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2008 Origami Peace Tree Festival Romania
"Let's make the paper come to life"
Liceul Teoretic "Miron Costin" Iasi
International Art Partnership "Peace Tree"
Co-Organizers:
A.D.I.S.E. NGO (Association for Social and Educational Development and Intervention)
The Host:
Liceul Teoretic "Miron Costin" Iasi
Dates:
3rd-9th of November, 2008
Location:
Liceul Teoretic "Miron Costin" Iasi
Contact Person:
Ms. Loredana Tara
E-mail: origamitara@yahoo.com
The results of the International Haiku Contest
"One Thousand Cranes", Romania 2008
93 participants, 32 countries from all the continents (except Antarctica): USA (15), Croatia (11), Romania (11), Brazil (5), Canada (5), Argentina (4), France (4), New Zealand (4), Australia (2), Belgium (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Germany (2), Japan (2), Serbia (2), Spain (2), Sweden (2), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United Kingdom (2), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Finland (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Kosovo Republic (1), Mexico (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Switzerland (1), Vietnam (1).
Mrs. Viorica DOBRE, Headmaster of The "Miron Costin" Highschool Iasi,
Mr. Aleksandr LEVASHOV, Founder of The "International Art Partnership",
and Mr. Eduard TARA, Member of The "Romanian Haiku Society"
announce the winning poems of the International Haiku Contest "One Thousand Cranes" Romania 2008 which were selected by the jury made up of the Founders of the Romanian Kukai Monthly Contest
Mr. Corneliu Traian ATANASIU (Jury President)
and Mrs. Magdalena DALE (Jury Member)
Theme: Origami
| The First Prize | Vasile MOLDOVAN Bucharest, Romania |
Listening to the flight of a thousand white paper cranes... a blind war veteran |
| The Second Prize | Ferris GILLI Marietta, USA |
her first paper swan — a bit of milkweed floss caught inside the wing's fold |
| The Third Prize | Oana Aurora POSNAIES Galati, Romania |
old men gathering: still folding and unfolding origami cranes |
| Honourable Commendation | Simona DOBRESCU-CRACIUN Constanta, Romania |
origami cranes going away with the wind – a morning prayer |
Theme: Miscellaneous
| The First Prize | Scott MASON Chappaqua, USA |
a long-fallen fir shorn of needles and branches... the glint of a star |
| The Second Prize | Frans TERRYN Kortrijk, Belgium |
Blossoms everywhere. For the first time outdoors with a white cane. |
| The Third Prize | Bruce ROSS Bangor, USA |
mid-autumn stillness a lonely young crow's wing tips reddened with the light |
| Honourable Commendation | Vasile MOLDOVAN Bucharest, Romania |
Rowing on the Black Sea – before my eyes and behind me the shine of Milky Way |
| Honourable Commendation | Boris NAZANSKY Zagreb, Croatia |
morning on the pond a cloud and watser lily touching each other |
Origami Peace Tree Prize
The Organizing Committee of the Contest made up ofMrs. Viorica DOBRE, Headmaster of The "Miron Costin" Highschool Iasi,
Mr. Aleksandr LEVASHOV, Founder of The "International Art Partnership",
and Mr. Eduard TARA, Member of The "Romanian Haiku Society"
decided to select three poems for the special prizes.
| Origami Peace Tree Prize | William J. HIGGINSON Summit, USA |
origami frog: what old pond is he hoping to find in the dusk? |
| Origami Peace Tree Prize | Rosa CLEMENT Manaus, Brazil |
recycled paper the origami heron becoming a swan |
| Origami Peace Tree Prize | Jim KACIAN Winchester, USA |
the rainy season-- a paper dragonfly slowly unfolds |