, THE NETHERLANDS

WELCOME

The Two Themes of World Haiku Festival in Holland:

(1) To celebrate the creation of a new world-wide printed haiku magazine “World Haiku Review” of the World Haiku Club, which is planned to start in Spring 2004. Upon its inauguration, the WHC’s current online magazine will be renamed to become “World Haiku Review OnLine”.

(2) To bring a world-wide dimension to European haiku. Strengths of Europe include its diversity and long and rich history. To this, we wish to add a wider outlook from which we operate, as negative parochialism, regional rivalry or isolation, or cliquish narrow-mindedness is observed and needs to be addressed. Needless to say, this does not mean globalisation or homogenisation of haiku as some wrongly predicted. Originality, newness and individuality can be derived only from the diversity of the local soil.

WORLD HAIKU FESTIVAL IN HOLLAND

PROGRAMME

Friday 12 September 2003 (Day 1)

Participants (20 invited participants and other participants and friends) to arrive in Leeuwarden. Voluntary activities such as renku session, ginko and kukai.

Evening meal with participants at Milivoj Objedovic’s residence: Welcome by Susumu Takiguchi (5 minutes), A guest speech at coffee (15 minutes) and any announcements

Conference accommodation:

Hotel Campanile

Wergeasterdijk 1

9084 AS Goutum

Leeuwarden

The Netherlands

Tel: +31-58-288-06-05

Fax: +31-58-288-06-35

E-mail:   LEEUWARDEN@campanile.com

Website:

http://www.book-a-hotel-in-leeuwarden.com/nl/hotel/campanile/leeuwarden/

Saturday 13 September 2003 (Day 2)

Visit Natural History Museum in the morning (optional)

Lunch (at Milivoj Objedovic’s residence)

13:30 Registration

Move to the Festival venue in the central part of Leeuwarden

14:30 The Festival opens.

Welcome speech and the official celebration of WHC's new global haiku magazine: World Haiku Review by Susumu Takiguchi, Chairman, The World Haiku Club (10 minutes)

Greetings by the representative of Leeuwarden City (15 minutes)

Declaration of the opening of the Festival by the representative of Provincie Friesland, “The World Haiku Festival in Holland is now officially open” (5 minutes)

15:00   Workshop: An introduction to haiku with examples by Sylvia Forges-Ryan

(1 hour)

16:00   Ten-minute break

16:10   Haiku Reading (Part I) Ask the readers to read slowly (20 minutes) 10 poets

16:30   Music (a classical guitarist, Ljubisa Pavlovic and ask him to choose pieces of music which reflect haiku poems by old masters, Basho, Buson and Issa) (15 minutes)

16:45  “What Haiku Means to Me – Personal Views on Haiku” (Part I) by 2 haiku poets (e.g. Klaus-Dieter Wirth, Visnja McMaster) (15 minutes)

17:00   Music (Neven Valand & Night Light) (15 minutes)

17:15   Haiku Reading (Part II) (20 minutes) 10 poets

17:35   “What Haiku Means to Me – Personal Views on Haiku” (Part II) by 2 haiku poets (e.g. Ion Codrescu, David E. LeCount) (15 minutes)

17:50   Concluding speech by Milivoj Objedovic (10 minutes)

18:00   Close of “the general public” section

BREAK (there is a paying bar in the restaurant and those who wish to talk to the haiku poets can meet them there)

19:30   Dinner (at Milivoj Objedovic’s residence)

Sunday 14 September (Day 3)

10:00   Visit Friesland Museum (history of the city)

11:00   World Haiku Festival haiku poets’ meeting

           The key-note speech by Bruce Ross (30 minutes speech, 15 minutes Q & A)

11:45   Paper by Ion Codrescu: Basho and Brueghel – Two Approaches to Nature

             Paper by Klaus-Dieter Wirth: Difficulties in translating haiku – German case

Open debate: topics to be decided (e.g. some haiku issues such as “Ten Most Obvious Problems in World Haiku”, “Haiku in the Balkans”, “Where Should the World Haiku Go from Here?”)

13:00  Lunch (at Milivoj Objedovic’s residence) & disperse

         There will be an optional paying and voluntary (i.e. no previously arranged plans) sight-seeing of the City of Leeuwarden and/or its environ for those who want it.

Some Haiku by Performing Participants

Long ago

...I would have picked

............these violets

Sylvia Forges-Ryan

The scent of lilac

suddenly snatched by the wind

away from my nose.

