To make the essential idea of Ikebana and Haiku poems clear, the arts were demonstrated in a live performance. At the opening ceremony six members of the Austrian Haiku Association each stood next to an Ikebana arrangement of their own choice and in turn recited their own Haiku poems which expressed early summer 初夏 „shoka“: Paul Dinter, Mario Freingruber, Ingrid Hoffmann, Rosemarie Schulak, Petra Sela, and Traude Veran.