Haiku for Lower East Side History Month!
May is Lower East Side History Month, and to that end a host of chalking activity was occurring on the opening weekend due to #chalkLES, a multi-organization effort to write historical tidbits on the streets of the Lower East Side. The organizer of #chalkLES (and generally amazing LES mover-and-shaker), Ryan Gilliam, invited Guerilla Haiku to add some more chalkdust to the scene. To which we resoundingly said YES! On the eve of our Saturday frolics, I decorated my beloved Tenement Museum with haiku inspired by its work and mission. But the day truly began in Seward Park where the melting pot...
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 MoreIntroducing Hands Inc.
Hands Inc. does serious work. Seriously awesome work. They are committed to the city of Orange, New Jersey. Committed to its thriving on every level; arts, education, environment. They are community-building movers and shakers at the deepest level. April 14th is their Place-making Event, a yearly bash that allows them to bring their community together and directly showcase their work. …And Guerilla Haiku is going to be featured in this year’s Event! After my visit to their incredible loft-of-an-office in downtown Orange, NJ, to discuss Guerilla Haiku with their Outreach...
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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!