Klaus-Dieter Wirth

changing colour

with seasons, the neighbour’s

bouquet on my desk

Višnja McMaster

lazy afternoon

the geranium’s shadow rustles

with the geranium

Bruce Ross

round the lake

a distant cloud disappears

behind the mountain

Ion Codrescu

cable car—

the sound of thunder

between hills

Dejan Bogojević

autumn morning—

river-mist rising

and sheep’s breath

Norman Darlington

spring cleaning

I find the key to the house

we no longer share

John R. Snyder

summer lightning

revealing in the night

the hidden paths

Moussia Fantoli

shell

what remains of the lake

in one hand

Feu Violet

the wind shapes

the sand dune

shapes the wind

David E. LeCount

Along the beach:

you can hear a boat

and a fishermen’s song

Sunčica Šamec

Last words spoken—

    I listen to the sound

         of my breath

Sylvia Forges-Ryan

seen off

by the full moon, my father

makes his last journey

Susumu Takiguchi

Some Goodwill Messages:

Dear Mr. Milivoj Objedovic,

Greetings and congratulations on the opening of the World Haiku Festival in Holland! May this gathering of haiku poets from around the world enjoy a great sharing of poems and views on haiku, haibun, and related literature.

I join the many who wish you great success, and look forward to seeing the results of some of your activities on the web site of the the World Haiku Club.

With best wishes,

Bill Higginson

William J. Higginson
P. O. Box 1402
Summit, NJ 07902 USA
1-908-273-7170 tel & fax
Personal Web Pages:
http://renku.home.att.net
http://wordfield.home.att.net
Info for Program Chairpersons:
http://www.speakersonasiantopics.org/Bios/Bill_H.htm
Open Directory Project Editor:
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry/Forms/Haiku_and_Related_Forms/
wordfield@att.net

Dear Haiku Friends,

This world is still very large, though subjectively we may think otherwise now and then; but when we hear of a World Haiku Festival and look around in the present circle of participants we may humbly realise this fact. These people, who have gone to such pains to be present here, in a way represent the globe, of which we know it is in such a sorry state because of our own human activities; pollution of light, air, water and soil, extinction of fishes and animals, murder and rape of our fellow beings are the order of the day and everyday news. But presently a tiny band of poets has gathered in the town of Leeuwarden, united by haiku, which is a very deeply felt bond; and not a mutual bond only, it is essentially a bond which unites us with nature itself and so indeed with the whole of the Earth around us. We may strive to develop a consciousness of the fact that it is ?a quarter past twelve’ in this aspect: the Spirits of Nature anxiously await the moment that we humans will awaken and take on responsibility for our actions and begin to change our attitude.

One of the ways to feel this responsibility towards our surroundings is the Haiku Way. If we follow this way properly, we will do so without selfishness, without aiming at fame or attention for our own small private person. Basho wrote:

hang on the willow
all the desire, all the loathing
of your heart

thereby underlining what I meant above.

The love of haiku is unconditional. The true haiku poet will refrain from naming his own person in his poem; he will not judge, even less condemn the subject of his poetry, but filter it through his soul in such a way that the reader may experience in an enhanced way whatever the poet has observed. This unselfish attitude, I know, is very hard to attain. But in reading one’s own or somebody else’s haiku we will know at once where the true thing emerges: it goes to the reader’s heart straightaway.

These few words I wish to send to you at the start of this event. I know how much energy my good friend and postovani Milivoj has put into his preparations. He is a very hard working man and very hospitable in the bargain, as you all will notice these days. I know it was a wish of his that I should have been present in person to speak these words, but there are several important reasons for my absence, both physical and private, and I do hope that you will all forgive me and accept my apologies. Susumu Takiguchi, whom I met in Folkestone in 1997 though he seems to have forgotten, also asked for my coming to this meeting; and in the end I decided that a written speech might be the representation of my good will towards you all.

I hope too that you will communicate in a free and positive way these days. There may be talk about the establishing of a new international organisation and the founding of a new magazine. As I have said above, it is my opinion that the art of haiku is served by organisations and periodicals only if these are completely free of personal interests. I know that in the world of literature power is held by those who dominate the international associations and magazines. The reason for this is that many people think that to be published is equal to being somebody. In an exterior sense this maybe true; but to be famous or well known is not the same thing as being a true haijin. This latter requires us to follow the ?Narrow Road to the Deep North’ - a lonesome road, to be sure, but the only real one.

It is my sincere wish that you all may do some steps on this Road. Have a good meeting, all of you! And may your souls be touched by your surroundings as mine was, when I wrote:

summer shower
the old flintstone too
has grown wet

Wim Lofvers

To all the participants of the WHF in Leewarden, the Netherlands

Deeply regretting that personally I am, unfortunately, prevented from participating in your gathering, I would like to express my most cordial greetings and best wishes to all haiku friends at the festival.

May this cherished poetic form of ours, this kiss of the song of life, be a blessing to men and women of good will, and produce brotherhood among all those with pure hearts, poetic minds and the capacity for serene admiration of the wonders of life, all of which the haiku can convey and communicate.

