ECHOES: Painting & Poetry Exhibition at KICH – February 25 ~ March 2

ECHOES is an upcoming poetry and art exhibition organized by the Hailstone Haiku Circle, and featuring the conservation efforts of PTO (People Together for Mt. Ogura). Click on the flyer below for details!

H a i g a c o l l a b o r a t i o n
Hailstone Haiku Circle is an international group founded in 2000 by Stephen Gill and centred on Kyoto. Its main activity is to compose, share and publish English language haiku, but recently it did so based on paintings brought to the meetings. Each poet took home one of these paintings and wrote a haiku to accompany it. Many of these collaborations are displayed in this exhibition. Haiku seems like an entirely new art when written in English, and, fortunately, many of the poets are also fine artists!

M t. O g u r a c o r n e r
In summer 2003, Stephen Gill spent 16 hours walking about Mt. Ogura in Saga, Kyoto. His objective was to write poems celebrating the mountain, but inadvertently he discovered many environmental problems, including a huge amount of rubbish tipped there. The following year, he met Okiharu Maeda of the NPO ‘ACE’ (and more recently, PTO) and, ever since, together they have been clearing the rubbish and attracting to this beautiful mountain many volunteers, both Japanese and foreign. There will be a small section of the exhibition devoted to artworks and poetry made on or for Mt. Ogura.

Location: KYOTO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HOUSE, 2F
4 min. from Keage Station on Subway Tozai Line. Here is a MAP.
Dates: February 25 (Tue.) ~ March 2 (Sun.)　11：00~19：00
First day opens 12:00, reception 18:00~ 20:00 last day closes at 18:00
Admission Free!
Enquiries (K.I.C.H.): 075-752-1187
HAILSTONE HAIKU CIRCLE (Stephen Gill): 075 865 2773
Links:
Hailstone Haiku Circle: http://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/
PTO: http://www.ptogura.org/ep.html
KICH: http://www.kcif.or.jp/HP/access/en/index.html