Poetic inspirations @ Emerald

195 Bank St., South Melbourne
(opposite South Melbourne Town Hall)

The room can seat up to 30 persons. There is a kitchen available to use, with the usual facilities, including crockery and a hot water urn. The room also has audio visual equipment and screen if it will be required. The following Reading dates through out 2015 are as follows:
November 14, 11.45am-1.45pm December 12, 11.45am-1.45pm

Poetic inspirations @ Emerald

Calling all poets and lovers of poetry Especially all those who write in another language than English and/or have their work in a bilingual or a translated form
Every second Saturday of the month
With two guest poets every time

For more information:

– Dimitri Troaditis troaditisdimitris@gmail.com and/or 0432 094 342
– Emerald Library and Heritage Centre
Art & Heritage Programs | Arts & Culture 9209 6416

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19 September 6pm-8pm
State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette
(Entry 3, via La Trobe St)
FREE

Common Ground 2015 is a unique, multilingual project that utilises poetry, spoken word, sound and film to build connections and understanding between young people of diverse faiths and cultures in Melbourne. Over an eight-week series of free workshops at the State Library of Victoria, facilitators and artists Abdul Hammoud, Ebony Moncrief and Sukhjit Khalsa have collaborated with budding wordsmiths to create new poetry and spoken word pieces exploring identity and role of faith in our everyday lives.

On Saturday 19 September hear the poets transform their papered confessions into spoken word by bringing their own voices and stories up to the microphone. Alongside music from kora maestro Amadou Suso, Persian acapella singer Saharnaz Kia and Hazara Damboora player and vocalist Murtaza Jafari.

A selection of the pieces created during this project will also be set to soundscapes created by Melbourne-based producer CAZEAUX O.S.L.O accompanied by a video produced by Rogue Pixel and released later in the year. Common Ground was established in 2013 to create a space for young people from two faiths that are often religiously and racially vilified (Sikhism and Islam), to come together and use spoken word and poetry as a medium for dialogue, friendship and interaction.

This year the Common Ground Collective wants to bring the project back to the community and encourage young people from diverse faith backgrounds to join the project. Common Ground’s capacity to represent diverse cultures, faiths and identities through creativity offers a wealth of possibilities. It an opportunity to create interfaith dialogue around shared experiences to promote cultural cohesion and understanding.

This project is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, the Victorian Multicultural Commission and Uniting Through Faiths.

http://multiculturalarts.com.au/event/common-ground-2015/

It’s the first day of spring in Melbourne. Blossoms are blooming, peas and broad beans are shooting up and the snails are leaving ample evidence that they’ve come out of hibernation. In North America, the bushfire/wildfire season is waning and the milder days of autumn approaching. The world still turns. Welcome to the 16th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure. http://www.ahundredgourds.com AHG 4.4 Feature The Second International Haiku Conference in Krakow, Poland (May 15-17, 2015) We’re privileged to visit Poland via Brian Robertson’s report on the Second International Haiku Conference in Krakow, which was held in May this year. Both Brian’s text and the accompanying photos convey, to those of us who couldn’t be there, a sense of the friendliness, enthusiasm and expertise that was shared. Congratulations to all who were involved in this clearly very successful event! Expositions Terry Ann Carter’s essay, Chiyo-ni and Aisatsu: The Poetry of Greeting, demonstrates, with her selections of Chiyo-ni’s haiku and contemporary EL haiku, a time-honoured social function of Japanese haiku. Rob Scott reviews Robert Kania’s 39 haiku, Susan Constable reviews Joy McCall’s rising mist, fieldstones and Lorin Ford reviews Cherie Hunter Day’s apology moon.

A Hundred Gourds is still looking for a suitable editor for our Expositions section. Please direct any enquiries regarding the Expositions section and submit your book reviews, essays or commentaries on individual poems for AHG to me, Lorin, until further notice.

Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 5.1 (the December 2015 issue) is September 15th. AHG has an open submissions policy: any submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the March 2016 issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors’ guidelines.

Please take the time to read the AHG submissions page, including the editors’ individual comments, and ensure that your submission complies with all requirements.

Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds —