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).
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Sunrise: 5:49 am Sunset:
8:41 pm Moonrise:
11:01 am Moonset: 10:13 pm
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Time |
Orcas |
Lopez |
Shaw |
Elsewhere |
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9:00 am |
Setup and load in of
bookfair, registration tables, haiga, and all other exhibits (until 4:30 pm) |
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1:00 pm |
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Registration opens at
Fidalgo Room |
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1:00 pm |
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Peggy Booth of Ikebana International arranges three ikebana
installations for HNA |
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1:30–4:30 pm |
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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 |
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4:30–6:00 pm |
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Early dinner at local restaurants
(we’ll try to form groups) |
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6:00 pm |
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Dessert reception Sponsored by Modern Haiku |
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7:00 pm |
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Open reading of haiku and
senryu Moderated by Michael Dylan Welch and
Tanya McDonald |
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8:30 pm |
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Anonymous haiku workshop |
Anonymous gendai haiku
workshop |
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9:30 pm |
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MarQueen Hotel meeting room: Rengay writing session, led by Michael Dylan Welch |
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset:
8:40 pm Moonrise:
12:20 pm Moonset: 10:42 pm
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Time |
Orcas |
Lopez |
Shaw |
Elsewhere |
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8:00 am |
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Don Baird:
Tai Chi Ch’uan—Waking Your Haiku Mind (new writing exercise each day) |
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9:00 am |
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Michael Dylan Welch: Opening remarks, followed by participant reading of
the 2011 HNA conference anthology, facilitated by editors Michael Dylan Welch
and Ruth Yarrow |
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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 |
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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 |
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12:00–1:30 pm |
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Lunch at local restaurants
(we’ll try to form groups) |
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1:30–2:30 pm |
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“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 |
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2:45 pm |
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Meet at Lopez Room at 2:45
pm for walk to the monorail station |
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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) |
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5:00 pm |
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Dinner downtown (Pike Place
or elsewhere), or return by monorail early |
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5:30 pm |
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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 |
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7:00 pm |
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Last time to catch the
monorail back to Seattle Center (plan your time carefully) |
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7:30 pm |
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Haibun reading, featuring Cor van den Heuvel reading from A
Boy’s Seasons, and other readers, plus video renku by Eve Luckring |
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8:20 pm |
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Break |
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8:30 pm |
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“Developing Haiku Book Manuscripts” Panel Discussion:
With Jim Kacian, Charles Trumbull, and Don Wentworth, chaired
by Michael Dylan Welch |
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10:00 pm |
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MarQueen Hotel meeting room: Late-night renku session, led by Billie Dee |
Friday, 5 August 2011
Sunrise: 5:52 am Sunset:
8:38 pm Moonrise:
1:37 pm Moonset:
11:15 pm
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Time |
Orcas |
Lopez |
Shaw |
Elsewhere |
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8:00 am |
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Don Baird:
Tai Chi Ch’uan—Waking Your Haiku Mind (new writing exercise each day) |
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9:00 am |
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“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. |
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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 |
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11:00 am |
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Memorial Reading: Honoring Haiku Poets Who Have Passed Away in the Last Two Years Presented by Marjorie Buettner |
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11:45 am |
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2011 HNA Group Photo Taken by Garry Gay (free
printed copies to be distributed at the banquet) |
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12:00–1:30 pm |
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Lunch at local restaurants
(we’ll try to form groups) |
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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 |
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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 |
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4:00 pm |
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The Poetry Continuum: Anything But Haiku Reading: Open mic for longer poetry (no haiku, senryu,
haibun, or linked verse) |
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5:00 pm |
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Dinner at local restaurants
(we’ll try to form groups) |
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6:00 pm |
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Concert
at the Mural (south of Center
House): Musicians, until 8:00 pm: |
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7:00 pm |
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Open Reading for Poets with New Books and
Anthologies Moderated by Michael Dylan Welch |
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8:00 pm |
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Break “Urban Kukai” submission
deadline |
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8:10 pm |
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Higginson Memorial Lecture: Richard
Gilbert: Social Consciousness and the Poet’s Stance in 21st Century
Haiku: From Kaneko Tohta to the Present |
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9:00 pm |
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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 |
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10:30 pm |
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MarQueen Hotel meeting room: Late-night renku session, led by Billie Dee |
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)
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Time |
Orcas |
Lopez |
Shaw |
Elsewhere |
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8:00 am |
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Don Baird:
Tai Chi Ch’uan—Waking Your Haiku Mind (new writing exercise each day) |
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9:00 am |
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“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. |
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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) |
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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 |
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11:30 am |
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Meet at Lopez Room to walk
to Space Needle (about 15 minutes plus check-in time) |
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12:00–3:00 pm |
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Space Needle:
Banquet (includes unsilent auction, kukai winners, special announcements, and
a few surprises) with David Ash as
unsilent auction MC |
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3:00 pm |
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Concert
at the Mural (south of Center
House): Barbecue dinner option, sponsored by KEXP Radio. Musicians, until
9:00 pm: |
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4:00 pm |
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“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 |
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5:00 pm |
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Dinner at local restaurants
(we’ll try to form groups) or KEXP Barbecue at Center House Mural Stage |
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6:30 pm |
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La Famille Leger: Folk Musical Welcome |
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7:00 pm |
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Terry Ann Carter: From Internment Camp to Contemporary Landscapes: A History of Haiku in
Canada |
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7:45 pm |
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Break |
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8:00 pm |
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Charles Trumbull: A History of American Haiku |
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9:00 pm |
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Break |
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9:15 pm |
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La Famille
Léger: Folk Musical Performance
/ Contra Dance |
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10:30 pm |
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MarQueen Hotel meeting room: Late-night renku session, led by Billie Dee |
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10:30 pm |
Finish clean-up and take-down of all displays,
bookfair materials, etc. by midnight |
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Sunday, 7 August 2011
Sunrise: 5:54 am Sunset:
8:35 pm Moonrise:
4:03 am
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Time |
Hotel |
MarQueen
Hotel Meeting Room |
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8:00 am |
If you’re leaving today,
check out of hotel (have hotel store luggage for pickup later if necessary) |
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8:15 am |
Transportation from hotels |
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8:40 am |
Arrive at Pier 55 |
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9:00 am |
Boat departs from Pier 55 |
Anonymous Haiku Workshop |
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9:45 am |
Boat arrives at Blake
Island (start haiku walk) |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
Lunch on your own |
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2:30 pm |
Load boat at Blake Island |
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2:45 pm |
Boat leaves Blake Island |
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3:30 pm |
Boat returns to Pier 55 |
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Downtown tourist activities
on your own (including transportation back to hotels, but we’ll provide
instructions for ways to return) |
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