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 strangers, impressing me and all people lucky enough to interact with them with their enthusiasm, commitment and positive energy.
B) Haiku were written in Turkish, Bangladeshi, Italian, Spanish, French, and Japanese making the polyglotism of the Cherry Hill community impressive indeed.
C) People embraced the Festival’s purpose and wrote many haiku of an environmental ilk!
D) An enormously good time was had by all!
Over 300 total haiku were written through the course of the festival, and a sampling of them are available below for your viewing enjoyment! Thanks to Sustainable Cherry Hill and our amazing Agents of Haiku for a lovely day of celebration!
If you want a complete set of photos, check out the Flickr album HERE!
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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!