Vladimir Devidé

Honorary Life President,

Association of Croatian Haiku Poets

PARTICIPANTS, OFFICIALS & SPONSORS

PERFORMING PARTICIPANTS

Bogojević, Dejan (Serbia and Monte Negro)

Codrescu, Ion (Romania)

Darlington, Norman (Ireland)

Doderović, Zoran (Serbia and Monte Negro)

Fantoli, Moussia (Italy)

Fantoli, Mr. (Moussia's husband, Italy)

Faulkner, Debi (Holland)

Forges-Ryan, Sylvia (USA)

Kocjančić, Darja (Slovenia)

LeCount, David E (USA)

LeCount, Arla, wife (USA)

McMaster, Višnja (Croatia)

Objedović, Dario (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Objedović, Milivoj (Bosnia-Herzegovina, resident of Holland)

Py, Daniel (France)

Prokopiev, Alksandar (Macedonia)

Ross, Bruce (USA)

Šamec, Sunčica (Croatia)

Snyder, John R. (USA)

Takiguchi, Susumu (Japanese living in UK)

Violet, Feu (Italian living in UK)

Wirth, Klaus-Dieter (Germany)

Key-note speaker: Dr. Bruce Ross

Festival message: William J. Higginson

Festival message: Willem Lofvers

Festival message: Professor Vladimir Devidé

SPONSORS

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Fryslan

Provincie Friesland

Gemeente Leeuwarden

OFFICIALS

Susumu Takiguchi, Chairman, The World Haiku Club

Milivoj Objedović, Director of World Haiku Festival in Holland, The World Haiku Club

Sunčica Šamec, General Secretary, World Haiku Festival in Holland, The World Haiku Club

Draga Groeneweg, General Manager, World Haiku Festival in Holland, The World Haiku Club

Dario Objedović, Communications Manager, World Haiku Festival in Holland, The World Haiku Club

Paul Conneally, “The Bush Warbler” world-wide online walk project, World Haiku Festival in Holland, Education and Regional Director, The World Haiku Club

THE WORLD HAIKU CLUB

HQ, THE WORLD HAIKU CLUB:
Leys Farm, Rousham, Bicester
Oxfordshire OX25 4RA   England

Tel: +44 (0) 1869 - 340261 Fax: +44 (0) 1869 - 340619

E-mail:  WHC.takiguchi@susumu.freeserve.co.uk
Central Website:   http://www.worldhaikuclub.org
Magazine: http://www.worldhaikureview.org

Established in 1998, The World Haiku Club (WHC) is an independent comprehensive world-wide network of haiku poets. WHC aims at uniting people’s hearts and minds through haiku and encourages voluntary activities in all parts of the world under the common banner of “World Haiku Festival”. Being a broad church, WHC endorses different schools of thought and individuals of different views, taking the side of no single school. It is non-political, non-religious and non-factional, and it is against any negative haiku politics or any form of abuse which hinders healthy development of the world haiku movement. Accordingly, WHC celebrates and supports diversity, individualism and local initiatives. Moreover, while cherishing and upholding traditional values, WHC encourages innovation, experiment and new talents. Also, though rooted in historical values, WHC’s outlook is to the future. Its dynamism and creative evolution involve critical reassessment of all conventional wisdom and a serious search for ways in which haiku can develop in the future under two main mottoes: “Challenging Conventions” and “Charting Our Future”. The ultimate objective of WHC is summarised in the words of Basho: “fuga-no-makoto”, or poetic sincerity, honesty and truths and “fueki-ryuko”, or permanent values and poetic innovation.

WORLD HAIKU REVIEW

A new type of comprehensive world-wide online haiku magazine, the first of its kind. Launched successfully in May 2001, World Haiku Review (WHReview) seeks the highest standards and quality in the creation and study of haiku poetry and related poetic genres and has established world-wide reputation. Though the in-house organ for the benefit of WHC members, WHReview also aims at communicating with non-WHC friends and guests around the world. We plan to start a new printed world-wide haiku magazine from Spring 2004. On its inauguration, it will be called “World Haiku Review” and the current online version will be renamed as “World Haiku Review OnLine”.

HOW TO FIND OUT ABOUT WHC

(1) First and foremost, visit our central website for a quick look at what it’s all about: http://www.worldhaikuclub.org;

(2) Take a close look at our magazine at: http://www.worldhaikureview.org;

(3) Join WHC by applying for a subscribed membership of WHChaikuforumworkshop, our flagship mailing list, and/or other lists, which is explained in (1) and (2).

Susumu Takiguchi

Chairman, The World Haiku Club

THE WORLD HAIKU CLUB: Honorary President, James W. Hackett; Chairman, Susumu Takiguchi

World Haiku Festival : Patrons, His Excellency Mr. Masaki Orita, Japanese Ambassador; Professor Kazuo Sato

Supporting Organisations:  Poetry Society, Global Haiku Festival, Haiku Society of America, Modern Haiku Association of Japan, Haiku North America, Oxford Brookes University, National Poetry Day, Ehime-Ken Matsuyama Declaration, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Literature, Constantza Haiku Society-Romania, Association of Croatian Haiku Poets, Obayashi Seisakusho, Japan Festival Education Trust, Barbican Centre, British Library, SOAS, Donnington Grove Society, Embassy of Japan, BBC, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Foundation, Japan Society, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

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