What is World Haiku Festival 2000?  What is World Haiku Festival 2000 all about? Themes, aims and main features The centre-piece: London-Oxford, 25 - 30 August 2000 How to apply, registration and fees Where to stay World Haiku Festival 2000 exhibitions World Haiku Festival 2000 Calendar The World Internet Hatsu-Kukai; 1 January 2000  Introduction How to participate World Haiku Poems Competition World Haiku Essays Competition Useful Information  Frequently Asked Questions Information Centre The organisers and other websites The World Haiku Club Homepage The World Haiku Club Mailing Lists

• A meeting of haiku poets from all corners of the earth
• Aims to disseminate haiku across all barriers, linking people's hearts and minds through haiku
• Seeks to enhance the true understanding of "world haiku" towards the 21st century
• Non-partisan, non-political and no affiliation with propaganda of any kind
• Transcends factionalism, rivalry or any other impediments to the development of "world haiku"
• A precursor to "JAPAN 2001", the Japan Festival to be held in the UK in 2001
• A joint project organised by the The World Haiku Club (WHC) with many other organisations
• The centre-piece event to be held in London and Oxford from 25 to 30 August 2000
• Regional and local voluntary activities across the UK throughout the year 2000
• A charity event to benefit education, good causes and general good
• A "living" on-going project, constantly evolving and growing with fresh ideas and new partners
• The core activities include ginko, kukai, haiku workshops, world haiku poems and essays competitions and exhibitions, haiku readings, public lectures and debates on "world haiku".
• Haiku-related activities include haiku-inspired musical concerts, art exhibitions, and performances as well as different forms of Japanese arts and culture.

•  "World haiku for the 21st century - binding people's minds and hearts together through haiku"  As already mentioned, World Haiku Festival 2000 is non-partisan, non-political and will not allow propaganda or harmful movements of any sorts. People, who support the aims of the Festival, will participate in it on an individual basis, on their merits, rather than representing any particular organisation. There are certain criteria according to which applications and other matters relating participation will be processed (see the account for different applications).

• To disseminate haiku across all barriers, linguistic, cultural, factional and ethnic
• To try to reassess "world haiku" in all aspects in a fundamental way and to seek its new directions in the future
• To encourage debates to be conducted in a fresh, critical, challenging and thought-provoking manner in order to advance our understanding of "world haiku"
• To open up haiku in every way, especially to new audiences, wider world and to different branches of culture
• To expand a world network of like-minded haijin and supporting organisation

• London Haiku Festival and Oxford Haiku Conference (25 - 30 August 2000) as the centre-piece event.
• The Internet World Haiku Network of The World Haiku Club: a world wide debating and meeting colloquium
• World Haiku Poems Competitions
• World Haiku Essays Competition
• Commemorative publications (World Haiku Festival 2000 anthology and a collection of haiku essays. Also, a ceremony to commend and celebrate achievements in haiku, such as publications of distinguished anthologies and haiku-related books by haijin from different parts of the world etc. Please apply for the entry of your achievements.)
• World Haiku Festival 2000 exhibitions (haiku-inspired art exhibitions in August and October and the Festival's haiku achievements exhibition in August. See "World Haiku Festival 2000 Exhibitions" and "Calendar")
• Exchange of people and ideas with other organisations in the world
• Numerous voluntary haiku events taking place throughout the year 2000 across the UK and in some instances in different places in the world

 

World Haiku Festival 2000 Exhibition (Part One) : From Tuesday 15 to Friday 25 August 2000

 From 9.30 am to 5.00 pm weekdays at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP (Regent's Park) Tel: 0171 486 4348 Fax: 0171 486 2914  E-mail: daiwafdn@mailbox.ulcc.ac.uk,
http://www.daiwa-foundation.org.uk
 

Monday  14        Setting up the exhibition and the private viewing
Tuesday 15        6.30 pm Private Viewing
Friday    25        Last day of the exhibition
Sunday  27        Taking down the exhibition
 

Exhibition Room 1 (Park Side): Osamu Asano, Haiku Abstract Paintings: a one-man show of this dynamic and holistic abstract artist from Kamakura, Japan

Exhibition Room 2 (Mews Side): Haiku Exhibition (Leading contemporary Japanese haijin, presented by the Gunma Prefectural Museum of Literature; The World Haiku Achievements to commend and celebrate distinguished achievements in advancing the writing and study of world haiku; other haiku exhibits of high quality. These include anthologies, articles, books on haiku and haiku-related artefacts)

If you wish to have your products shown in the Haiku Exhibition, please apply early stating why you think they qualify to be selected for the Exhibition. Will you also be prepared to lend/donate your products free of charge for a travelling exhibition which will move to The World Haiku Festival 2000 Lending Exhibition to be held in October and November 2000 at the Gunma Prefectural Museum of Literature, Japan? If you have any queries, please contact Chairman of the Festival.
 

World Haiku Festival 2000 Exhibition (Part Two): Throughout October 2000

The Barbican Library, Barbican Centre, London EC2Y 8DC
Enquiries: Barbican Library Tel 020 7638 0569

Haiku-inspired arts: paintings, haiga, pottery, haiku display etc. Musical concerts relating to haiku are also envisaged at Barbican Centre.

