Love Lunch 2020: Haiku Encounter By Museum of Walking
We run creative events on foot - a walking creative legacy is one of communal conviviality, seeing and sensing places differently, energising participants’ creativity and imagination, heightening their awareness of their surroundings, all stimulated through a little gentle, but healthy, exercise. Walking Creative experiences take place indoors as well as out, catered for all but can be tailored for specific audiences - we’ve run walking creative events for Team London Bridge in 2018 and 2019.
Get more creative with a Haiku Encounter - quickly gain confidence in observation and written documentation with fun and mind-stretching techniques. We choose haiku, the 3-line short form poem most associated with Japanese culture, as their brevity makes them easy to explain and an amusing challenge to write and recite.
Haiku can be read on two levels: literal and symbolic, so a simple description of a scene qualifies as much as a symbolic interpretation. The former is easily grasped by a novice haiku writer, so within a 45 or 60-minute walkshop, it is quite possible for them to progress to “not tell a story, but rather paint a picture with images”. Whether novice poet or accomplished author, we will introduce you to haiku, including their history, and by the end of the session you will be composing and reciting haiku. You will progress from telling a story to painting a picture with images.
We also offer you the chance to see your haiku published in a zine anthology - a Haiku Encounter souvenir of the event. Haiku Encounter was first tested by Andrew in 2011 for a festival in Vancouver, and was reprised in 2016 when he was a Scholar in Creativity and Innovation at City University / Cass Business School, since then Haiku Encounter has been commissioned widely as an effective way to increase personal and team creativity.
Your ticket is refundable on arrival. If you cancel your attendance in advance or simply don’t turn up on the day you will be unable to get a refund and the money will go to a local charity.
It's time to learn to Love your Lunch hour again. Taking a break from your working day is proven to enhance a healthy lifestyle so Team London Bridge is providing a menu of FREE lunchtime options around London Bridge to get you out and about weekday lunchtimes throughout January 2020
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