Haiku Bindii

On a very cold, windy day, with a threatening storm we were pleased to welcome seven members for the haibun workshop presented by Maeve Archibald at the Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide. The workshop commenced at 12.30. Maeve Archibald presented a detailed workshop, starting with an exploration of the varieties of haibun being written and then suggesting various ways of approaching the construction of a haibun. Maeve accompanied this with a succession of stimulus exercises.    Maeve has supplied a detailed description of her haibun workshop. See below the report on the meeting.   Maeve will present the second instalment of her two haibun workshops at our next meeting on 7 October. Maeve distributed a writing exercise to members and the resultant haibun will be workshopped at the October meeting.   Lynette Arden gave a vote of thanks to Maeve for her comprehensive, thought provoking workshop.   The workshop finished at 2.3...

Maeve Archibald will present a haibun workshop. Haibun are a combination of haiku and image, or tanka and image. The workshop will run from 12.30 to 2.30. Address: The Box Factory 59 Regent St South ADELAIDE For enquiries please email:  haikubindii@gmail.com

Ten members of the Bindii group attended a tanka workshop led by Dawn Colsey and Lynette Arden at the Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide. Lee Bentley, as chair of the meeting, welcomed the presenters at 12.30. Some written material had been distributed to members by email prior the meeting and links to further articles are displayed on Bindii Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150474291637982/ Several members brought in a range of journals and books containing tanka, so all could share a range of published work. The workshop started with some thoughts on tanka styles discussed by Dawn and Lynette, with examples from both Japanese and English language writers. Members were then invited to select a favourite tanka, from the journals that had been distributed, and write it on the whiteboard for discussion.

The Bindii workshop on 3 June, coordinated by Dawn Colsey and Lyn Arden, will look at 'what makes a tanka work'. Meeting time: 12.30 - 2.30 in the Box Factory, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide. Members will receive more detail by email. If you are not a member and wish to attend, please contact us on haikubindii@gmail.com

On a beautiful autumn day, seven members of the Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group met for a ginko in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Adelaide Botanic Gardens We gathered at the Simpson Kiosk near the Main Lake at 11 am. The morning had a real taste of the coolness of autumn, and members remarked on the number of magpies they had seen while getting to the meeting place. Our ginko leader for the day was Lee Bentley and other members present were:   Lynette Arden, Margaret Fensom, Belinda Broughton, Ervin Janek, Dawn Colsey and Maeve Archibald. After a brief orientation by Lee, we spent the next hour wandering individually to different spots in these magnificent gardens, taking notes, jotting down haiku and tanka and taking photos of any features that seemed of significance. At noon, we gathered for lunch at the Simpson Kiosk, sitting out on the paved area under the shade of spreading trees with ducks and waterhens wandering by our feet an...

Our April meeting will be a  ginko in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, led by Lee Bentley. Meet at 11 a.m. at the Botanic Gardens Café near the central lake. A ginko is a haiku walk. Further details will be emailed to those interested by Lee Bentley. If you have not been to a meeting of this group before and would like to attend the ginko, please email us at haikubindii@gmail.com

HAIKU DAY ON 5 MARCH as part of the Spoken Word Exhibition   at the State Heritage Onkaparinga Woollen Mill in Lobethal from 4 -19 March, 2017. Commencing Sunday, 5 March from 1.00 – 3.00 pm a Haiku Workshop conducted by Julia Wakefield-Houghton Printmaker, Illustrator and Teacher, followed by Haiku readings by members of Haiku Bindi, Belinda Broughton, Lyn Arden, Jill Gower and Maeve Archibald. A short introduction to the rules and how we can break them will be followed by a series of writing exercises. Hopefully a few original haiku will result! Julia is a member of the only SA poetry group dedicated to writing Japanese style poetry in English. Participation in the Haiku Workshop is by gold coin donation. Bookings arranged by contacting Anne Griffiths on 0431 374 616. During this event we will also have a Haiku wall, which the public will be invited to contribute to. At the end of the session at 2:45 we will have a performance by a Capella group Eclectica. The...