Events
Welcome to our events page. We have now sorted our events by year. Please select the year to view all available events for that year.
2009
We gathered at one o’clock at Park House in Leatherhead for this 'expedition for beginners', organised by Diana Webb. There were fifteen BHS members, one ex-BHS member and sixteen other interested people, in groups designed to have an equal mix. Diana provided a very useful set of notes for everyone. This included quotations helpful in encouraging an openness to and awareness of special ‘moments’. There were also 24 haiku as examples for beginners and some extra notes on generally accepted features of what haiku should be.
Calling all BHS members! It is time for you to submit your entries for this year's Members' Anthology. The theme this year is earth.
An archive of reports and any accompanying illustrations from a selection of previous events.
2010
The British Haiku Society celebrated its 20th anniversary with an event at Daiwa House.
2011
In Ludlow, Shropshire. BHS Members and invited guest speakers only.
BHS Annual General Meeting and Winter Gathering took place on Saturday, Nov 26th. There were lots of positive ideas offered by BHS members for the committee to take up in the near future and talks and sessions by Susan Lee Kerr, David Cobb and Colin Blundell.
Meetings currently suspended due to ill health of co-ordinator. Will hopefully return to activity at Morden Tower, Newcastle, later in 2012.
2012
BHS are supporting an exhibition of paintings which illustrate haiku by the artist Carolina Khouri. She has also produced a book containing the haiku and the accompanying paintings.
Sales from the book are going to the Japanese tsunami disaster appeal.
2013
On the evening of Thursday 9th May a gathering took place of twenty-two members of The British Haiku Society, L’Association Francaphone de Haiku, L’Association des Auteurs de Haibun and Kukai Paris at the South Cliff Hotel in Folkestone. Click here for details
2014
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2015
Winter Gathering/AGM – 14 November 2015 At around 10:15am on a drizzly Saturday morning, the great and the good of the British haiku world converged on Conway Hall, Holborn in London, from near and far to attend the Society’s Winter Gathering/AGM and also to celebrate […]
2016
Conway Hall, London – 17 September 2016 As part of “The British Haiku Society” outreach programme, and for the second year running, we had a table at the “Poetry Book Fair” in Conway Hall, London. Again all of us wore our BHS T-shirts and […]
David Bingham started the day introducing a session about organising work into sequences. Participants were given some examples of haiku and asked to think about the interesting question of what might follow, some example sequences were also provided. Then after an introduction to Haiku sets […]
BHS handed out 108 haiku to complete strangers on London’s Southbank on Saturday 16 April 2016 to celebrate International Haiku Poetry Day the next day. Thanks to Iliyana Stoyanova we learned of the declaration of the day – 17 April for 17 syllables. And thanks to […]
2017
On Saturday 2 December 2017 nearly 30 BHS members met for the BHS Winter Gathering and AGM at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. In the morning we had the AGM and a wonderful workshop led by Diana Webb – Having Fun with […]
On the 30th of September 2017 for the third year running, the BHS had a table at the Poetry Book Fair at Conway Hall, London. The Fair was not as busy as last year, however thanks to the BBC documentary quite a few people stopped to […]
On 2nd July 2017, thirteen members of the London Haiku Group ran by Coordinator, Mark Gilfillan assembled for a meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. Each person brought along six poems for critiquing. A few months earlier it was agreed that the Group would produce an […]
2018
BHS Winter Gathering and AGM 2018 Conway Hall, London At the BHS Annual General Meeting on 17th November 2018 in London results of the biennial election were announced. The Management Committee for 2019-21 is: President, Colin Blundell; General Secretary, Susan Lee Kerr; Treasurer, Paul […]
Art and Eastern Teachings Interactive workshop (27 September 2018, 3.30-6pm at Brookfield Science Building, Cork University) Are Far Eastern teachings too far from us? How can we use their practices in our everyday life? How can they inspire our creativity? Join us to learn some of the […]
