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New Year's Eve Haibun for a world-wide recognition of
peoples varying activities around the world this New Year's Eve.
paul@conneally.freeserve.co.uk
However, prizes are no more than tokens. Participation in these Events and enjoyment of them are the most important part. Good luck and kengin (and "ken-photographing" & "ken-haibun-writing), Re: The New Year's Eve & New Year's Day World-wide Double Kukai yuku toshi wo moto no ie nashi to narinikeri (Issa) the year ending; nagayami no kotoshi mo mairu zoni kana (Shiki) my long illness -- (version ST) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * On 31 December 2000 and 1 January 2001 YOUR local time, you are cordially invited to take part in our special double kukai world-wide. On each day, please enjoy composing haiku poems and posting them to the haikuforum with your name on. Yes, as many as you like. Members can invite their friends to participate as well as our honoured guests. Thus people around the world can enjoy what other haijin are creating on each of these two auspicious days. Simultaneously, other events are organised as part of the celebration, including Mitsugu Abe's Photo-haiku contest and Paul Conneally's haibun event. Please refer to each of their own announcements for details. These are all to celebrate the successful activities of the World Haiku Club during the last few years and also to toast to the promising outlook into the future. Kengin to all, Susumu ANNOUNCEMENT (Repeat) The haikuforum has four regular kukai per year. We missed the autumn (spring in the Southern Hemisphere) kukai owing to the computer melt-down. Instead, we re-opened the submission of haiku poems to the proposed World Haiku Anthology, which is still open. Now, we would like to launch a world-wide double kukai to take place on the New Year's Eve and on the New Year's Day. The former will be a celebration of the success of the World Haiku Festival 2000 so far, and the latter will be a celebration of the start of the World Haiku Club, founded in 1998, as a permanent entity, having become a world-wide network of haiku-loving individuals and organisations. The WHF2000, now in its second half, will officially be completed with its finale, "Epilogue to WHF2000", which will take place in the shape of a haiku conference in London in May 2001. This event will also mark the beginning of the "JAPAN 2001", which is a Japanese and British goverments' official year-long festival of Japanese arts and culture, taking place across the United Kingdom. The World Haiku Festival will be a permanent feature to celebrate and develop world haiku, encouraging and blessing individuality, diversity and local differences as well as stimulating originality, innovation and new creative energy in world haiku. All sorts of interesting and worthy activities are encouraged to be initiated under the World Haiku Festival umbrella in different parts of the world.
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