We met at Veale Gardens on South Terrace at the Wisteria Arbour at 11 am. The weather had been showery for a few days, but we were fortunate on the day of the ginko to have fine weather, with only a slight sprinkle of rain just as we were finishing lunch.
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Present: Lyn Arden, Marilyn Linn, Alex Ask, Lee Bentley, Athena Zaknic, Belinda Broughton, Pam Brow, Margaret Rawlinson Maeve Archibald, Dawn Colsey.
Apologies: Margaret Fensom.
General Business: Haiku Bindii blog will be posting weekly challenges and a Showcase
selected by members each month. The first Showcase was selected by members.
The Adelaide based Bindii Group held a kukai at their 6 August 2011 meeting and members enjoyed sharing the haiku brought in by other members.
Lynette Arden has just started a blog for the Bindii Haiku Group, called Haiku Bindii. The blog is only new but will provide a convenient way to keep up to date with the haiku happenings of the Adelaide based group. The blog can be found at:
Workshopping of members’ work: Each member shared Renku and haiku and also requested suggestions and improvements from other members.
Renku Workshop: Lyn Arden gave a workshop on writing Renku. History and principles were outlined and then we divided into two groups to write shisan Renku. The shisan Renku started in this session will be continued by email and presented for feedback at the July meeting.
On 7th May, 2011, Bindii met at the Box Factory on Regent Street South, Adelaide, from 10.30am to 1pm. Seven people attended, some were new members. The group was facilitated by Alexander Ask in the absence of Lyn Arden, who was away.
During the first half of the meeting, we reviewed some important principles of Haiku and then wrote several Haiku pieces. We wrote Autumn moon verses in preparation for next month’s Renku session. We then provided feedback to each other’s Haiku. The second part of the meeting involved a stroll outside in the gardens where we wrote more Haiku.
Overall, we had an enjoyable meeting and everybody is looking forward to the next meeting on 4th June, 2011.
Alexander Ask
Maeve Archibald: The workshop was presented in 3 x two hour sequential sessions. I planned the workshop this way as I considered the work too intensive to be conducted effectively in a one day session. Likewise the aspects I wanted to cover required more than 1 x two hour session, which is our usual time unit.
The aim of the workshop was to work towards a Haibun of approx 600 words and including a minimum of 3 haiku. I chose this frame as giving more than adequate opportunity for exploring both prose and poetry as poetic elements of expression in the Haibun genre.
Australian Haiku Society 