‘Children smile 400 times a day on average, adults 15 times. Children laugh 150 times a day, adults 6 times per day. Children play between 4 to 6 hours a day, adults only 20 minutes a day. What’s happened?’ (Robert Holden) Quoted from the Bank of I.D.E.A.S Newsletter (Australia)
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The first sounds in the very first CBN workshop were musical as well as magic – Senegalese drums played for us by our friends Basse and his brother. Music has always been part of what we do. Bach played on cello and violin for children from Red Hill informal settlement. Absolute freedom to create their
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Quote by Anne Herbert. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” ⇢
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On Monday 24th September (which is a public holiday for Heritage Day in South Africa), CNB held a very successful workshop at Butterfly Centre in Stanford. Nearly sixty CBN children entertained ten visiting German Rotarians from Rottweil who came to see what we do. Report and photograph from facilitator Nyasha Makwarimba who is part of
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The Theme: Our Heritage. The San people of Africa. There will be four workshops in this series, which form a unit in our Toolbox. They could be presented as a two (or even three) day workshop, or as four shorter workshops, as we are doing now. Dates: Saturday 8th and Saturday 15th September The Aim:
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The Theme: Our Heritage. The San people of Africa. There will be four workshops in this series, which form a unit in our Toolbox. They could be presented as a two (or even three) day workshop, or as four shorter workshops, as we are doing now. The Aim: By this stage, the children who attend
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We have been getting to know each other during the Winter Workshops in Stanford and the feeling was mutual. We like working together. The only sad thing is that the Matrics we have been working with will be graduating with, we hope, flying colours, and flying off to other things. We hope some of them
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Workshops with a heritage theme Saturday Stories: On Saturday 8th September Saturday Stories: On Saturday 15th September Heritage Day Celebration on Monday 24 September Our Saturday Stories Workshops will start, as usual, at 9.30 at Butterfly Centre, with a snack and a hot drink. The workshop begins at 10.00 there is room for 10 children
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Change happens. Usually it is uncomfortable, but it happens anyway. So it is with regret that we say goodbye to three loyal board members from Rotary Newlands – our Chair, Roy Zazeraj and supporting members Kenny van Aardt and Mike Walwyn. Being a member of a board is usually a spur-of-the-moment thing. Somebody asks you
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For over two years now, Chantel Oosthuysen has guarded the financial battlements of CBN, fought off the invasions of internet banking complications, written down everything the board members said at their meetings and generally kept our administration on track. It is hard to imagine how we will manage all that without her help, but we
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We already have a splendid, eager, hard-working team of teenagers – ably led by Nyasha Makwarimba, who has worked with CBN for well over a year now. Now we have an official Teen Team of teenagers who have volunteered to help at workshops. Each has specialized interests: Nash Makwarimba General help in advance with admin
We have always believed – and said publicly – that CBN must stick to what it does. That is to work with children of 10,11 and 12 who can read, but don’t. Children who come from book-deprived backgrounds who are hungry, really hungry, for the power of imagination that books can bring. But what to
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The Winter Workshops in Stanford – three days of workshop and an additional three mornings of books and song – have been, a tremendous success. Day One featured bitter cold, torrential rain and (later) wind, cloud, sun, sleet and hail. Would the children come? Should we cancel the workshop? Well, the sun shone for the
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CBN has run a regular series of 7 Saturday workshops from the beginning of March and these have proved not only popular, but also very productive. We have a group of regulars who are there rain or shine, but a growing number of children who have heard what we do – and want to be
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Our website is an important tool to communicate and record what we do. Computer difficulties can get in the way of that! But we now have a brand new Mac sitting on the desk, as a result of a gift by Penny and William Louw on behalf of Penny’s late mother, Catherine Sanders. When the
Theme: Music and Story. Music and Books Dates: Monday 2 July to Wednesday 4 July Sat 7 July Wed 18 July (Mandela Day) Sat 21 July Frid 27 July (CBN AGM) Venue: Butterfly Centre We are holding a free three-day workshop with Stanford and Die Kop children who have be attending workshops on the excitement
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During 2018, our colleague, Janine van Rooy-Overmeyer (Blaq Pearl) held two extremely successful workshops in Tafelsig (Mitchell’s Plain). We hope Janine will be able to take this further next year if her other heavy commitments permit. Janine has worked with CBN for five years now and is one of the children’s favourites. She brings her
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CBN, in connection with NEAD, held a workshop facilitated by Janine van Rooi (Blaq Pearl) at Freedom Park Community Hall from 9am to 12 pm The report is on its way, but these pictures speak a thousand words (each!) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1myTUZjuprxKZbOoLrKhQT6CKiFNPMb75
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Vuyo has assisted with workshops many times, but earlier this year, she asked if she could bring some children from her community at Die Kop, halfway between Stanford and Gansbaai. Of course. But when their transport failed to arrive on a busy Saturday morning, six children, and Vuyo ran into Stanford (a distance of about
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Monday 10th April saw twenty children assembling in the Butterfly Centre in Stanford – early, as usual, with their community facilitator Vuyokasi Siza and helper Patricia. It was the third in our CBN training workshops in Stanford to complete Vuyo’s inauguration as a fully-fledged CBN Workshop Hero. She passed with flying colours. This means that
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