The International Festival of Haiku, Constantza, 22th-29th of May, 2009

CONSTANTZA HAIKU SOCIETY - ROMANIA AND JAPAN EMBASSY FROM BUCHAREST

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

THE SCHOOL INSPECTORATE CONSTANTZA, THE CULTURAL DIRECTION OF THE DISTRICT CENTER CONSTANTZA, THE CULTURAL DISTRICTIT FOR THE CULTURE, CULTS AND NATIONAL HERITAGE, WRITERS’UNION-ROMANIA (DOBROGEA DISTRICT), UNIVERSITIES: „ANDREI ŞAGUNA”, „SPIRU HARET”-TERRITORIAL CENTER CONSTANTZA, „OVIDIUS”, „TOMIS”, KINDERGARDENS, SCHOOLS, LYCEES, SCHOOLS GROUPS, CULTURALS CENTERS, MUSEUMS (MUNICIPAL AREA, IN DISTRICT, AND IN THE OTHER TOWNS)

Invites you to participate in The International Festival of Haiku which will develop in Constantza, in the period 22th-29th of May, 2009, in the educational project, with a cultural and artistic impact: ROMANIAN-JAPANESE INTERCULTURALITY, by theme: HAIKU IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD-WILD LYRIC, an event organized on the occasion of 50 YEARS FROM THE RELATIONSHIP REFRESH OF THE ROMANIAN-JAPANESE DIPLOMACY (September 1959-2009) and JAPAN DANUBE-FRIENDSHIP YEAR 2009 (AUSTRIA, BULGARIA, HUNGARY, ROMANIA, 1st January-31st December).

The calendar of the activities will comprise: in the first 4 days: seminars, communications (10-12 slides), debates, book exhibitions, of haiga, Power Point sights (lyrical texts), hearings: classic and folk Japanese-Romanian music; workshops of creation, and ikebana demostrations, book presentations, ginko trips, haiku and haiga competition, (dead line 1 May) with a receiving term of the texts and titles of communications as well as of the books to be presented and launched on 1st May , 2009.

Option: 4 days of trips at the Monasters and Museums of Constantza and Dobrodgea district and the Danube Delta. Accomodation at Hotel Saguna** (2 bed by room, shower in hall) - Mamaia, by 7.5 euro single and 10 euro double room by day; lunch and dinner at Colegiul „Constantin Brătescu”:, constantza, 5 euro by day; Hotel *** Parc - Mamaia (tel 0241/831720 www.hotel-parc.ro), single 23 euro +1 taxes/double room 30 euro+ 1 taxes for ; lunch and dinner:18 euro, by day, breackfast included.

We will be very honoured to have you among the participants.

For other pieces of information you may use:

tel. 0341/408421;

0723/230273;

0241/695143;

0341/806982;

laura.vaceanu@yahoo.com;

mnt_flora_alexandra@yahoo.com;

The Haiku Society Staff in Constantza