Report on the Bindii Meeting July 12 2025
Julia Wakefield, Subha Goonaratne, Radhika DeSilva, Udara Thambapanni, Stella Damarjati and Lynette Arden met on Saturday July 12 at 3.30pm, using Zoom. Apologies were received from Maeve Archibald, Ewan Rourke and Maureen Sexton. The attendees all brought some haiku on the two themes of winter and water, as arranged previously. Subha reported on her beginners’ haiku workshop, which was outstandingly successful. She presented it in Sydney in partnership with Leanne Mumford, and they had over 20 attendees. Subha mentioned that she felt the large number of participants was directly due to advertising on social media as well as putting flyers in local libraries, and she was delighted to see that the students consisted of all age groups and many different ethnic backgrounds. She will try to encourage some of the students to join our Zoom group. Lyn also suggested that she direct them to our Haiku Bindii blogspot https://haiku-bindii.blogspot.com to get some idea of what we do. Lyn...