Guerilla Haiku falls in love with Cleveland…
…And the love is mutual! At the invitation of the Cleveland Public Theater, Guerilla Haiku made its way to Cleveland for the Party @ Gordon Square on June 8th, 2013, a neighborhood celebration of art and community in the Gordon Square Arts District of Cleveland. What a city! What a weekend of adventures!!! With a host of INCREDIBLE volunteers and the tremendous efforts of the team at the Cleveland Public Theater, Guerilla Haiku transformed the neighborhood into a colorful, contagious, and inspiring canvas of words. Our first attempt at creating an indoor installation was a rousing...
Read MoreHaiku Reflections on Bike JC Event!
Sun. Brilliant. Bright A host of friendly bikers Rolling through our town. Breeze off the Hudson Neighbors cheering us from stoops As we coast on by. Music awaits us Along with fresh, orange mango Juice drips down our chins. Officially Spring Now that my bike’s all tuned up Thank you Bike JC!! New places & new friends - Getting to know my town - NY as Backdrop New places & new friends - Getting to know my town - NY as Backdrop ghm575 4144 days
Read MoreGuerilla Haiku Goes to Cleveland!
The Cleveland Public Theater (CPT) is one of those regional theaters that fully embrace their commitment to serving the needs of their community. And the Gordon Square Arts District is the multi-organization consortium (including CPT) that is revitalizing the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland. When Executive Artistic Director, Raymond Brobgan, contacted Guerilla Haiku in February to invite us to their yearly Party in Gordon Square to engage their Party-goers in Haiku-ing, I jumped at the chance. What better effort to support and celebrate but the coming together of a...
Read MoreSamuel Gompers HS Garden Launch, May 31st, 2013
Hot day. 90 degrees in the shade. And there was very little shade to be found in this relentless school parking lot in Mott Haven, BX. But there we all were, a group of tenacious teenagers from Gompers HS known as the Green Team under the advisement of their teacher, Angela Mazza, me, and a host of other students, teachers and community members to bear witness to the opening of an entirely vertical garden in the school parking lot. The young men and women hoisted felt planters to different levels on the chain link fence, adding color and green to the barren space. And we saw a garden happen,...
Read MoreSustainable Cherry Hill Earth Day Festival goes Guerilla!
Sustainable Cherry Hill organizes a yearly Earth Day Festival gathering community organizations, schools and residents together to celebrate their community and talk about issues of sustainability. Guerilla Haiku was invited by organizers this Saturday to train a group of high school volunteers to get fest-goers writing haiku about Earth Day. Many exciting things happened; A) The high school Agents of Haiku fully embraced their mission (to get EVERYONE to write at least one haiku) and approached as many people as they could find thereby initiating conversations with and between 100s of...
Read MoreGreen Schools Alliance NYC 2013
In 2007 a consortium of schools on the Upper East Side got together to DO SOMETHING as school communities to protect the environment. 6 years later over 2500 schools are members of the Green Schools Alliance, making an international impact spearheaded by students, teachers and parents across the globe. Inspiring, no? The Lycee Francais de NY hosted this year’s Green Schools Alliance Earth Day Conference with sponsor, Veggiecation, an amazing organization dedicated to nutrition education for youth. Guerilla Haiku made an appearance to get people writing about the themes of the...
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The Haiku Mistress
Actor and educator, Caley Vickerman, discovered haiku in 6th grade and they remain to this day a favorite method of expression; simple, precise and immeasurably powerful. It became her fervent wish to create events that celebrated haiku (and humanity). Thus the Guerilla Haiku Movement was born! …And the Haiku Mistress gratefully continues to celebrate! 
We are the Guerilla Haiku Movement; a cadre of artists, fun-lovers, and fools that use sidewalk chalk and the ancient Japanese poetic tradition of Haiku to tell our stories and the stories of our communities inside of one moment. Check out our events page to join us in a city near you!