Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Reading Performance.
Tanka reading performance oveseas.
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September 25, 19:00. Here is the report of the tanka reading session held at Centre Culturel Italien, in Quartier latin, Paris, started at 7:00p.m., on Sept., 25. The pieces of poems selected for this session were; 7 pieces from Manyo-shu with the theme of Autumn, 10 pieces of my works, and 5 pieces each of Mr. Kyo Hoshino and Ms. Yoko Tamaki, who attended this session with me. All the pieces were presented in Japanese together with French and Italian translations. This event was introduced in their website. |
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Culture Central Italian (イタリア文化センター)のウェブサイトでもご紹介いただきました。 >>click here to move to Centre Culturel Italien website. |
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Mr. Antonio Francia, the Director of the Center, helped us with the French & Italian verisons. I am more than happy to have had his cooperation. |
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Many people gathered at the event - there were some people who never experienced Tanka before, and others, who came to the session we had last fall, joined us again with their friends. I would like to continue my efforts to offer opportunities where many people reach the charm in Tanka |
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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August 16, 2013 Participated in HNA event, hosted in Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA, and performed Haiku rading. This coming Sunday, Aug. 18th, will be "Tanka Sunday", and workshops and presentations are scheduled for all day long. |
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August 14 to 17, 2013 HNA (Haiku Northern America) participants. |
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August 18, 2013 At "Tanka Sunday", the last day of HNA event, I performed tanka reading with Ms. Margaret Chula, the president of Tanka Society of America. We selected mainly from Ms. Chula's recently published bilingual anthology, "Just This", for which I worked on translation into Japanese. We also added some other works each of us created recently. |
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Bilingual tanka anthology, "WA". I selected 51 poems from Ms. Margaret Chula's anthology, "JUST THIS", added Japanese translation to them. |
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Augst 18, 2013 Tanka Sunday participants. Tanka Sunday was held after HNA. |
Sunday, August 18, 2013
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May 20, 17:00. Appeared on "Musasino On-Line", a live broadcast of Musashino FM. Performed reading of my own tanka published in the Feb. Issue of "Tanka Shinbun" of Irino-Sha, the Apr. Issue of "Tanka" of Kadokawa, and the Jun. Issue of "Tanka O-Rai" of Nagarami-Shobo. I really enjoyed the talk with Mr. Tatsuhiko Nishi, the host of the program, just as I did I was in the program twice in the past. Mr. Nishi, thank you very much! |
Saturday, May 4, 2013
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March 21. 10:30 Central Coast, NSW, Peninsula Community Centre. Performed tanka reading for more than 30 students of community college. I was very glad to see the audience showing interest in tanka. |
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During my visit, I did five reading performance - three sessions in Sydney and two in Adelaide - together with Ms. Beverley George, an Australian tanka poet and my friend living north of Sydney, on the central Coast. It was a busy schedule, but I was happy because many people listened to our reading. Photo on the left and one below, at Hornsby Library. |
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For our bilingual reading performance, we selected 21 pieces based on the season over there, seven pieces from MANYO-SHU, seven from Ms. Beverley George's work and other seven from my work. *Poems from MANYO-SHU were translated into Englsh by Prof. Hideo Levy of Hosei Univ. I translated Ms. Beverley George's tanka into Japanese, and Ms. Beverley George helped English translation of my tanka.。 |
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March 22, At Roseville Wellness Group Unit 3. One of the audience, who saw our performance in the past, liked my performance in total (tone of voice, background music sound, body language such as soft & slow hand movement, and the color of KIMONO) and purchased my tanka reading CD. I was very glad about this because I have been doing this activity to deliver the beauty of Japanese tanka to the world. |
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March 24, At Burnside Public Library. Wonderful performers appeared in this joint presentation. |
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Approximately 50 to 60 people gathered. Thank you very much for coming! |
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March 26, Performed reading before the audience of lifelong study Philosophy Group. |
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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