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HNA 2011 Schedule

The following schedule is subject to changes and updates. Room names are in the Northwest Rooms of Seattle Center. Most sessions end 10 minutes before the hour. A bookfair schedule will be posted separately (Fidalgo Room).

 

Thursday August 4
Friday August 5
Saturday August 6
Sunday August 7

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

 

 

Sunrise: 5:49 am        Sunset: 8:41 pm          Moonrise: 11:01 am   Moonset: 10:13 pm

 

Time

Orcas

Lopez

Shaw

Elsewhere

9:00 am

Setup and load in of bookfair, registration tables, haiga, and all other exhibits (until 4:30 pm)

 

1:00 pm

 

 

 

Registration opens at Fidalgo Room

1:00 pm

 

Peggy Booth of Ikebana International arranges three ikebana installations for HNA

 

 

1:30–4:30 pm

 

 

 

Meet at the Fidalgo Room at 1:30 pm for the optional haiku walk to the Olympic Sculpture Park and the Seattle waterfront, led by Katharine Hawkinson

4:30–6:00 pm

 

 

 

Early dinner at local restaurants (we’ll try to form groups)

6:00 pm

 

Dessert reception

Sponsored by Modern Haiku

 

 

7:00 pm

 

Open reading of haiku and senryu

Moderated by Michael Dylan Welch and Tanya McDonald

 

 

8:30 pm

 

Anonymous haiku workshop

Anonymous gendai haiku workshop

 

9:30 pm

 

 

 

MarQueen Hotel meeting room: Rengay writing session, led by Michael Dylan Welch

 

Thursday

Thursday, 4 August 2011

 

 

Sunrise: 5:50 am        Sunset: 8:40 pm          Moonrise: 12:20 pm   Moonset: 10:42 pm

 

Time

Orcas

Lopez

Shaw

Elsewhere

8:00 am

 

 

Don Baird: Tai Chi Ch’uan—Waking Your Haiku Mind (new writing exercise each day)

 

9:00 am

 

Michael Dylan Welch: Opening remarks, followed by participant reading of the 2011 HNA conference anthology, facilitated by editors Michael Dylan Welch and Ruth Yarrow

 

 

10:00 am

Ruth Yarrow: Putting Our Own Early Awareness of Race into Haiku

Minako Noma: Shiki’s Haiku Revolution

Jim Kacian: Monophilia: The History and Practice of One-Line Haiku in English

 

11:00 am

Haiku Sharing (unmoderated session to share your haiku)

Richard Tice: Location, Location, Location! Place in Haiku

Garry Gay: Celebrating 20 Years: Rengay Workshop

 

12:00–1:30 pm

 

 

 

Lunch at local restaurants (we’ll try to form groups)

1:30–2:30 pm

 

“What Makes Canadian Haiku Canadian” Panel Discussion: With Bruce Ross, Jessica Tremblay, and Michael Dylan Welch, chaired by Terry Ann Carter

Sponsored by Haiku Canada

 

 

2:45 pm

 

Meet at Lopez Room at 2:45 pm for walk to the monorail station

 

Urban kukai: 15-minute walk to the Seattle Monorail station, monorail to downtown, then your choice to visit Seattle Art Museum (free today) or Pike Place Market (a walk of about 10 to 15 minutes)

5:00 pm

 

 

 

Dinner downtown (Pike Place or elsewhere), or return by monorail early

5:30 pm

 

 

 

Free blues-rock concert at Olympic Sculpture Park, featuring Daisy Chain, 5:30–7:30 pm (plus art activities until 8:30 pm); 6:30 pm, Paccar Pavillion, “Art Hits” tour, led by Barbara Brotherton, Curator of Native American Art

7:00 pm

 

 

 

Last time to catch the monorail back to Seattle Center (plan your time carefully)

7:30 pm

 

Haibun reading, featuring Cor van den Heuvel reading from A Boy’s Seasons, and other readers, plus video renku by Eve Luckring

 

 

8:20 pm

 

Break

 

 

8:30 pm

 

“Developing Haiku Book Manuscripts” Panel Discussion: With Jim Kacian,  Charles Trumbull, and Don Wentworth, chaired by Michael Dylan Welch

 

 

10:00 pm

 

 

 

MarQueen Hotel meeting room: Late-night renku session, led by Billie Dee

 

Friday

Friday, 5 August 2011

 

 

Sunrise: 5:52 am        Sunset: 8:38 pm          Moonrise: 1:37 pm     Moonset: 11:15 pm

 

Time

Orcas

Lopez

Shaw

Elsewhere

8:00 am

 

 

Don Baird: Tai Chi Ch’uan—Waking Your Haiku Mind (new writing exercise each day)

 

9:00 am

 

“Starting and Running a Haiku Group” Panel Discussion: With Debbie Kolodji, Abigail Friedman, Carmen Sterba, and Tanya McDonald, chaired by Michael Dylan Welch.

Sponsored by Haiku Northwest.

 

 

10:00 am

Wanda Cook: Some Like It Hot: Erotic Haiku

Emiko Miyashita: Haiku Food, Eat Kigo!

