HAIKU CREATESHOP;IDEAS; and THE HAIKU WALL

Monday 6th November from 8-10pm
Bath Spa University
Newton Park Campus

Room Ne101 (1st floor lecture room)
Newton building
Bath, U.K.

THIS IS A FREE EVENT

On the virtual tour page here: virtual tour page
It's the building where the girl is coming out into the sunshine, but it will be a bit darker in the evening though! ;-)

The room holds a little over 100 people, and is seconds away from the Student Union Bar (SU Bar) if you'd like to bring in a drink.

This event is open to everybody to find out more about haiku!
What's haiku? Click here first!

This event is to encourage first year students, and other year students, to create an amazing programme that could benefit them and future students.

Everybody can benefit from the evening though, so please do come, find out about haiku, and that it really isn't how it was taught at school:
Why aren't these "haiku" 5-7-5?


Check out ambidextrous for ideas & haiku that I've posted on the comments section:

ambidextrous BSU at Myspace.com


Alan at Myspace.com/haikutec

If you'd like to check out a haiku worksheet I designed, with ideas to combine haiku with other media, by all means take a peek before the night, even print it, write on it and bring it on the night, or just relax with a drink that you got from the SU Bar:

Alan's Haiku worksheet & blog at Myspace



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BUSES & MAPS
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Travelling By Bus: Bright Orange buses (service 418 operated by First) now run every 20 minutes during term-time between Bath city centre and the Newton Park Campus.
(A return ticket currently costs £2.50 but longer length tickets giving big discounts are also available).

Buses to Newton Park leave from Dorchester Street stop Bh (turn left out of the railway station).


For timetable enquiries please call Traveline on 0870 608 2 608, or for customer service please call 0845 606 4446, or visit the FirstGroup website: South West First Group website


Bath Spa map of surrounding area

Overview of Newton Park Campus (Site Code NP) building no.19:
Newton Park Campus

Virtual Tour (crucifix looking building no.19):
Virtual Tour

Click here if you'd like a Virtual Tour of the whole of Newton Park and village etc...

To everybody round Bath and Bristol and beyond, and the students at Newton Park and Sion Hill campuses!

The haiku ideas bustin' event coming up this Monday evening is looking better by the minute.

It'll be great to see some of you!

VENUE/ROOM/TIME:
http://www.myspace.com/bsu_ambidextrous



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WHAT IS HAIKU?
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What is haiku?:
http://www.withwords.co.uk/what.html


SEE RIGHT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EMAIL FOR MORE IDEAS OF HOW TO WRITE HAIKU.



Maybe you might feel like having a go; they're very simple, and best kept real dead simple.

Bring your haiku, whether finished or still in draft, to the Monday night event next week, but please put your own style into haiku, mine is just one of many styles of haiku writing! ;-)


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H A I K U
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Haiku is very transmedia, so if you want to do something extra to "just writing haiku" you can put it to just about anything, even alphabet spaghetti.

It can be as lowtech or as hightech as you want! ;-)

Check out my pasta haiku at pics:
http://www.myspace.com/haikutec



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HAIKU WITH MUSIC
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Sigmatropic put music to Nobel Laureate George Seferis own haiku poems.

Sixteen Haiku and Other Stories / International Project:
a sensual cinematic soundscape adorned with a host of special guest vocalists.

Eighteen artists render their vocals to music based on the poetry of the great Nobel Laureate George Seferis.
http://www.sigmatropic.gr/english/16Haiku_Intern/geninfo.htm
http://www.sigmatropic.gr/


SIGMATROPIC on Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/stropic



Also MICHAEL STIPE and R.E.M. love haiku!
http://mirrorimage.com/haiku/haiku.html
http://www.murmurs.com/

R.E.M. on Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/rem


Maybe drop Michael Stipe and R.E.M. a haiku when you get added as a friend!



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HAIKU WITH OTHER ARTFORMS
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Haiku go with various artforms from fine art to digital media, and beyond.

In fact haiku has hundreds of years of history of being combined with other artforms including prose and/or prose poetry (haibun), ink drawings (sumi-e) with calligraphy, and paintings, with haiku in calligraphy, or hand-writing etc... as haiga, and then there is photo-haiga. ;-)

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haiku & art = haiga
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http://www.photohaiga.com/
http://www.haigaonline.com/


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HAIKU AND COMICS
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Check out the cool Haiku Circus:
http://www.myspace.com/haikucircus


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HAIKU AND MANGA
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Maybe there's even a manga artist amongst you, or a graphic novelist? There were a couple of artists at the last Comics Fair, by Temple Meads Railway station, Bristol. An artist from Sweatdrop Studios has also worked with me on manga.


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GRAPHICS AND DIGITAL MEDIA
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Now with graphics and the digital age, haiga becomes photo-haiga etc...

Got a camera, either an ordinary camera, or a cameraphone or a digital camera etc...?

