Here and Now, Discover Mississauga and More

Here and Now, Discover Mississauga and More will be an eBook that we hope to create from two haiku walking tours and three online haiku workshops. One of 2022 MAC MicroGrant Winning Programs, Everyone is welcome to join us no matter where you live.

This new project is aimed to build creative and resilient communities through haiku workshops; you can join one or all of activities, funded by Mississauga Arts Council’s MicroGrant Program through the support of RAMA Gaming House – Charitable Gaming at City of Mississauga.

You will have the opportunities to discover various artists and get connected, enjoy the diversity, dynamics and beauty of Mississauga and Nature, and create your own artistic work and learn how to edit. Selected work will be published in the eBook: Here and Now, Discover Mississauga and More.

The schedule of the project with links to details and each registration:

• Two Haiku Walking Tours (June 25, July 23)
  • June 25 (RiverWood Garden)
  • July 23 (TD Mosaic 2022 – South Asian Festival Celebration Square)

• Three Online Haiku Workshops + Editing (July 9, July 30, Aug 13)
  • each focus on different techniques, skills and writing exercises
  • Please feel free to join all of them. You are welcome to bring your own to share

• eBook reading party with participants from the above workshops and special guests (Oct 6)

Workshop leader: Anna Yin who has instructed 100 Poetry Alive workshops and authored five poetry collections and a book of translation.  Anna was Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and Ontario representative for the League of Canadian Poets (2013-2017). Some haiku from Anna Yin

eBook Guest Editor: Hans Jongman. Hans has authored five books of Haibun, 3 book of haiku, was editor for an editor for Sweeping Leaves, an international haiku anthology (2000)