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Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group Meeting 1 October 2016

The Bindii group met at 12.30, at the Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide. Belinda Broughton gave a comprehensive workshop on haiga. She started with a PowerPoint presentation that included examples of the different styles of haiga, from the traditional Japanese forms and simple brush drawings to modern photo haiga and many other examples, such as collage. Belinda also showed some of her own haiga in different styles, including some on rice paper, and sketch book notes, and others that had been derived from her photos, or sketched electronically in various computer programs. Various viewpoints about haiga were discussed, chiefly differing in relation to the closeness of text to image that each considered to be desirable. The workshop then went to the practical aspect of constructing a haiga. Members were provided with blank sheets of paper and writing instruments (pencil and black Texta). We were asked to make a series of marks on the different sheets that depicted our o