Bruce Ross: Spaciousness as a Key Element in Haiku

 

11:00 am

 

Memorial Reading: Honoring Haiku Poets Who Have Passed Away in the Last Two Years

Presented by Marjorie Buettner

 

 

11:45 am

 

2011 HNA Group Photo

Taken by Garry Gay (free printed copies to be distributed at the banquet)

 

 

12:00–1:30 pm

 

 

 

Lunch at local restaurants (we’ll try to form groups)

1:30–2:30 pm

Emiko Miyashita: JAL Foundation Contest: Reading of Haiku by Children

Sponsored by the JAL Foundation

Eve Luckring: Video Renku: Link and Shift in Visual Language

Carlos Cólon: Exploring Concrete Poetry and Haiku

 

3:00 pm

Penny Harter: Exploring Haibun (workshop)

Makoto Nakanishi: Fight for Haiku! The Annual Haiku Tournaments Fought by Nationwide High Schools in Matsuyama, Japan

David Lanoue: Frogs and Poets: What’s the Difference (to Issa)? A Presentation and Discussion

 

4:00 pm

 

The Poetry Continuum: Anything But Haiku Reading: Open mic for longer poetry (no haiku, senryu, haibun, or linked verse)

 

 

5:00 pm

 

 

 

Dinner at local restaurants (we’ll try to form groups)

6:00 pm

 

 

 

Concert at the Mural (south of Center House): Musicians, until 8:00 pm:

The Maldives

Hey Marseilles

Black Whales

7:00 pm

 

Open Reading for Poets with New Books and Anthologies

Moderated by Michael Dylan Welch

 

 

8:00 pm

 

Break

“Urban Kukai” submission deadline

 

 

8:10 pm

 

Higginson Memorial Lecture: Richard Gilbert: Social Consciousness and the Poet’s Stance in 21st Century Haiku: From Kaneko Tohta to the Present

 

 

9:00 pm

 

Haiku Bowl: Teams will be formed to test haiku knowledge in a fun contest with nonvaluable prizes! Jim Kacian will moderate, and Charles Trumbull will serve as timekeeper/adjudicator.

Sponsored by the Haiku Foundation

 

 

10:30 pm

 

 

 

MarQueen Hotel meeting room: Late-night renku session, led by Billie Dee

 

Saturday

Saturday, 6 August 2011

 

 

Sunrise: 5:53 am        Sunset: 8:37 pm          Moonrise: 2:53 pm     Moonset: 11:54 pm (1Q at 4:08 am)

 

Time

Orcas

Lopez

Shaw

Elsewhere

8:00 am

 

 

Don Baird: Tai Chi Ch’uan—Waking Your Haiku Mind (new writing exercise each day)

 

9:00 am

 

“Who Wrote That? How My Haiku Has Changed Over Three Decades” Panel Discussion: With Jerry Ball, Garry Gay, and Penny Harter, chaired by Margaret Chula.

 

 

10:00 am

Terry Ann Carter: Lighting the Global Lantern: A Teacher’s Guide to Haiku and Related Literary Forms

Lidia Rozmus: Between a Word and a Brush Stroke: A Traditional Approach to Haiga

Paul Miller: Stretching Western Haiku (Gendai Haiku in the West)

 

11:00 am

Haiku Sharing (unmoderated roundtable reading, sharing, and discussion of haiku)

Jessica Tremblay: Old Pond Haiku Comics

Hana Fujimoto: The Symbolic Function of Kigo (Season Words), plus green tea and sweets

Sponsored by the Haiku International Association

 

11:30 am

 

Meet at Lopez Room to walk to Space Needle (about 15 minutes plus check-in time)

 

 

12:00–3:00 pm

 

 

 

Space Needle: Banquet (includes unsilent auction, kukai winners, special announcements, and a few surprises) with David Ash as unsilent auction MC

3:00 pm

 

 

 

Concert at the Mural (south of Center House): Barbecue dinner option, sponsored by KEXP Radio. Musicians, until 9:00 pm:

Fool’s Gold

Rainbow Arabia

Capsula

Virgin Islands

Mad Rad

4:00 pm

 

“Haiku Blogging” Panel Discussion: With Fay Aoyagi, Melissa Allen, Gene Myers, and Don Wentworth, chaired by Ce Rosenow

Sponsored by the Haiku Society of America

 

 

5:00 pm

 

 

 

Dinner at local restaurants (we’ll try to form groups) or KEXP Barbecue at Center House Mural Stage

6:30 pm

 

La Famille Leger: Folk Musical Welcome

 

 

7:00 pm

 

Terry Ann Carter: From Internment Camp to Contemporary Landscapes: A History of Haiku in Canada

 

 

7:45 pm

 

Break

 

 

8:00 pm

 

Charles Trumbull: A History of American Haiku

 

 

9:00 pm

 

Break

 

 

9:15 pm

 

La Famille Léger: Folk Musical Performance / Contra Dance

 

 

10:30 pm

 

 

 

MarQueen Hotel meeting room: Late-night renku session, led by Billie Dee

10:30 pm

Finish clean-up and take-down of all displays, bookfair materials, etc. by midnight

 

 

 

Sunday

Sunday, 7 August 2011

 

 

Sunrise: 5:54 am        Sunset: 8:35 pm          Moonrise: 4:03 am

 

Time

Hotel

MarQueen Hotel Meeting Room

8:00 am

If you’re leaving today, check out of hotel (have hotel store luggage for pickup later if necessary)

 

8:15 am

Transportation from hotels

 

8:40 am

Arrive at Pier 55

 

9:00 am

Boat departs from Pier 55

Anonymous Haiku Workshop

9:45 am

Boat arrives at Blake Island (start haiku walk)

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

Lunch on your own

2:30 pm

Load boat at Blake Island

 

2:45 pm

Boat leaves Blake Island

 

3:30 pm

Boat returns to Pier 55

 

 

Downtown tourist activities on your own (including transportation back to hotels, but we’ll provide instructions for ways to return)

 

 

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