International Haiku Spring Festival 2010
Akita, Northern Honshu, Japan
Date: May 12th – 23rd 2010
Location: online festival of sharing poetry
From the web page:
In celebration of the 1st anniversary of the opening of our network, we hold International Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (Akita, Northern Honshu, Japan). This festival is presented in Partnership with 2010 Bath Japanese Festival.
Let’s share haiku! Let’s share haibun!
Let’s share senryu! Let’s share tanka!
What is it?
It is an online festival designed to give our readers an opportunity to share the Japanese short forms of poetry with each other, and enjoy writing and reading haiku, senryu, or tanka.
When is it?
We are happy to announce that the Festival with run from May 12th – 23rd 2010.
Where is it?
On the website of Akita International Haiku Network
Please leave a comment on the Akita site, saying that you would like to participate. You will receive an e-mail from Hidenori Hiruta with his e-mail address.
Visit the festival page for more information.
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May is certainly an exciting month for both Akita, Japan and Bath, England, as we run our sister festivals!
We are running parallel/sister festivals so both International Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (Akita, Northern Honshu, Japan) and 2010 Bath Japanese Festival run concurrently May 12th – May 23rd 2010.
Courtesy of our sister festival, in Akita, we have special guests Masuda Aika（桝田愛佳）a haiga painter, and her mother, Masuda Junko（桝田純子）a haiku poet, coming over to give a taste of haiku and haiga from Japan.
Here is a weblink to the 2010 Bath Japanese Festival:
http://area17.blogspot.com/2010/03/2010-bath-japanese-festival-there-is.html
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CHILDRENS’ AND YOUNG PERSONS’ HAIKU CONTEST
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This competition is in partnership with: both Japanese and British festivals; Judith Gorgone of Planetpals (Worldwide); Karina Klesko of Sketchbook, Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms; and Alan Summers of With Words (UK) all in partnership with the planet to bring the Earthday Haiku Contest.
Kids Count for Earthday 5-7-5 Haiku Contest 2010
http://kidsearthdayhaiku.blogspot.com/2010/03/contest-is-open.html
***ONLY ONE ENTRY PER STUDENT!
Age Groups:
7-9 years old
10-12 yrs old
13-15 yrs old
16-18 yrs old
19-20 yrs old
all my very best,
Alan Summers
Literature Director,
2010 Bath Japanese Festival
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