Free Verse – The Poetry Book & Magazine Fair: Saturday 22 September 2018, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm As part of the BHS on-going outreach programme, and for the 4th year running we had a table at the new venue, Senate House, London, of ‘Free Verse, […]
2019
BHS AGM/Winter Gathering Conway Hall, London – 23 November 2019 The day started off with refreshments, where members reacquainted themselves with old friends and met new ones. In total, 39 members were in attendance on the day. Long-standing BHS member Diana Webb led a […]
International Haiku Conference – St Albans, UK (31 May – 2 June 2019) The BHS was the sponsor and organizer of an International Haiku Conference which took place at the Maltings Arts Theatre in St Albans, UK on the weekend of Friday, 31 May to Sunday […]
Launch of the Bulgarian/English collaborative haiku anthology ‘Beyond Words/Отвъд думите’ in Sofia, Bulgaria – 18 December 2018 David Bingham and I spent two wonderful days in Sofia with our good friend and guide Iliyana Stoyanova. After a two hour and forty-five-minute flight from Gatwick, […]
2020
Virtual Ginko and Haiku Sharing – 27 February 2021 Participants were asked ahead of the February 27 Zoom meeting to go outdoors and remain rooted in one spot and to draft haiku using all their physical senses and take note of what they could see […]
On Saturday, 12 December 2020 the British Haiku Society hosted a special haiku sharing session dedicated to the memory of David Cobb (1926-2020). Over 30 participants at the meeting presented two types of haiku: · a haiku written by David Cobb · a haiku from the […]
BHS Haiku workshop – 28 November 2020 Alan Summers and Karen Hoy offered to host a live Zoom haiku workshop, on Saturday November 28th, from 10.30 am for two hours, for fellow BHS members. Participants were invited to bring along a haiku to read, and […]
2021
British Haiku Society AGM and Winter Gathering by Zoom, Saturday, 20th November 2021 BHS AGM The BHS AGM was a short meeting (approx. 20 minutes). Before the BHS AGM all BHS Members were sent the relevant documents and were given the opportunity to […]
Book launch and tanka performance On 28 August 2021, the British Haiku Society organised a book launch, on Zoom, of Kala Ramesh’s book ‘the forest i know’- a gathering of tanka verses, published by HarperCollins India. There were several friends, well-wishers, and admirers of Kala’s […]
On Sunday, 18 July 2021 David Bingham and Iliyana Stoyanova led a free haiku workshop for the biggest Japanese festival in UK, Hyper Japan. In this workshop 25 participants from Argentina, Canada, Greece, India, UK, and USA explored: the characteristics of good contemporary haiku and […]
2022
On 7 December 2022 BHS members Claire Chatelet, Isabel Del Rio and Iliyana Stoyanova attended the fifth edition of the Naviar Haiku Fest, an evening of music and poetry reading at Café Oto in London. The event featured performances by members and friends of Naviar, working […]
The BHS AGM and Winter Gathering took place on Saturday the 26th November 2022 via Zoom. Participants who wanted to perform at the event were asked to provide David Bingham with up to 3 haiku or 3 tanka or a short haibun (maximum length 60 […]
The BHS Spring Gathering took place on 14th May 2022 by Zoom. It was a well-attended event with 30 plus members from both the UK and abroad. David Bingham led the first session which was a sharing of ‘mini-haibun’ that had been sent in by BHS […]
2023
Kobayashi Issa: Dancing Haiku Heartfelt thanks to Iliyana Stoyanova for the invitation, trust and freedom to create an opportunity for haiku sharing for the 2023 Winter Gathering. What emerged was the artistic joy of sharing Kobayashi Issa’s: Dancing Haiku as inspiration for participants to write their […]
The BHS Spring Gathering 2023 took place on Zoom on Saturday, 3 June at 4pm-7pm UK time. Over 40 BHS members from different countries joined in. The event had two parts with a short tea/coffee break between them. Part 1: Articulation of the Single Line […]
Images, Haiku and the Spirit workshop – 5 February 2023 The Images, Haiku and the Spirit Zoom workshop presented a slideshow of nature photographs as sources of inspiration and/or jumping off points for haiku writing and sharing. The session opened with 28 people and a […]
2024
Haiku for the Wiltshire Heights Care Home In the run up to International Haiku Day, representatives of the Wiltshire Heights Care Home in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, contacted the BHS to see if a presentation on haiku could be given to the care home residents. The […]
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