Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Reading Performance.
Tanka reading performance oveseas.
In the evening of May 1st, California time, I am going to participate in Zoom Poetry Meeting, which is presided at by Ms. Kathabela Wilson. I and Ms. Deborah P. Kolodji will recite Tanka & Haiku sequence "Distance 2020". I wrote English Tanka, and Ms. Kolodji did English Haiku.
I cannot post this sequence for the time being because it is unpublished work, but I will post it on my website after it is published in the next edition of poetry magazine "Basho". It is a great honor for me that Mr. Clayton Beach, the editor of "Basho" highly praised our sequence.
It will be my first experience to recite in a Zoom meeting, but I would like to do my best to be able to open a new door of my reading activity under the current condition.
Friday, May 1, 2020
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Oct., 10th, I was invited to the opening event for "the 30th Japanese Culture Month". It was a very honorable occasion for me. With Mr. Masato Watanabe, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Japan in Bulgaria. |
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I was given an opportunity to present Japanese-English bilingual tanka reading, and was very happy because they pleased my performance very much. |
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Friday, October 11, 2019
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Oct. 8th, I performed Japanese-English tanka reading at a literature event held at Sofia City Library, Bulgaria. |
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I tried my best to deliver message from soul to soul, because both English nor Japanese are not the audience's mother tongue. I was very happy when the people gathered there were moved to tears, and gave me wonderful comments. |
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Ms. Iliyana Stoyanova made opening remarks. |
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019
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On the last day of ANIMUSIC Organological Congress2019, I presented Japanese and English tanka reading. |
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The venue was a hotel & restaurant "Pousada Conventode Belmonte", a tasteful masonry building. I was very happy because I was allowed to use this wonderful facility, where the lighting and sound rebibration are beautifully designed. |
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The artists from many countries such as Lithuania, Israel, Italy, France, Russia, Netherland, and the host country Portugal, gave me moving comments. I would like to keep them in mind and continue my performance from now on. |
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A photographer of the municipal government came, and I felt very much obliged. I extend my sincere gratitude toward those who listened my presentation with tears in their eyes, for many of them Japanese or English was not their mother tongue. I will conitinue making efforts to deliver heart-to-heart message through my performance. |
Monday, September 30, 2019
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