This year the Athens Science Festival welcomes the workshop:
Physics and Haikou poetry // Thursday 7 April 2016, 16:00-17:45
Can we describe the physical phenomena with lyrics? And how much can we squeeze in 17 syllables?
Haiku (俳句) is a type of epigrammatic poetry born about five centuries ago in Japan. It is written in three lines which have 5-7-5 syllables respectively. From the beginning of the 20th century it started spreading in the West. Today there should be no country or language on earth where haiku isn’t written. The meaning of haiku: with the fewest possible words, to express the most of meanings and messages.
Discover the Japanese Poetry Haiku and try to create your own poems, inspired by various science topics, while discussing all your inquiries with two physicists and two poets.
The haiku physics and poetry workshop is organised by:
Christos Toumanidis: poet, researcher and anthologist of greek Haiku. He appeared in literature in 1978, with the poetry collection “Astathmita” (Impoderable). He was one of the students of the acknowledged poet Yannis Ritsos. He has published 6 poetry collections, literary works and essays.
George Primpas: born in Kallithea of Attica in 1962, where he still lives. He studied Physics and is an amateur litterateur and photographer. Since 2010 he collaborates with the literature magazine “24Grammata: (24 letters).
Vasilis Konstantoudis: physicist, works at NCSR Demokritos. Sometimes he likes to raise his head from his desk and computer and look outside the window.
Anna Christodoulou: SciCo project leader, studied Physics in Athens and started working as a science communicator after qualifying as a finalist in FameLab competition in 2007.