"Prelude to HAIKU2000" is the banner under which haiku events have taken place in different parts of the UK and abroad as an integral part of World Haiku Festival 2000.
 

1998
1-3 April	Paper on Matsuo Basho given by Susumu Takiguchi, the annual conference of the British Association for Japanese Studies, at the University of Wales, Cardiff
7 June	Haiga Workshop at the Japan Culture Day, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
22 September	Reading of haiku and Japanese poems at the launch of Penguin Book of Japanese   Verse: Professor G. Bownas and A. Thwaite, Japan Foundation, London
6 October	Launch Reception(Official public UK launch of the World Haiku Festival 2000 project in the(UK), at Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London
14 November	Reading Haiku in Urdu, Manchester Poetry Festival, Rais Academy & World Haiku Festival 2000, Manchester
1999
6-8 April	Paper on Takahama Kyoshi by Susumu Takiguchi given at the annual conference of the British Association for Japanese Studies, King Alfred's College, Winchester
4 May	Poetry reading of Manyo-shu, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London
5 May	Haiku Workshop at Poetry Society, Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London
6 June	Haiga School, Rousham, Oxfordshire
15 June	Official International Launch of the World Haiku Festival 2000 project
16 June	Lecture on Haiku at the Donnington Grove Society, Newbury, England
19 June	Paper on haiku translation by S. Takiguchi at TRIO Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford
8-11 July	Representing World Haiku Festival 2000 at the Haiku North America Conference, Chicago
10 July	Haiku and Music Workshop, St. Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings
11 July	Commentary conducted by Susumu Takiguchi at the First International Contemporary Haiku Symposium organised by Gendai Haiku Kyokai, Tokyo
25-28 August	Haiku and Haiga Workshops at the "Visions 2000" Haiku Conference, Berlin
18-19September	Haiku Workshop at V & A, The Toshiba Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum
29 September	Reception for HAIKU2000 Organisers, London:Guest speaker, Lucien Stryk
17 October	Ginko/Kukai with Japan Society, in Regent's Park and Daiwa House, London
29 October	"Haiku into Music", Talk & Concert with the Takemitsu Society, at Daiwa, London
4 November	Susumu Takiguchi to represent World Haiku Festival 2000 at "The World's Longest Painting - A picture of hope for children", a charity organised by Medecins Sans Frontieres for children in need, Dubai, U. A. E.
1 December	Haiku book launch, by TIME FOR PEACE, Royal Crescent Hotel, Bath
2 December	Haiku Poetry Special, with Farrago Poetry, K & C Lit Fest 1999, London
Continuous	World Haiku Poems Competition & World Haiku Essays Competition

 Provisional (Some events still at "drawing-board" stages only, listed to attract volunteers to offer ideas and help; tba=to be announced) Events are being organised voluntarily under the banner of World Haiku Festival 2000. The Centerpiece Event for the worldwide participants will take place in London and Oxford from 25 to 30 August. Please let the organisers know if you wish your events to be included in World Haiku Festival 2000.

The Year 2000

1 Jan	Inaugurating World Haiku Festival 2000 & The New Year Haiku Festival  "The World Internet Haiku Hatsu-Kukai"- via E-mail, Web Sites.
2 March	Haiku Workshop for the "Japan in Your Classroom" volunteers, JFET, at Japan   Foundation London Language Centre, Knightsbridge, London
1 April	Oxford Haiku Day, with Tandem in Oxfordshire, at the Rivermead Centre, Oxford
10-12 April	2000 British Association for Japanese Studies Conference, University of Birmingham
March/April	Windermere Haiku Festival, Windermere, Lake District (tba)
April	National Conference, British Haiku Society, as the Society's contribution to HAIKU2000
2 May	Haiku Lecture by Susumu Takiguchi for The Japan Society, Oriental Club, London
15 May	Sussex Japan Society/World Haiku Festival 2000/Brighton Festival Event, Brighton
26 May	Haiku & Wine: "In vino veritas, in haiku bellus", Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd, London
23-25 June	Haiku Workshop, the Old Rectory Adult Education Centre, Fittleworth, Pulborough
May/June	Birmingham Haiku Festival, Birmingham (tba)
July	Manchester Haiku Festival, Manchester: collaboration with the Haiku in Urdu (tba)
Aug	Events in connection with the Edinburgh Festival (tba)
15-25 Aug	World Haiku Festival 2000 Exhibition, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese House, London
25-30 Aug	The Main Event of World Haiku Festival 2000 (Dates definite)  These are the six days when haiku-loving poets from around the world will gather together to celebrate the Festival and have fun, heated debates and many more.  London Haiku Festival (25-27 Aug) & Oxford Haiku Conference (28-30 Aug)
October	World Haiku Festival 2000 Exhibition, Barbican Centre, London (throughout October)  York Haiku Festival, York (tba)
5 Oct	Event in collaboration with National Poetry Day, London (tba)  Event in collaboration with the Royal Society of Arts (tba)
8 Oct	Event in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, London (tba)
11 October	Haiku Day at the Donnington Grove Society, Newbury, Berkshire
December	Christmas Welsh Haiku Festival, Cardiff, Wales (tba)