Take a picture of something or someone, and Photoshop a haiku onto it!

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Digital media: haiku
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http://www.bytestudios.com/winke/
Jeffrey Winke is adjunct university professor of modern poetry, business communication and public speaking in Milwaukee, Wis.
His motion graphics haiku collection, Chances, has been selected as a Cool Site winner.

Millikin University student article:
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/courses/globalSpring2006/TraciRappOnJeffreyWinke.html

Millikin University article about Jeffrey Winke:
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/writerprofiles/TemkinOnWinke.html



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MICRO FILMS/haiku films
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Maybe you'd like to make a short film?

The South West has some of the country's leading short film festivals.

Make some micro films, as they lend themselves to haiku!

Use mini-dv; ordinary video cameras; camera and video grab mobile phones; YouTube etc... etc...



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UNIVERSITIES INVOLVED WITH HAIKU
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Universities in the U.S. (Cornell Unversity and Millikin University) have been involved with haiku for some time now, and Bristol (U.K.) has just become involved too, with another haiku festival planned for next year!

MILLIKIN UNVERSITY:
The Millikin University Haiku web site hosts haiku projects, research and publications for students, faculty and the haiku community:
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/courses/globalSpring2006/

Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A., is well on its way to becoming a distinctive, small University that is nationally recognized for its quality education. For the 14th straight year, U.S. News & World Report magazine has named Millikin University as one of the best colleges in the Midwest. Millikin is ranked 18th in the Midwest in the Best Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor's category:
http://www.millikin.edu/


Cornell Unversity's Mann Library Daily Haiku
http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/about/



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TXT HAIKU
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Or maybe text haiku from your phone to friends and even me?
My contact details are at:
http://www.withwords.co.uk/contact.html


There are also lots of my haiku to check out at:
http://www.withwords.co.uk
at the top of each webpage, just click for a new haiku!

and at:
http://www.myspace.com/bsu_ambidextrous
I've posted a few of mine, and a rather unusual haiku from Japan!



I hope some of you have a go at haiku, in your own way, and bring them to next Monday's event!


ALSO come and visit myspace, maybe become a friend, or not? ;-)
http://www.myspace.com/haikutec
http://www.myspace.com/bsu_ambidextrous
http://www.myspace.com/stropic
http://www.myspace.com/haikucircus
http://www.myspace.com/rem


Please check out Ambidextrous, even leave a comment, or a haiku, or a "haiku comment":
http://www.myspace.com/bsu_ambidextrous

AND/or do the same at my site too!
http://www.myspace.com/haikutec


cheers,

Alan
http://www.withwords.co.uk
http://area17.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/haikutec



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T H E H A I K U I D E A S S H E E T
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Haiku is the world..s shortest poem, and it usually takes 6 seconds to read or say, but it..s much more than that too.

It has kept all kinds of artists intrigued from the 17th century right into the 21st Century.

Haiku (plural of haiku is haiku) don..t have to be just written poems; they can be put with music (any kind of music); or with a photograph as a photo-haiga, or as any kind of fine art; or digital media.

It..s a cross art discipline, it..s transmedia.

Haiku is only limited by the limits we put on it ourselves.

You will probably find your own unique way to add to this old but "constantly contemporary poem/artform called haiku".


Haiku are usually poems that suggest the season, they aren't nature poems as such so you can pick urban subjects as well. You can even do SF haiku if you want!

There are often two images which spark off each other in a haiku poem.
In your own time look for the plain ordinary, easily overlooked, incidents around you.
Look at familiar things with an open mind, and make a few notes.


Usually haiku have two lines for one image, and one line for the other image.

Example:

first image of a haiku poem last bus stop -

second image a girl coughs
into her bubblegum

last bus stop -
a girl coughs
into her bubblegum


And we have the sound, and maybe even the smell of bubblegum.



Try making use of touch; taste; smell; sight; and sound in your haiku.


Example:

spaghetti bolognese- food smells
I sip cooking wine taste and smell of wine
finger dishevelled hair touch


spaghetti bolognese-
I sip cooking wine
finger dishevelled hair


Sound is important in haiku too!

lime quarter
an ice cube collapses
over jazz



kicking
through the leaves
sound of its season



Not all poems can be happy or funny,
so don't feel you have to avoid the big subjects.


the rain
almost a friend
this funeral


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Please feel free to print this out, and use the back of printout
for your ideas; workings out; or decoding/deconstructing haiku
in your own way.

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haiku & haiku worksheet©Alan Summers 2006
http://www.withwords.co.uk
http://area17.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/haikutec


! ! ! ! ! ! ! G O O D L U C K ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Check out Ambidextrous at: http://www.myspace.com/bsu_ambidextrous
re haiku fun time.

Create haiga, music, or micro films to haiku!

Check out haikutec's haiku with art at:
www.myspace.com/haikutec
and Ambidextrous for ideas from me, and time/date of the haiku createshop event that's coming up soon!