RPAA September Event
Find your inner Zen ~ Haiku Workshop
Flying Dolphin Studio
6660 North Damen Avenue
Friday, September 28 // 6:30-8:30 PM
Front door is located on the side of the building – buzz unit 3E, top floor!
Join Rogers Park Arts Alliance on Friday evening, September 28 at Flying Dolphin Studio for a fun and interactive writing workshop. Relax and enjoy the art of Haiku poetry while creating several of your own personal Haiku to experience the legacy. Hot tea will be served – and Flying Dolphin Studio is BYOB friendly!
You might ask what does a Haiku look like – A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.
The best-known Japanese haiku is Basho's "old pond":
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(transliterated into 17 hiragana)
furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto
(transliterated into romaji)
This separates into on as:
fu-ru-i-ke ya (5)
ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mu (7)
mi-zu-no-o-to (5)
Translated:
old pond
frog leaps in
water's sound
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/haiku for more info on this creative tradition!