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Date/Time |
Event |
| January 1 | Yuki Teikei Haiku Society membership dues are payable. |
| Saturday, January 14 1:30 pm until 4:00 pm | Meeting; newcomers and guests welcome, at the Hotel, History Center, 1650 Senter Road, San Jose. A ginko on New Year season words and a kukai . Please, no peanuts or peanut content in snacks you might bring. Directions to History Center. |
| Saturday, February 11, 1:30 pm until 4:30 pm | Meeting; newcomers and guests welcome, at Cantor Art Center, Stanford, CA. View the works on display in Style and Process: Japonisme on Paper in the Robert Mondavi Family Gallery and other art on exhibition. Write haiku, meet in the cafe and share. Directions to the Cantor here. |
| Saturday, March 10, 12:00 pm until 4:00 pm. | Meeting; newcomers and guests welcome, at the Hotel, History Center, 1650 Senter Road, San Jose. Haiga (haiku with art) workshop. Materials for collage, painting, and sumi-e will be available; donations will be accepted for their use. Come with haiku, a bag lunch, and any art supplies that you would like play with while creating haiga. Please bring a peanut-free dish to share. Directions to History Center. |
| Saturday, April 9, 1:30 pm until 4:30 pm | Picnic lunch, ginko and poem sharing, Hakone Gardens, Saratoga. Bring your own food and libation and something to share; newcomers and guests welcome. Please, no peanuts or peanut content in the picnic food. |
| Saturday, May 12, 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Haiku in the Tea House, San Jose Japanese Friendship Garden Tea House, 1490 Senter Road, San Jose. Sponsored by YTHS, Poetry Center San Jose, and San Jose Parks, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services.10:00 to noon – Garden walking tour and haiku workshop.1:30 to 4:30 p.m.—Featured readers, poets Naia, Neal Whitman, Susan Antolin, and Bev Momoi, followed by an open-microphone haiku reading. Light refreshments will be available. |
| Saturday, June 14, time to be announced | Park tour with picnic lunch (bring your own and something to share); newcomers and guests welcome, at the San Jose Prusch Farm Park. Please, no peanuts or peanut content in the picnic food. |
| Saturday, July 9, 6:00 pm | Tanabata Celebration at the home of Anne and Don Homan above Livermore, newcomers and guests welcome. Please bring a dish for a pot-luck dinner. Please, no peanuts or peanut content in the dish. Call for directions – 925-443-9440 |
| Wednesday, September 5 through Sunday September 9 | Haiku Pacific Rim Conference at Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey Peninsula. Newcomers welcome. As details are available they will be provided here. |
| Saturday October 27, 4:00 pm | Moon Viewing Halloween Party, at the home of home of Patricia and Al Machmiller, San Jose; newcomers and guests welcome. Please bring a dish for a pot-luck dinner. Please, no peanuts or peanut content in the dish. |
| Monday, November 5, 4:00 pm | Board 2012 Planning Meeting; members welcome, at the home of Alison Wolpert. Please, no peanuts or peanut content in snacks you might bring. |
| Saturday, November 10, 1:30 pm until 5:00 pm | Meeting, Markham House, History Center, 1650 Senter Road, San Jose. Program, ginko (nature-walk and haiku writing), and sharing of poems. Please, no peanuts or peanut content in snacks you might bring. Directions to History Center. |
| Saturday, December 8, 6:00 pm | Holiday Party, newcomers and partners welcome, at the home of Alison Woolpert, Santa Cruz. Bring a dish for the holiday table. Please, no peanuts or peanut content in the dish. It is a tradition of this annual party that the poets exchange a holiday card haiga with the other poets. Thirty copies of the haiga card are likely to be enough for the exchange. |
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