Haiku Canada 35th Anniversary, Glendon College, Toronto, ON

Friday May 18, 2012

4:00-7:00pm	Registration in foyer on ground floor of Hilliard Residence Dinner menu available in open cafeteria, sandwiches and coffee in Manor Hall Ball Room which will be our main meeting room Setting up of book table and 'Silent Auction Items' Table in adjacent room that leads off in stone steps to a patio Exhibtion of Grant Savage's photos here Anonymous haiku workshop submissions drop-off during this eveningand during the renku
7:00-8:30pm	Assemblage and Reading/sounding out of The 6th Holographic Anthology commemorating our 35th Anniversary - led by Marco Fraticelli and Marshall Hryciuk
9:00pm	Renku Party 9 pm - til 36 links are completed Marshall Hryciuk leads a relatively trad-style renku

Saturday May 19 May, 2012

8:00-9:00am	Breakfast -the Glendon College cafeteria will be open coupons for breakfast can be purchased for $6.50 a piece from Hilliard Residence upon sign-in Friday evening
9:00-10:00am	Anonymous Workshop Part 1, led by Terry Ann Carter and Nick Avis
10:00-10:15am	Welcoming Comments by President DeVar Dahl
10:15-11:00am	Keynote Lecture by Terry Ann Carter 'The Development of Haiku in Canada into Haiku Canada at 35'
11:00-11:30am	Makoto Nakanishi on Haiku by Japanese High School Students in Haiku Koshien
11:30-12:00am	Lin Geary on Canadian Children's Haiku and Haiku Canada
12:00 -1:15pm	Lunch in the cafeteria or by choice of venue
1:15-2:00pm	Mike Montreuil - The Betty Drevniok Award Anthology
2:00- 2:15pm	Mike Montreuil and Luminita Suse launch their new tanka book
2:15-2:30pm	Ann Goldring reads from her new chapbook
2:30-3:00pm	Feature Reading - Nick Avis
3:00-3:15pm	Deanna Tiefenthal - Haiku written in the US Internment Camps of Japanese Nationals during WWII
3:15-3:30pm	Cofee Break - coffee, teas and muffins will be available throughoutthe afteroon and replenished at this time
4:15-5:15pm	Francophone Poets Feature Reading -Canadian Writers of haiku and tanka in French read from their work introduced by Mike Montreuil
5:15-6:15pm	Ginko Walk with a view to submissions of haiku for the Kukai Prize (1 submission per poet)
6:15-7:45pmn	Catered Sushi – Sashimi Dinner
8:00pm	The 35th HC Membership Anthology Presentation and Reading led by Claudia Couture Radmore all included will read their anthologized haiku and then, if they are not featured on this program elsewhere, be encouraged to read 5 to 7 more of their own new haiku
11:00pm	Late Night Renku led by Marshall Hryciuk in the unofficial room where no one can hear us

Sunday May 20, 2012

8:00am-8:45	Breakfast in the cafeteria /coffee and sweets available in the Manor Room
9:00-10:00am	Haiku Canada Business Meeting
10-10:15am	Thank-you to outgoing President DeVar Dahl led by our new President Terry Ann Carter
10:14-11:30am	Anonymous Haiku Workshop, Part 2 -led by Terry and Nick
11:30-12:15am	Feature Reading by Penny Harter
12:15-1:30pm	Lunch – cafeteria open
1:30-2:00pm	LeRoy Gorman launching fast enough to leave this world - his new book of tanka
2:00-2:15pm	Terry Ann Carter and Mike Montreuil launching Hallelujah
2:15-3:00pm	King's Road Press Authors' book launch - New haiku chapbooks by Terry Ann Carter, Philomene Kocher and Charles Trumbull - introduced by Marco Fraticelli
3:00-3:30pm	Carolyn Danby presents, "A Basho Sampler"
3:30pm	Time to wrap up the book tables and award the silent auction winners their treasures and collect and distribute all due monies
4:30pm	Leaving en masse for downtown Toronto and Bay St. Docks for a Ferry to Toronto Island for dinner and a sunset, looking back over theToronto shoreline and skyscape and a chance for someone else to lead or continue a renku already in progress
8:30pm	Returning to Manor House where we will have access to the main Hall and the adjoining room to the east for whatever we want to do (Security will know we're there, but we will have keys and are no classes or residences nearby that we could disturb.)

Monday May 21st – Queen Victoria Day

8:00-9:00am	Breakfast in the cafeteria - no coffee service (can bring your own over(not far))
9:00-9:45am	Melanie Noll Presentation of the Betty Drevniok Award for 2012
9:45-10:00am	Mike Montreuil - Presentation of the Inaugural Prix Jocelyne Villeneuve
10:00-10:45am	Kukai Presentation from our Ginko walk
10:45-11:00am	Melanie and Marshall Reading of the completed renku
11:00am	Final remarks and Wrap-up / Announcement of 2013's HC Weekend Venue