Celebrate nature and improve your observational skills in this interactive workshop with published haiku and haibun poet - Lisa Germany.
Starting indoors, we’ll learn about the key elements of traditional Japanese haiku (it’s likely very different to what you learned at school) and the art of capturing extraordinary ordinary moments in just a few lines. Lisa will also read some of her own haiku and describe how each of them originated from paying attention and observing her surroundings.
Then, armed with this background, we’ll head outside for an hour-long haiku walk (known as a ginko) and make observations and field notes as raw ingredients for creating our own haiku. Once back, Lisa will guide us through writing and editing our own original haiku.
If you’ve written haiku before or are interested in getting started, this in-person workshop is the perfect opportunity to explore your creativity, connect with nature, and learn more about this popular form of poetry.