RPAA September Event: Find your inner Zen

RPAA September Event Find your inner Zen ~ Haiku Workshop Flying Dolphin Studio 6660 North Damen Avenue Friday, September 28 // 6:30-8:30 PM Front door is located on the side of the building – buzz unit 3E, top floor! Join Rogers Park Arts Alliance on Friday evening, September 28 at Flying Dolphin Studio for a fun and interactive writing workshop. Relax and enjoy the art of Haiku poetry while creating several of your own personal Haiku to experience the legacy. Hot tea will be served – and Flying Dolphin Studio is BYOB friendly! You might ask what does a Haiku look like – A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression. The best-known Japanese haiku is Basho's "old pond": ??????????? ????????????????? (transliterated into 17 hiragana) furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto (transliterated into romaji) This separates into on as: fu-ru-i-ke ya (5) ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mu (7) mi-zu-no-o-to (5) Translated: old pond frog leaps in water's sound en.wikipedia.org/wiki/haiku for more info on this creative tradition!