Agenda
Friday May 19th
3pm-5pm registration
5pm-6pm break for dinner (set up book room)
6pm-6:15 formal Greeting and housekeeping
6:15-6:30 announcements by DeVar
6:30-9:30 wine and cheese, readings, and workshopping
9:30-10:00 break before renku party
10pm- ? renku with Marshall and Karen
Saturday May 20th
7am-8:30 early renku
8:30-10:30 catered breakfast
9:00-9:45 Keynote address: Promoting haiku around the world featuring highlights from the Vancouver Cherry Blosson
Festival by Vicki McCullough, Carole Macrury and Michael Dylan Welch.
9:45-10:45 Haiku Canada Annual General Meeting
11:00-12:30 ginko to Nitobe Gardens
12:30-2:00 free time for lunch
2:00-2:45 news clip and kukai in courtyard and mingle
2:45-3:15 Howard Lee Kilby on Zen in Paris
3:15 - 3:45 Mariko Kitakubo dance performance
3:45-4:00 Skit by Heather Isaacson and Joyce
Taylor
4:30-5pm book room
5:00-6:30 break for dinner
6:30-7:10 Marshall on translations
7:10pm- 7:30pm Carmen Sterba "Rearview Mirror" reading both haiku and haibun
7:30-8pm Dr. Kozue Uzawa on Syllables in English Tanka
8:00-8:30 Allan Brown on the story in haiku
8:30-10:00 readings and workshopping
10pm - ? renku with Karen and Marshall
Sunday May 21st
7am-8:30 early morning renku
8:30 am - 10:00 am bookroom, auction tables, mingle
10:00-10:15 Betty Drevniok results, 50/50 draw, silent auction,
raffle, blind auction results
10:15-11:15 "Mariko Kitakubo and Amelia
Fielden, bilingual tanka performance".
11:15-12:15 Michael Dylan Welch on the moment in haiku
12:15-12:30 Closing and goodbyes by DeVar to those
who are leaving
12:30-2pm break for lunch
2:15-2:30 meet in parking lot to drive or bus to VanDusen
Gardens
3pm-5pm ginko of VanDusen
5pm-7pm dinner at VanDusen
7pm- ? drive around Vancouver or back for Wreck
Beach
