Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Reading Performance.
Tanka reading performance oveseas.
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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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Feb. 24, Appeared on a radio program, "Tanka Time", of FM TAMAN. Did some tanka reading while playing background music. With Ms. Yoko Tamaki, President of KURENAI TANKA KAI. |
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Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. "Tanka Reading & Talk Gathering" at Miyako Catholic Church. After the appearance on FM TAMAN, I flew to Miyakojima Island to host "Tanka Reading & Talk Gathering" at Miyako Catholic Church. Though it was the eve of the Miyako's culturally important grave-keeping event, many audience came to the gathering. Their comments were very heart-warming and I was very much encouraged. |
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I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Ms. Setsuko Ishimine and everyone came to the gathering. Ms. Ishimine, my close associate of a tanka group, "KOKORO NO HANA", living in Miyakojima Island, made lots of efforts to host this gathering. Miyako Catholic Church with beautiful hibiscus in Februrary. |
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Feb. 25, Radio program recording session at FM Miyako. Although it was rather a busy schedule, I attended the recording session of "KANASU MIYAKO" at 9:00 a.m. on the day after I flew in to Miyako. I really enjoyed the talk with Mr. Jun Yonaha, the DJ of the program, and tanka reading. It was a meaningful time for me. |
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Mr. Yonaha, thank you very much for your everluation on my reading performance! With Mr. Jun Yonaha, DJ of FM Miyako, and Ms. Yoko Tamaki. |
Monday, February 25, 2013
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1 Nov. 29, This is a brief report of the 7th International Tanka Festival 2012 hosted by the Japan Tanka Poets' Society held at Shonan Village Centre in Kanagawa Pref. Mr. Shiro Akiba, the Chairman of the Japan Tanka Poets' Society, making a welcome speech at the opening. |
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Mr. Arthur Binard, Poet and a lecturer of the festival, delivered a keynote. |
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Having Mr. Takayuki Saigusa as the moderator, the panelists, Mr. Arthur Binard, Ms. Sawako Akiyama, and Ms. Sawako Nakagawa had a vigorous discussion about translating Japanese short poem, including Tanka, into English. Opinions, questions and on-target answeres were presented, and it was a very fruitful discussion. |
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"Tanka Reading in Mother Tongues" Together with Ms. Heera M. Woodman, a Japanese culture & literature fancier, a British living in Japan, I performed reading of some pieces from "Man-yo-shu", and from my recent works. |
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At the social gathering after the Festival. With Ms. Heera M. Woods and Ms. Sieglinda Matsuo. |
Thursday, November 29, 2012
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