Starting 2013 Off with a Little Poetry and Art

Happy 2013 All!
If you’d like to celebrate the new year with a little poetry and a little art, then I’d like to invite you out to Bellevue Art Museum on its free first friday, January 4.
You can listen to some of my recorded poems from She Returns to the Floating World along with information about the new Japanese art exhibits – follow the instructions here:
http://www.bellevuearts.org/exhibitions/featured.html

Check out this information about the whole Japanese celebration event on the 4th here:
http://www.bellevuearts.org/calendar/#search-by=featured-event&query=1/4/2013&title=Celebrating%20Japanese%20Traditions%20at%20BAM

The whole day’s schedule looks pretty cool. Besides my reading with art show by Michaela Eaves, there’s also manga lessons, a talk with one of the featured artists, and a bunch of cool stuff. Plus my book will be available at the gift shop!

January 4, 2013

Celebrating Japanese Traditions at BAM

11am to 7pm

Held in conjunction with Free First Friday, experience the Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art exhibit and Yuri Kinoshita’s tea house, and explore various traditions of Japanese culture from literary and illustrative to architectural and spiritual. Ongoing, interactive activities will be held all day in the Museum Forum and Auditorium.
Free

11am – 3pm: Artist installation of Shinpu (Fresh Breeze), Woven Tea House with Yuri Kinoshita

4 – 4:30pm: Q & A with Yuri Kinoshita

4:30 – 5pm: Redmond Poet Laureate Jeannine Hall Gailey will read poems on Japanese folk tales and culture from her second book, She Returns to the Floating World, accompanied by an art show by Tacoma artist Michaela Eaves, with sketches created for the poems.

5 – 6pm: Jeannine Hall Gailey will lead a workshop on two Japanese poetic forms, haiku and haibun. The artist will read work from classical Japanese poets like Basho and participants will have a chance to write their own haiku and haibun. No experience necessary. Recommended for teens and adults.

6 – 7pm: Amanda Lien will demonstrate the process of creating Manga illustrations, similar to lessons she teaches in her Saturday Manga class at Museo Art Academy in downtown Issaquah.