[NEohioPAL] Haiku News - PD and FT stories

[marcus at designerglass.com]

Haiku News - PD and FT stories

Karen Sandstrom of the PD and Michael Gill of Scene/FreeTimes have their stories 
online. You can view them at:

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/10/haiku_death_match_part_of_joy.html

http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/77/choose-your-weapon

At present the performers signed up so far are:

"Cerveny, Kathleen"
"Gage, Joshua"
"Howe, Meagen"
"Kanieski, George"
"Landis, Geoff"
"Matthews, Renee"
"Rader, Bennett"
"Turzillo, Mary"
"Weiss, Loren"

If you're interested in participating, this would be a very good time to say so, but please 
get your email to me (marcus at designerglass.com) or Peggy Spaeth 
(pspaeth at heightsarts.org) as soon as possible so we can put you on the list.

Here's how this Haiku Death Match works: two haiku readers on stage each read 
between a haiku, alternately, to the audience. Then the audience votes to award points 
to each of the two poets. Then each poet reads one more haiku. The back-and-forth of 
the two poets responding to each others' haiku, and the feedback from the audience 
about what it likes, generates a good bit of interest from all concerned. Of course we 
all know it's just a game, that the points don't matter, and it's all just in fun.

Each haiku reader who gets on the participant list will read at least 11-15 haiku, 
because that's how many will be required in the first round. The winner will have to 
participate in 3-5 rounds, depending on how many participants there are, so the winner 
will read 33 - 55 haiku out loud. I suggest that you bring 75-100 haiku with you, if you're 
a participant (if you're going to participate as audience, bring your best heckles, hoots, 
and hollers), so you have a wide range of your work to choose from as you respond to 
the other poet and the audience.

At the end of each round, the poet with more points goes on to the next round. You 
may re-use your haiku, you may use senryu, you may use just short 17-syllable 
poems, you may interpret the rules to include nearly any very short poem. But be 
warned -- the audience usually punishes participants whose offering doesn't sound too 
much like what the audience expects a haiku to sound like by voting him or her fewer 
points.

You'll probably want to organize your haiku for yourself by subject or key words or both 
so you can find them easily and quickly in the context of having to respond to someone 
else's haiku on stage.

There is NO FEE to participate in the Haiku Death Match, or to enjoy the HDM show in 
the audience -- which means not only do you not get paid, you don't have to pay to get 
in.

To participate, please contact: Peggy Spaeth at

phone:     216/ 371-3457
email:      pspaeth at heightsarts.org
website:  http://www.heightsarts.org/heightswrites/

or

Marcus Bales
phone:  216/780-1522
email:   marcus at designerglass.com

The event will be held at 3 pm, so get there about 2:30 if you're a participant.

The event will be held at:

Heights Arts Studio
2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights (west side of library bridge)

All the Joy Of Text Festival events are free and open to the public, EXCEPT AS 
NOTED BELOW:

Joy of Text Festival Schedule:

The Joy of Text Festival
presented by Heights Arts and ABC (Art Books Cleveland)

October 24-25, 2008
Heights Arts Studio
2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights (west side of library bridge)
216.371.3457
www.heightsarts.org
 
All free except as noted

Celebrate the page in a digital age.  The Joy of Text Festival is an arty celebration of 
text at Heights Arts Studio at the Heights Library.  Come see how artists express text, 
hear local poets, and be inspired to create your own unique books. 

Friday, October 24, 6-9 pm Opening Reception
on exhibit at Heights Arts Studio:
Abecedarium- an exhibition of alphabets created by ABC artists:
Bree
Susan Cobbledick
Jen Craun
Bonné de Blas
Gene Epstein
Amy Fishbach
Julie Friedman
Clarissa Jakobsons
Laura Martin
Danielle Merriman
Rachel Morris
Melissa O'Grady
Wendy Partridge
Louise Prochaska
Jan C. Snow
Sheila Spremulli
Ellen Strong
Susan Vincent
Carole Wallencheck

Textable-a selection of work from fall classes at Heights Arts Studio

ABC Artist Book Sale

7:30 pm Take Nine Poets
Gail Bellamy
Kathleen Cerveny
Katie Daley
Rita Grabowski
Meredith Holmes
Bonnie Jacobson
Darlene Montonaro
Linda Goodman Robiner
Cindy Washabaugh

Saturday, October 25, 10-5 pm
10 am - 5 pm   ABC Artist Book Sale
2 pm                           Footnotes on the History of Text-a live multi-medi performance 
presents The Joy of Text from papyrus to pixels
3 pm                           Haiku Death Match-You decide who wins as haiku masters face 
off in an intense competition!

Sunday, October 26, 1:30-4:30 pm
"Spider-Web" Binding Workshop with Danielle Merriman
Learn how to make a unique hardback book with multiple signatures (groups of pages) 
and no sewing!  Experience in book arts is helpful but not necessary.  Participants will 
leave with a completed art project!
Registration required:  $30/$27 members
216.371.3457
 

 
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