I’m running a series of haiku workshops that will develop a collaborative project with Naviar Records and result with an exhibition in Griffith during May
The workshops begin on 27 February and we’re soliciting Japanese-style short poems (haiku, senryu, renga and tanka) to be considered for the exhibition.
See https://ree.org.au/stay-cool/ for details and links to the Facebook events.
A selection of the contributed poems will be shared with the Naviar community, who respond with music and soundscapes to haiku that are shared each week.
It’s really exciting to hear how the mood of a poem informs a piece of music and when I ran a similar project with Naviar in 2017 we ended up with over five hours of audio that became a rich soundtrack to the prose and photography.
If you feel like getting involved, join a Zoom workshop in coming weeks and we'll discuss the styles of poetry.
This project began with an exhibition that opened last weekend and I made this short video.
